That all those eyes ador'd them, ere their fall, Scorn now their hand fhould give them burial.3 ESCA. 'Twas very strange. HEL. And yet but juft; for though This king were great, his greatnefs was no guard To bar heaven's fhaft, but fin had his reward. ESCA. 'Tis very true. Enter three Lords. 1. LORD. See, not a man in private conference, Or council, has refpect with him but he 4 2. LORD. It fhall no longer grieve, without reproof. 3. LORD. And curs'd be he that will not fecond it. 1. LORD. Follow me then: Lord Helicane, a word. HEL. With me? and welcome: Happy day, my lords. 1. LORD. Know, that our griefs are rifen to the top, And now at length they overflow their banks. ་་ they hym tolde, "That for vengeance as God it wolde, "With thonder and lightnyng is forfmitte. "His doughter hath the fame chance, "So ben thei both in o balance." MALONE. That all thofe eyes ador'd them, ere their fall, Scorn now &c.] The expreffion is elliptical: That all thofe eyes which ador'd thera &c. MALONE. See, not a man &c.] To what this charge of partiality was. defigned to conduct, we do not learn; for it appears to have na Influence over the rest of the dialogue. STEEVENS. HEL. Your griefs, for what? wrong not the prince you love. 1. LORD. Wrong not yourfelf then, noble Heli cane; But if the prince do live, let us falute him, Or know what ground's made happy by his breath. Or dead, gives cause to mourn his funeral, 6 2. LORD. Whofe death's, indeed, the frongest in our cenfure:" And knowing this kingdom, if without a head, (Like goodly buildings left without a roof,9) And be refolv'd, he lives to govern us,] Refolu'd is fatisfied, freed from doubt. So, in a fubfequent fcene: Refolve your angry father, if my tongue," &c. And leaves us →→→ which cannot be right. MALONE. The quarto, 1609, reads-And leave us, 7 Whofe death's, indeed, the frongest in our cenfure: 1 i. e. the moft probable in our opinion. Cenfure is thus used in King Richard 111: “Io give your çenfures in this weighty business." STEFVENS. They did not The old copies read-Whofe death indeed, &c. MALONE. And knowing this kingdom, if without a head,} know that the kingdom had abfolutely loft its governor; for in the very preceding line this lord obferves that it was only more probable that he was dead, than living. I therefore read, with a very flight change,if without a head. Abe old copy, for if, bas-is. the next line but one, by fupplying the word will, which I fuppofe was omitted by the catele ffnefs of the compofitor, the fenfe and metre are both reflored. The paflage as it ftands in the old, copy, is not, by any mode of conftrudion, reducible to grammar. MALONE. 9 (Like goodly buildings left without a roof.) The fame thought Occurs in King Henry IV, Part II : Will foon to ruin fall, your noble felf, ALL. Live, noble Helicane! HEL. Try honour's caufe; forbear your fuffrages; Where's hourly trouble, for a minute's cafe." leaves his part-created coft "A naked fubje& to the weeping clouds, And wafte for churlish winter's tyranny." Try honour's cause; ] Perhaps we should read: ---- STEVENS. Take I your wish, I leap into the feas, STEEVENS Where's hourly trouble, &c.] Thus the old copy. STEEVENS, It must be acknowledged that a line in Hamlet, "Or to take arms against a fee of troubles," as well as the rhyme, adds fome fupport to this reading: yet I have no doubt that the poet wrote: I leap into the feat, I have no fpur "To prick the fides of my intent, but only "Vaulting ambition, which o'er-leaps itself," &c. On fhip-board the pain and pleasure may be in the proportion here flated; but the troubles of him who plunges into the fea (unlels he happens to be an expert fwimmer) are feldom of an hour's duration. MALONE. Where's hourly trouble, for a minute's eafe. ] So, in K. Richard III: "And cach hour's joy wreck'd with a week of teen.' " MALONE. The expreffion is figurative, and by the words—I leap into the feas, &c. I believe the fpeaker only means-I embark too haflily or an expedition in which cafe is difproportioned to labour. STEEVENS, a To forbear &c.] Old copy: To forbear the abfence of your king.` Some word being omitted in this line, I read: To forbear choice i'the absence of your king. STEVENS. If in which time expir'd, he not return, Go fearch like noblemen, like noble fubjects, You fhall like diamonds fit about his crown." 1. LORD. To wifdom he's a fool that will not yield; And, fince lord Helicane enjoineth us, We with our travels will endeavour it. 5 HEN. Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands; When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever ftands.. and win unto return, [Exeunt. You shall like diamonds fit about his crown. ] As these are the concluding lines of a speech, perhaps they were meant to rhyme. We might therefore read: and win unto renown, i. e. if you prevail on him to quit his prefent obfcure retreat, and be reconciled to glory, you shall be acknowledged as the brighteft ornaments of his throne. STEEVFNS. We with our travels will endeavour it.] Old copy: We with our travels will endeavour. Endeavour what? fuppofe, to find out Pericles. I have therefore added the fyllable which appeared wanting both to metre and fenfe. STEEVENS. "The author might have intended an abrupt fentence. MALONE! I would readily concur with the opinion of Mr. Malone, had paffion, inftead of calm resolution, dictated the words of the Speaker. STEVENS, SCENE V. Pentapolis. A Room in the Palace. 6 Enter SIMONIDES, reading a Letter; the Knights meet him. 1. KNIGHT. Good morrow to the good Simonides. SIM. Knights, from my daughter this I let you know, That for this twelvemonth, fhe'll not undertake Her reason to herself is only known, Which from herself by no means can I get. 2. KNIGHT. May we not get access to her, my lord? SIM. 'Faith, by no means; fhe hath so frialy tiéd her To her chamber, that it is impoffible. One twelve moons more fhe'll bear Diana's livery; La The Hiflorie of King Appolyn of Thyre, " two kynges fones". pay their court to the daughter of Archyfrates, (the Simonides of the prefent play). He fends two rolls of paper to her, containing their names, &c. and defires her to choose which he will marry. She writes him a letter (in anfwer), of which Appolyn is the bearer,--that she will have the man which hath paffed the daungerous, undes, and pervlies of the fea-all other to refuse." The fame circumftance is mentioned by Gower, who has introduced three fuitors infead of two, in which our author has followed him. MALONE. In Twine's tranflation, thefe fuitors are alfo three in number,Ardonius, Munditius, and Carnillus. STEFVENS. This by the eye of Cynthia hath fie vow'd, ] It were to be |