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[Exit.

To be so anger'd with another letter.

Jul. Nay, would I were so anger'd with the same!
O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
Injurious wasps! to feed on such sweet honey,
And kill the bees, that yield it, with your stings!
I'll kiss each several paper for amends,
And, here is writ-kind Julia;-unkind Julia!
As in revenge of thy ingratitude,

I throw thy name against the bruising stones,
Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain.
Look, here is writ-love-wounded Proteus:-
Poor wounded name! my bosom, as a bed,
Shall lodge thee, till thy wound be thoroughly heal'd;
And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss.
But twice, or thrice, was Proteus written down?1
Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away,
Till I have found each letter in the letter,
Except mine own name; that some whirlwind bear

sick to a country exercise, Bid the base: in which some pursue, and others are made prisoners. So that Lucetta would intend, by this, to say, Indeed I take pains to make you a captive to Pro-teus's passion.-He uses the same allusion, in his Venus and Adonis:

"To bid the winds a base he now prepares.”

And, in his Cymbeline, he mentions the game :

Lads more like

"To run the country base." Warburton.

Dr. Warburton is not quite accurate. The game was not called Bid the Base, but the Base. To bid the base means here, I believe, to challenge to a contest. So, in our author's Venus and Adonis : "To bid the wind a base he now prepares,

"And wh'er he run, or fly, they knew not whether." Again, in Hall's Chronicle, fol. 98. b: "The queen marched from York to Wakefield, and bade base to the duke, even before his castle." Malone.

Mr. Malone's explanation of the verb-bid, is unquestionably just. So, in one of the parts of K. Henry VI:

"Of force enough to bid his brother battle." Steevens.

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ragged, fearful, hanging rock, bar row it thence into the raging sea!attis una I re in one line is his name twice writ

orlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

sweet Julia; that I'll tear away;

et I will not, sith so prettily

aples it to his complaining names; will I fold them one upon another;

kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will.

-. Madam, dinner's ready, and your father stays. - Well, let us go.

. What, shall these papers lie, like tell-tales, here? . If you respect them, best to take them up. c. Nay, I was taken up for laying them down: mere they shall not lie, for catching cold.2

2. I see, you have a month's mind to them.3

et here they shall not lie, for catching cold.] That is, as Mr. Iason observes, lest they should catch cold. This mode of exion (he adds) is not frequent in Shakspeare, but occurs in 7 play of Beaumont and Fletcher.

In, in Love's Pilgrimage:

"Stir my horse, for catching cold."

in, in The Pilgrim:

"All her face patch'd, for discovery."

o these I shall add another instance from Barnabie Riche's diers Wishe to Britons Welfare, or Captaine Skill and Captaine 1604, p. 64: "-such other ill disposed persons, being once ssed must be kept with continuall guard, &c. for running away.” ain, in Chapman's version of the first Iliad:

ain, in Tusser's Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, 1586: "Take heed how thou laiest the bane for the rats,

"For poisoning thy servant, thyself, and thy brats." Steevens. I see, you have a month's mind to them.] A month's mind was anniversary, in times of popery; or, as Mr. Ray calls it, a less lemnity, directed by the will of the deceased. There was also year's mind, and a week's mind. See Proverbial Phrases. This appears from the interrogatories and observations against Le clergy, in the year 1552, Inter. 7: "Whether there are any

"Was the month's mind of Sir William Laxton, who died the last month, (July 1556,) his hearse burning with wax, and the morrow mass celebrated, and a sermon preached," &c. Strype's Mem. Vol. III. p. 305. Grey.

A month's mind, in the ritual sense, signifies not desire, or inclination, but remembrance; yet I suppose, this is the true original of the expression. Johnson.

In Hampshire, and other western counties, for "I can't remember it," they say, "I can't mind it." Blackstone.

at month's minds, and lon

Puttenham, in his Art of Poetry, 1589, chap. 24, speaking of Poetical Lamentations, says, they were chiefly used at the burials of the dead, also longer times:" and in the churchwardens' accompts of St. Helen's in Abingdon, Berkshire, 1558, these month's minds, and the expenses attending them, are frequently mentioned. Instead of month's minds, they are sometimes called month's monuments, and in the Injunctions of K. Edward VI. memories, Injunct. 21. By memories, says Fuller, we understand the Obsequia for the dead, which some say succeeded in the place of the heathen Parentalia.

If this line was designed for a verse, we should read-monthes mind. So, in A Midsummer Night's Dream: "Swifter than the moones sphere.”

Both these are the Saxon genitive case. Steevens.

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-great impeachment to his age, Impeachment, as Mr. M. Mason very justly observes, in this instance signifies reproach or mputation. So, Demetrius says to Helena, in A Midsummer Night's Dream:

"You do impeach your modesty too much,
"To leave the city, and commit yourself

"Into the hands of one, that loves you not." Steevens.

8 Attends the emperor, in his royal court.] Shakspeare has been guilty of no mistake, in placing the emperor's court at Milan, in

Ant. I know it well.

Pant. 'Twere good, I think, your lordship sent him

thither:

There shall he practise tilts and tournaments,
Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen;
And be in eye of every exercise,

Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth.

Ant. I like thy counsel; well hast thou advis'd: And, that thou may'st perceive how well I like it, The execution of it shall make known;

Even with the speediest execution

I will despatch him to the emperor's court.

Pant. To-morrow, may it please you, Don Alphonso,

With other gentlemen of good esteem,
Are journeying to salute the emperor,

And to commend their service to his will.

Ant. Good company; with them shall Proteus go: And, in good time, now will we break with him.1

Enter PROTEUS.

Pro. Sweet love! sweet lines! sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn:

this play. Several of the first German emperors held their courts there occasionally, it being, at that time, their immediate property, and the chief town of their Italian dominions. Some of them were crowned kings of Italy at Milan, before they received the imperial crown at Rome. Nor has the poet fallen into any contradiction by giving a duke to Milan, at the same time that the emperor held his court there. The first dukes of that, and all the other great cities in Italy, were not sovereign princes, as they afterwards became; but were merely governors, or viceroys, under the emperors, and removeable at their pleasure. Such was the Duke of Milan, mentioned in this play. Mr. M. Mason adds, that " during the wars in Italy, between Francis I, and Charles V, the latter frequently resided at Milan." Steevens.

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" And, in good time, here comes the sweating lord."

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