To feed again, though full. You do remember This stain upon her? Post. Iach. Ay, and it doth confirm Will you hear more? Post. Spare your arithmetick: never count the turns; Once, and a million! Iach. Post. I'll be sworn, No swearing. If you will swear you have not done 't, you lie; Thou hast made me cuckold. I will deny nothing. Iach. Post. O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal! I will go there, and do 't; i' the court; before Her father:-I'll do something Phi. [Exit. Quite besides The government of patience!-You have won: Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath? He hath against himself. Iach. With all my heart. [Exeunt. SCENE V. The same. Another Room in the same. Enter POSTHUMUS. Post. Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers? We are bastards all;9 7 course. pervert the present wrath —] i. e. turn his wrath to another Malone. To pervert, I believe, only signifies to avert his wrath from himself, without any idea of turning it against another person. To what other course it could have been diverted by the advice of Philario and Iachimo, Mr. Malone has not informed us. Steevens. 8 Is there no way &c.] Milton was very probably indebted to this speech for one of the sentiments which he has imparted to Adam, Paradise Lost, Book X: O, why did God, "Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven "Of nature, ard not fill the world at once And that most venerable man, which I When I was stamp'd; some coiner with his tools The nonpareil of this.-O vengeance, vengeance! Might well have warm'd old Saturn;2 that I thought her "Or find some other way to generate See also, Rhodomont's invective against women, in the Orlando Furioso, and above all, a speech which Euripides has put into the mouth of Hippolytus, in the tragedy that bears his name. 9 Steevens. We are bastards all;] Old copies-We are all bastards. The necessary transposition of the word-all, was Mr. Pope's. When I was stamp'd; some coiner with his tools Steevens. Made me a counterfeit :] We have again the same image in Measure for Measure: It were as good "To pardon him, that hath from nature stolen "A man already made, as to remit "Their saucy sweetness, that do coin heaven's image This image is by no means uncommon. It particularly occurs in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III, sect. 3: "Severus the Emperor in his time made lawes for the restraint of this vice; and as Dion Cassius relates in his life, tria millia moechorum, three-thousand cuckold-makers, or naturæ monetam adulterantes, as Philo calls them, false coiners and clippers of nature's mony, were summoned into the court at once." Steevens. 2 Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd, And pray'd me, oft, forbearance: did it with A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on 't Might well have warm'd old Saturn;] It certainly carries with it a very elegant sense, to suppose the lady's denial was so modest and delicate as even to inflame his desires: But may we not read it thus? And pray'd me oft forbearance: Did it &c. i. e. complied with his desires in the sweetest reserve; taking did in the acceptation in which it is used by Jonson and Shakspeare in many other places. Whalley. Admitting Mr. Whalley's notion to be just, the latter part of As chaste as unsunn'd snow :—O, all the devils!— It is the woman's part: Be it lying, note it, this passage may be compared with one in Juvenal, Sat. IV, though the pudency will be found wanting: 66 omnia fient "Ad verum, quibus incendi jam frigidus ævo Malone. 3 a German one,] Here, as in many other places, we have -on in the old copy, instead of-one. See Vol. VII, p. 357, n. 1. In King Henry IV, P. II, Falstaff assures Mrs. Quickly, that"the German hunting in water-work is worth a thousand of these bed-hangings." In other places, where our author has spoken of the hunting of the boar, a German one must have been in his thoughts, for the boar was never, I apprehend, hunted in England. Mr. Pope and Dr. Warburton read—a churning on; and, what is still more extraordinary, this strange sophistication has found its way into Dr. Johnson's most valuable Dictionary. Malone. and mounted:] Let Homer, on this occasion, keep our author in countenance: 4 669 εσ' Αρνειόν, ταῦρόν τε, συῶν τ ̓ ἐπιβήτορα καπρον.” Thus translated by Chapman : 5 Odyss. XXIII, 278. "A lambe, a bull, and sow-ascending bore." Steevens. But what he look'd for should oppose, and she Should from encounter guard.] Sir T. Hanmer and Dr. Warburton read: -found no opposition From what he look'd for should oppose, &c. This alteration probably escaped the observation of the late Mr. Edwards, or it would have afforded occasion for some pleasant commentary. T. C. Thomas Harvey in his Epistle to Sir T. H. and Thomas Potter, his Epigram on Dr. W. sufficiently demonstrate how little these criticks were at home, when they presumed on any circumstance touching the premises which our author hath, in this place, somewhat obscurely figured. Amner. Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers; revenges, hers; All faults that may be nam'd," nay, that hell knows, For ev'n to vice They are not constant, but are changing still Not half so old as that. I'll write against them, [Exit.. ACT III.....SCENE I. Britain. A Room of State in Cymbeline's Palace. Enter CYMBELINE, Queen, CLOTEN, and Lords, at one Door; and at another, CAIUS LUCIUS, and Attendants. Cym. Now say, what would Augustus Cæsar with us? Luc. When Julius Cæsar (whose remembrance yet Lives in men's eyes; and will to ears, and tongues, Be theme, and hearing ever,) was in this Britain, And conquer'd it, Cassibelan, thine uncle, (Famous in Cæsar's praises, no whit less Than in his feats deserving it,) for him, 6 that may be nam'd,] Thus the second folio. The first, with its usual disposition to blundering: All faults that name. I have met with no instance in the English language, even tend-ing to prove that the verb-to name, ever signified—to have a 7 to pray they have their will: The very devils cannot plague them better.] So, in Sir Thomas More's Comfort against Tribulation: "God could not lightly do a man more vengeance, than in this world to grant him his own foolish wishes." Steevens. 8 Now say, what would Augustus Cæsar with us?] So, in King: John: "Now say, Chatillon, what would France with us?" Steevens. thine uncle,] Cassibelan was great uncle to Cymbeline, who was son to Tenantius, the nephew of Cassibelan. See p. 8,. m. 7. Malone. H 2 And his succession, granted Rome a tribute, Queen. Shall be so ever. Clo. And, to kill the marvel, There be many Cæsars, Ere such another Julius. Britain is A world by itself; and we will nothing pay, Queen. That opportunity, With rocks unscaleable,' and roaring waters; With sands, that will not bear your enemies' boats, But suck them up to the top-mast. A kind of conquest Cæsar made here; but made not here his brag Of, came, and saw, and overcame: with shame (The first that ever touch'd him) he was carried From off our coast, twice beaten; and his shipping, (Poor ignorant baubles!2) on our terrible seas, Like egg-shells mov'd upon their surges, crack'd As casily 'gainst our rocks: For joy whereof, The fam'd Cassibelan, who was once at point (Q, giglot fortune !3*) to master Cæsar's sword,* 1 With rocks unscaleable,] This reading is Sir T. Hanmer's. The old editions have: With oaks unscaleable. Johnson. "The strength of our land consists of our seamen in their wooden forts and castles; our rocks, shelves, and sirtes, that lye along our coasts; and our trayned bands." From chapter 109 of Bariffe's Military Discipline, 1639, seemingly from Tooke's Legend of Britomart. Tollet. 2 (Poor ignorant baubles!)] Unacquainted with the nature of our boisterous seas. Johnson. 3 (0, giglot fortune!] O false and inconstant fortune! A gigløt was a strumpet. See Vol. X, p. 98, n. 9. So, in Hamlet: "Out, out, thou strumpet fortune!" Malone. A giddy thoughtless girl, is called a giglet at the present day: The word is derived from giggle, to titter, or laugh at every thing said, with or without excitement. In the present instance it may be supposed to mean either giddy, or foolish. Am. Ed. |