5. When howling winds, and beating rain, The tender thought on thee shall dwell. 6. Each lonely scene shall thee restore; THE END. BY SAM. JOHNSON & GEO. STEEVENS, AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS, UPON CYMBELINE, WRITTEN BY WILL. SHAKSPERE. -SIC ITUR AD ASTRA. VIRG. LONDON: Printed for, and under the Direction of, JOHN BELL, British Library, STRAND, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES. M DCC LXXXVII. ANNOTATIONS UPON CYMBELINE. Line 1. ACT I. You do not meet a man, but frowns: our BLOODS No more obey the heavens, than our courtiers', Still seem, as does the king's.] We do not meet a man but frowns; our bloods our countenances, which, in popular speech, are said to be regulated by the temper of the blood-no more obey the laws of heaven-which direct us to appear what we really are -than our courtiers':—that is, than the bloods of our courtiers; but our bloods, like theirs-still seem, as doth the king's. JOHNSON. In the Yorkshire Tragedy, 1619, which has been attributed to Shakspere, blood appears to be used for inclination: "For 'tis our blood to love what we are for bidden." Again, in K. Lear, act iv. sc. 2. -Were it my fitness. "To let these hands obey my blood." In K. Henry VIII. act iii. sc. 4. is the same thought: "subject to your countenance, glad, or sorry, "As I saw it inclin'd." STEEVENS. I would propose to make this passage clear by a very slight alteration, only leaving out the last letter: You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers Still seem, as does the king. That is, Still look as the king does; or, as he expresses it a little differently afterwards: -wear their faces to the bent Of the king's look. TYRWHITT. 28. You speak him far.] i. e. you praise him extensively. STEEVENS. 29. I DO EXTEND him, sir, within himself;] I extend him within himself: my praise, however extensive, is within his merit. JOHNSON. . Perhaps this passage may be somewhat illustrated by the following lines in Troilus and Cressida, act iii. -no man is the lord of any thing, 66 "'Till he communicate his parts to others: Το 3 |