And after one hour more, 'twill be eleven; A worthy fool!-Motley's the only wear. Jaq. Oworthy fool!-One that hath been a courtier; And fays, if ladies be but young, and fair, They have the gift to know it: and in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder bisket After a voyage, he hath ftrange places cramm'd In mangled forms :-O that I were a fool! Duke Sen. Thou fhalt have one. Jaq. It is my only fuit; 5 Provided, that you weed your better judgments Withal; as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I pleafe; for fo fools have: They most must laugh: And why, fir, muft they fo? Doth Only fuit ;] Suit means petition, I believe, not drefs. The poet meant a quibble. So act v. rel, but out of your fuit. STEEVENS. JOHNSON. "Not out of your appa He, that a fool doth very wifely hit, Befides that the third verfe is defective one whole foot in measure, the Doth very foolishly, although he fmart, Even by the fquandring glances of the fool. To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine. Duke Sen. Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do. Jaq. What, for a counter, would I do, but good? Duke Sen. Most mischievous foul fin, in chiding fin: For thou thyself haft been a libertine, As fenfual as the brutish fting itself: 8 And all the emboffed fores and headed evils, the tenour of what Jaques continues to fay, and the reafoning of the paffage, fhew it is no lefs defective in the fenfe. There is no doubt, but the two little monofyllables, which I have fupplied, were either by accident wanting in the manufoript cr by inadvertence were left out. THEOBALD. 7 If not, &c.] Unless men have the prudence not to appear touched with the farcafms of a jefter, they fubject themselves to his power, and the wife man will have his folly anatomised, that is diffected and laid open by the fquandring glances or random shots of a fool. JOHNSON. As fenfual as the brutish fting] Though the brutish fting is capable of a fenfe not inconvenient in this paffage, yet as it is a harth and unusual mode of fpeech, I fhould read the brutish fly. JOHNSON. Who Who can come in, and fay, that I mean her, That fays, his bravery is not on my coft; There then; how then? what then? Let me fee wherein My tongue hath wrong'd him: if it do him right, Then he hath wrong'd himself: if he be free, Why, then, my taxing, like a wild goofe, flies Unclaim'd of any man.-But who comes here? Enter Orlando, with fword drawn. Orla. Forbear, and eat no more.-- Orla. Nor fhalt not, 'till neceffity be ferv'd. Or else a rude defpifer of good manners, That in civility thou feem'ft fo empty? Orla. You touch'd my vein at first. The thorny point 9 Of bare diftrefs hath ta'en from me the fhew Be answered with reason, I must die. Of Smooth civility.] We might read torn with more elegance, but elegance alone will not juftify alteration. JOHNSON. Duke Duke Sen. What would you have? Your gentleness fhall force, More than your force move us to gentleness. Orla. I almoft die for food, and let me have it. Duke Sen. Sit down and feed; and welcome to our table. Orla. Speak you fo gently ?-Pardon me, I pray you; I thought, that all things had been favage here; Or ftern commandment. But whate'er you are, Under the fhade of melancholy boughs, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church; Orla. Then but forbear your food a little while, And take upon command what help we have.] It seems neceffary to read, then take upon demand what help, &c. that is, ask for what we can fupply, and have it. JOHNSON. Limp'd in pure love; 'till he be first suffic'd, Opprefs'd with two weak evils, age and hunger, I will not touch a bit. Duke Sen. Go find him out, And we will nothing wafte till you return. Orla. I thank ye; and be blefs'd for your good comfort! [Exit. Duke Sen. Thou feeft, we are not all alone un happy: This wide and univerfal theatre Prefents more woful pageants, than the scene Jaq. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : Made to his mistress' eye-brow:-Then, a foldier: Even in the cannon's mouth :-And then, the juftice, And 2 Wherein we play in.] Thus the old copy. Mr. Pope more correctly reads, 3 Full of wife fars and modern inftances.] It is remarkable that Shakespeare ufes modern in the double fenfe that the Greeks used xairos, both for recens and abfurdus. WARBURTON. |