TWO NOBLE KINSMEN. Coleridge, Table Talk, ed. 2, p. 200,-"I have no doubt whatever that the first act and the first scene of the second act of the Two Noble Kinsmen are Shakespeare's." i. 1, init. Is the epithalamium broken off by the entrance of the Queens? It seems unfinished; and it is more natural, I think, that it should be interrupted. So of Paris's speech at the tomb, Romeo and Juliet, v, 3. Ib., "He tumbled down upon his Nemean hide, And own'd his sinews thaw'd. Oh, grief and time, 1 Queen. Oh, I hope some god, Some god will put his mercy in your manhood,” &c. Arrange, 1 Queen. "He tumbled down upon his Nemean hide, And own'd his sinews thaw'd. Oh, grief and time, fearful consumers, you Some god" &c. Oh, I hope some god, The metrical pause after thaw'd is required by the transition in the subject (read the entire context), as, on the other hand, in Macbeth, i. 2, rearranged by me thus in S. V., Art. xvi.,— "Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky, the sense requires us to continue the verse after cold. (Note, by the bye, on Norweyan, that in Hamlet, ii. 2, fol., p. 260, col. 2, Norway is throughout written Norwey.) Ib., just below. We should arrange, I think,-[so Mr. Dyce.-Ed.] 2 Queen. "And pray for me, your soldier.— Honour'd Hippolyta, Most dreaded Amazonian," &c. Ib. Knight, p. 127, col. 2. Arrange, I think,— Theseus. "And were good kings when living. 1 Queen. And I will give you comfort, It is true: To give your dead lords graves: the which to do Presents itself to th' doing: Now 't will take form." And that work now 1 1 As Mr. Dyce prints now between brackets, I conclude it is not in the old copy. This makes for Walker's arrangement.-Ed. Ib., near the end. Arrange thus, or nearly thus,— "Thus dost thou still make good The tongue o' th' world. 2 Queen. And earn'st a deity Equal with Mars. Queen. If not above him; for Thou, being but mortal," &c. 2, why am I bound Till? 3, ແ By any generous bond to follow him Follows his tailor, haply so long until the flower that I would pluck And put between my breasts (0 then but beginning Till she had such another." That we, more than his Perithous, possess The high throne in his heart. Emi. I am not against your faith; yet I continue mine." "I say again, I love; and, in loving her, maintain Arrange and write, "I say again, I love her; and, in loving her, maintain " &c. 2, near the end,— This is an offer'd opportunity I durst not wish for." From Turne, quod optanti &c. 3, te First, I saw him; I, seeing, thought he was a goodly man ; " &c. Read, "And, seeing," &c. I could for each word give a cuff! my stomach Not reconcil'd by reason; i.e., "if my stomach were not " &c. 5, "Thou doughty duke, all hail! all hail, sweet ladies! Thes. This is a cold beginning." I know not whether it is necessary to observe, that there is a play on hail, as in Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2,— "All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day. Prin. Fair, in all hail, is foul, as I conceive." Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Old English Drama, 1831, p. 34, "Andelocia. Brother, all hail. Shadow. There's a rattling salutation." And his fat spouse, that welcome to their cost His, surely; if it be not too obvious 2 to need noticing. 6. Arrange and write, Pal. "And to say true, I stole 't. Do I pinch you? Arc. Is't not too heavy?" &c. No. 6, Oh, Duke Theseus, The goodly mothers that have groan'd for these, If your vow stand, shall curse me and my beauty," &c. Both sound (the Fletcherian rhythm especially) and sense require "that ever lov'd them." iv. 3, near the end,- desire to eat with her, carve her, drink with her, and still among intermingle your petition of grace and acceptance into her favour." Among is not unfrequently used per se., Jonson, Elegy, Gifford, vol. viii. p. 407, 2 Obvious as it is, it has escaped, I fancy, all the editors. With regard to welcome and informs, I have followed the MS., being in doubt whether Walker preferred the singular or plural here. -Ed. |