But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, 8 The flower-de-lis being one! O, thefe I lack, Flor. What? like a corfe? Per. No, like a bank, for love to lie and play on; Not like a corfe: or if,-not to be buried, But quick, and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers: In Whitfun' paftorals: fure, this robe of mine Flo. What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, fweet, I'd have you buy and fell fo; fo give alms; To fing them too: When you do dance, I wish you -bold oxlips,} Gold is the reading of fir T. Hanmer; the former editions have bold. JOHNSON. I am not certain but that the old reading is the true one. The exlip has not a weak flexible ftalk like the corvslip, but erects itself boldly in the face of the fun. Wallis, in his Hift. of Northumberland, fays, that the great oxlip grows a foot and a half high. It fhould be confeffed, however, that the colour of the oxlip is taken notice of by other writers. So, in the Arraignment of Paris, 1584: ' yellow oxlips bright as burnish'd gold." STEEVENS. not to be buried, But quick, and in my arms.] So, Marston's Infatiate Countefs, 1603: "Ifab. Heigh ho, you'll bury me, I fee. Rob. In the fwan's down, and tomb thee in my arms. There is no earlier cdition of the Winter's Tale than that in 1623. MALONE. A wave o'the fea, that you might ever do So fingular in each particular, Each your doing, Crowns what you are doing in the prefent deeds, Per. O Doricles, Your praises are too large: but that your youth 2, Flo. I think, you have ' As little skill to fear, as I have purpose To put you to't.-But, come; our dance, I pray: Your hand, my Perdita: fo turtles pair, That never mean to part. Per. I'll fwear for 'em 4. Each your doing,] That is, your manner in each act crowns the act. JOHNSON. -but that your youth, 2 And the true blood which peeps fairly through it,] So, Marlowe, in his Hero and Leander : Pol "Through whose white skin, fofter than foundest fleep, "With damaske eyes the ruby blood doth peep." This poem was certainly published before 1600, being frequently quoted in a collection of verfes entitled England's Parnaffus, printed in that year. From that collection it appears, that Marlowe wrote only the two firft Seftiads, and about 100 lines of the third, and that the remainder was written by Chapman. Of the Winter's Tale there is no earlier edition than that of the folio 1623. MALONE 3 I think, you have As little kill to fear, To have skill to do a thing was a phrafe then in ufe equivalent to our to have reafon to do a thing. The Oxford editor, ignorant of this, alters it to: As little fill in fear. which has no kind of fenfe in this place. WARBURTON. 4 Per. I'll fwear for 'em.] I fancy this half line is placed to a wrong perfon. And that the king begins his speech afide: Pol. Pol. This is the prettiest low-born lafs, that ever Ran on the green-fward: nothing fhe does, or feems, But fmacks of fomething greater than herself; Too noble for this place. Cam. He tells her fomething", That makes her blood look out: Good footh, the is The queen of curds and cream. Clo. Come on, ftrike up. Dor. Mopfa must be your mistrefs: marry, garlick, To mend her kiffing with.Mop. Now, in good time! Clo. Not a word, a word; 6 we ftand upon our Here a dance of Shepherds and Shepherdeffes. Pol. Pray, good fhepherd, what Fair fwain is this, which dances with your daughter? Shep. They call him Doricles; and he boafts him felf To have a worthy feeding: but I have it Pol. I'll fwear for 'em, This is the prettieft, &c. JOHNSON. • He tells her fomething, That makes her blood look on't :- -] Upon Thus all the old editions. The meaning must be this. The prince tells her fomething, that calls the blood up into her cheeks, and makes her blufb. She, but a little before, ufes a like expreffion to defcribe the prince's fincerity: 6 your youth And the true blood, which peeps forth fairly through it, That is, we are now on our behaviour. JOHNSON. 7 a worthy feeding : Certainly breeding. WARBURTON. I conceive feeding to be a pafture, and a worthy feeding to be a tract of pafturage not inconfiderable, not unworthy of my daughter's fortune. JOHNSON. Dr. Johnson's explanation is juft. So, in Drayton's Moon-calf: 66 Finding Upon his own report, and I believe it ; He looks like footh: He fays, he loves my daughter; As 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain, Who loves another beft. Pol. She dances featly. Shep. So fhe does any thing; though I report it, That fhould be filent: if young Doricles Do light upon her, fhe fhall bring him that Enter a Servant. Ser. O mafter, if you did but hear the pedlar at the door, you would never dance again after a tabor and pipe; no, the bag-pipe could not move you: he fings feveral tunes, fafter than you'll tell money; he utters them as he had eaten ballads, and all men's ears grew tó his tunes. Clo. He could never come better: he fhall come in: I love a ballad but even too well; if it be doleful matter, merrily fet down, or a very pleasant thing indeed, and fung lamentably. Ser. He hath fongs, for man, or woman, of all fizes; no milliner can fo fit his cuftomers with gloves : Finding the feeding for which he had toil'd "To have kept fafe, by these vile cattle spoil'd." Again, in the fixth fong of the Polyolbion: 66 fo much that do rely "Upon their feedings, flocks, and their fertility." STEEVENS. He looks like footh :- -] Sooth is truth. Obfolete. So, in Lylly's Woman in the Moon, 1597: "Thou dost diffemble, but I mean good footh." STEEVENS. doleful matter merrily fet down ;-] This feems to be another ftroke aimed at the title-page of Prefton's Cambiles, "A lamentable Tragedy, mixed full of pleafant Mirth, &c." STEEVENS. he he has the prettieft love-fongs for maids; fo without bawdry, which is ftrange; with fuch delicate burdens of dil-do's and fadings': jump her and thump her; and where fome stretch-mouth'd rafcal would, as it were, mean mischief, and break a foul gap into the matter, he makes the maid to anfwer, Whoop, do me no harm, good man; puts him off, flights him, with Whoop, do me no harm, good man2. Pol. This is a brave fellow. Clo. Believe me, thou talkeft of an admirable-conceited fellow. Has he any unbraided wares 3 ? 66 Ser. -fadings: -] An Irish dance of this name is mentioned by B. and Jonfon, in The Irish Mafque at Court, vol. V. p. 421, 2% and daunfh a fading at te wedding.' Again, in Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pefiles P. 416: "I will have him dance fading; fading is a fine jigg." So, in The Bird in a Cage, by Shirley, 1633: "But under her coats the ball be found "With a fading." Again, in Ben Jonfon's 97th epigram: 2 TYRWHITT. "See you yond motion? not the old fading." STEEVENS. -Whoop, do me no harm, good man.] This was the name of an old fong. In the famous hiftory of Fryar Bacon we have a ballad to the tune of, "Oh! do me no harme good man." FARMER. 3 unbraided wares?] Surely we must read braided, for such are all the wares mentioned in the answer. JoHnson. I believe by unbraided wares, the Clown means, has he any thing befides laces which are braided, and are the principal commodity fold by ballad-finging pedlars. Yes, replies the fervant, he has ribbons, &c. which are things not braided, but woven. The drift of the Clown's queftion, is either to know whether Autolycus has any thing better than is commonly fold by fuch vagrants; any thing worthy to be prefented to his mistress: or, as probably, by enquiring for fomething which pedlars ufually have not, to efcape laying out his money at all. The following paffage in Any Thing for a quiet Life, however, leads me to fuppofe that there is here fome allufion which I cannot explain: She fays that you fent ware which is not warrantable, braided ware, and that you give not London measure." Again, in the Honeft Lawyer, 1616: "A moft fearful peftilence to happen among taylors. There's a ftatute lace fhall undo them." STEEVENS. 66 Unbraided |