Tale, Remedium Luxuriæ,- "This maner of women, that observen chastitee, must be clene in herte as well as in body, and in thought, and mesurable in clothing and in contenance, abstinent in eting and in drinking, in speking and in dede," &c. Ford, &c., Witch of Edmonton, v. 1, towards the end, where the dog-devil says, "Nor will I serve for such a silly soul. I am for greatness now, corrupted greatness, Spenser, Shepheards Calender, Ægl. v. 1. 75,— They must provide for meanes of maintenaunce, Sike worldly sovenance he must for-say." F. Q., B. v. C. ix. St. xxxviii.; so understand,— But that she it with foule abuse did marre ;" &c. 2,-fol. (p. 188, col. 2), "But yet indeede the taller is his daughter." I suspect this is a slip of Shakespeare's pen. The word he had in his thoughts was probably shorter (and so Pope and others), not smaller, which in this sense belongs to later English. 3, "And do not seek to take your change upon you, To bear your griefs yourself, and leave me out;" &c. I have no doubt that Shakespeare wrote charge, and so the second folio reads, teste Steevens. The erratum change for charge occurs frequently in the folio. Vice versa, Taming of the Shrew, iii. 1, near the end, the folio reads,― To charge true rules for old [odd] inventions." Instances in other authors. History of Romeus and Juliet, Var. S., vol. vi. p. 321, 1. 23, By strength of argumentes he charged so my minde, That, though I sought [,] no sure defence my searching thought could finde." Changed. ii. 3, "O what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it!" Was the shirt of Nessus in Shakespeare's mind? 7, embossed sores and beaded1 evils," &c. An old use of evil, still extant in "king's evil.” Ib.,—Arrange rather,— 66 iii. 2, Why, who cries out on pride, that can therein Doth it not flow," &c. 1 I follow Walker's manuscript, though, from his silence, beaded may be a slip of his pen or memory. I suspect it to be the genuine word, though I believe all editions have headed.-Ed. et sqq. This is the old pronunciation of Ind, or rather, as in the folio, Inde.2 Fairfax's Tasso, B. v. St. lii., “ And kill their kings from Egypt unto Inde;” rhyming with mind and inclin'd; and so B. vii. St. lxix.,— finde-Inde-binde. Spenser, Faerie Queene, B. i. C. v. St. iv.,-Ynd (Ind), rhyming with bynd and assynd. And so C. v. St. ii.,-behind-unkind-find-Ynd. Drayton, Polyolbion, Song ii., That from their anchoring bays have travelled to find Large China's wealthy realmes, and view'd the either Inde." Sylvester's Dubartas, ii. ii. ii. ed. 1641, p. 124, col. 1,— "More golden words, than in his crown there shin'd Pearls, diamonds, and other gems of Inde." Carew, ed. Clarke, cxxi. p. 164,— "Go I to Holland, France, or furthest Inde, Ib.,-"I'll rhyme you so" &c.-" it is the right butterwoman's rank to market." Not, I think, rhyme (rime— ranke), on account of the repetition. At any rate, rank3 is wrong. 2 The three earlier folios give Ind and all the rhyming words, throughout this poem and the clown's parody, with the final e, except that the first folio has mind. So, too, the fourth folio in the first couplet; it omits the final e in the others. -Ed. 3 Rank, no doubt, is rank nonsense; so is Grey's conjecture, rant; Hanmer's rate seems to me the genuine word. Even Whiter pays it an involuntary homage, when he explains rank as “the Ib., "I drave my suitor from his mad humour of love to a living humour of madness." Of course loving. Beaumont and Fletcher, Fair Maid of the Inn, v. 3, Moxon, vol. ii. p. 379, col. 1,— "Remember with what tenderness from our childhood We loved together." Nonsense. Lived. History of Romeus and Juliet, Var. S. vol. v. p. 331, 1. 23,—“thy loving breath;" read living [so Mr. Collier's reprint in "Shakespeare's Library."-Ed.], as p. 315, 1. 33, and p. 342, l. 13. The same error occurs somewhere else in the poem. I have noticed two other instances of this confusion in our old dramatists (I think in Massinger or Jonson, or one in either), which I neglected to set down. Merry Devil of Edmonton, Dodsley, vol. v. p. 238, end of a scene, "Pursue the project, scholar, what we can do To help endeavour, join our lives thereto." Certainly wrong; loves, I imagine. Shirley, Gentleman of Venice, i. 1, vol. v. p. 9, Gifford and Dyce,— "I'll live, I will, and rather than not be Reveng❜d on thy estate, I will eat roots, Only on barley-water; think on 't yet." Live. The correction seems almost too obvious to need noticing. jog-trot rate with which butterwomen uniformly travel one after another in their road to market:" one after another is added to save rank, as if rank meant file. Butterwomen, going each from her solitary farm to the nearest market-town, would travel most of their way alone, and the critics, I suspect, would never have dreamt of drawing them up in rank or file, if they had not had a conjecture to attack.-Ed. 4,- -"And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread. Cel. He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana;" &c. Qu., " And his kissing- Cel. Is as full of sanctity as" &c.; "he hath bought" &c. Compare my conjecture (and that of another commentator) on Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 3, S. V., Art. xxvi. (A proverb of course.) Milton, P. L., x. 53, man soon shall find Forbearance is no quittance e're day end." v. 4,—" and such dulcet diseases." He is resuming his former speech; point, if the names be rightly prefixed to the characters, Duke sen. "as your pearl in your foul oyster ; By my faith, he is very swift and sententious. Touchstone. According to the fool's bolt, sir;-and such dulcet diseases Jaques. But, for the seventh cause; how did you find" &c. But I have scarcely any doubt that the parts ought to be disposed thus," and sententious. Jacques. According "O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me; Even daughter, welcome in no less degree.” Folio, p. 206, col. 2,-" Euen daughter welcome, in no❞ &c. Read therefore,― "Even daughter-welcome, in no less degree;" as welcome as a daughter. |