1 Page. You are deceiv'd, Sir, we kept time, we loft not our time. Clo. By my troth, yes: I count it but time loft to hear fuch a foolish Song. God b'w'you, and God mend your voices. Come, Audrey. [Exeunt. SCENE V. Changes to another Part of the Foreft. Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, Jaques, Orlando, Duke Sen. DOST th OST thou believe, Orlando, that the boy Can do all this that he hath promised? Orla. I fometimes do believe, and fometimes do not; As those that fear, they hope, and know they fear. Enter Rofalind, Silvius, and Phebe. Rof. Patience once more, whiles our compact is urg'd: tunable.] Tho' it is thus in all the printed Copies, it is evident from the Sequel of the Dialogue, that the Poet wrote as I have reform'd in the Text, untimeable.Time, and Tune, are frequently mifprinted for one another in the old Editions of Shakespeare. THEOBALD. This emendation is received, I think very undefervedly, by Dr. Warburton. 5 As thofe that fear THEY HOPE, and know THEY fear.] This frange nonfenfe fhould be read thus. As thofe that fear THEIR HAP and know THEIR fear. i. e. As thofe who fear the iffu of a thing when they know thei fear to be well grounded. WARBURTON The depravation of this lin is evident, but I do not think th learned Commentator's emend tion very happy. I read thus, As thofe that fear with hop and hope with fear. Or thus, with less alteration, As thofe that fear, they be and now they fear. Yo You fay, if I bring in your Rofalind, [To the Duke. You will bestow her on Orlando here? with her. Ros. And you fay, you will have her when I bring [To Phebe. Rof. You say that you will have Phebe, if she will? [To Silvius. Sil. Tho' to have her and death were both one thing. Rof. I've promis'd to make all this matter even. Keep you your word, O Duke, to give your daugh ter: You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter: Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me, To make thefe doubts all even. [Exeunt Rof. and Celia. Duke Sen. I do remember in this fhepherd-boy Some lively touches of my daughter's favour. Orla. My lord, the first time that I ever faw him, Methought, he was a brother to your daughter; lut, my good Lord, this boy is foreft-born, And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments Of many defperate ftudies by his uncle; SCENE VI. Enter Clown and Audrey. 6 Jaq. There is, fure, another flood toward, and thefe couples are coming to the Ark. • Here come a pair of very strange beafts, which in all tongues are call'd fools, Clo. Salutation, and greeting, to you all! Jaq. Good, my Lord, bid him welcome. This is the motley-minded gentleman, that I have fo often met in the foreft: he hath been a Courtier, he fwears. Clo. If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation. I have trod a meafure; I have flatter'd a lady; I have been politick with my friend, smooth with mine enemy; I have undone three taylors; I have had four quarrels, and like to have fought one. Jaq. And how was That ta'en up? Clo. 'Faith, we met; and found, the quarrel was upon the feventh cause 7. Jaq. How the feventh caufe?- Good my lord, like this fellow. Duke Sen. I like him very well. Clo. God'ild you, Sir, I defire you of the like: I prefs in here, Sir, among the rest of the country copulatives, to fwear, and to forfwear, according as marriage binds, and blood breaks a poor vir gin, Sir, an ill-favour'd thing, Sir, but mine owna poor humour of mine, Sir, to take That that no man elfe will. Rich honefty dwells like a mifer, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl, in your foul oyster. Duke Sen. By my faith, he is very swift and fententious. Clo. According to the fool's bolt, Sir, and fuch dulcet diseases *. Jaq. But, for the feventh caufe; how did you find the quarrel on the feventh caufe? Clo. Upon a lye feven times removed; (bear your body more feeming, Audrey) as thus, Sir; I did diflike the cut of a certain Courtier's beard'; he fent me word, if I faid his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it was. This is call'd the Retort courteous. If I fent him word again, it was not well cut, he would fend me word, he cut it to please himself. This is call'd the Quip modeft. If again, it was not well cut, he difabled my judgment. This is call'd the Reply churlish. If again, it was not well cut, he would anfwer, I fpake not true. This is call'd the Reproof valiant. If again, it was not well cut, he would fay, Ilye. This is call'd the Countercheck quarrelsome; and fo, the Lye circumftantial, and the Lye direct. 9 According as marriage binds, and blood breaks.] The conftruction is, to fwear as marriage binds. Which I think is not Englife. I fufpect Shakespear wrote it thus, to fwear and to forfear, according as marriage BIDS, and blood BIDS break. WARBURTON. I cannot discover what has here puzzled the Commentator: fwear according as marriage bind, is to take the oath enjoin'd in the ceremonial of marriage. *Dulcet difeafes.] This I do not underítand. For difeafes it is eafy to read difcourfes: but, perhaps the fault may lie deeper. As thus, Sir; I did diflike the cut of a courtier's beard ;] This folly is touched upon with high humour by Fletcher in his Queen of Corinth. Has he familiarly Diflik'd your yellow ftarch, or Said your doublet Was not exally frenchified?or drawn your fword, Cry'd 'twas ill mounted? Has be given the lye In circle or oblique or femicircle Or direct parallel; you must challenge him. H 3 WARB. Jaq. Jaq. And how oft did you say, his beard was not well cut? Clo. I durft go no further than the Lye circumftantial; nor he durft not give me the Lye direct, and fo we meafur'd fwords and parted. Jaq. Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the Lye? 2 Clo. O Sir, we quarrel in print, by the book; as have books for good manners. I will name you you 2 O Sir, we quarrel in print, by the book;] The Poet has, in this fcene, rallied the mode of formal duelling, then fo prevalent, with the highest humour and addrefs; nor could he have treated it with a happier contempt, than by making his Clown fo knowing in the forms and preliminaries of it. The particular book here alluded to is a very ridiculous treatise of one Vincentio Saviolo, intitled, Of bonour and honourable quarrels, in Quarto, printed by Wolf, 1594. The first part of this tract he intitles, A difcourfe most necessary for all gentlemen that have in regard their honors, touching the giving and receiving the lye, whereupon the Duello and the Combat in divers forms doth enfue; and many other inconveniences, for lack only of true knowledge of honor, and the RIGHT UNDERSTANDING conditional lies, or the lye circumftantial. V. Of the lye in general. VI. Of the lye in particalar. VII. Of foolish lies. VIII. A conclufion touching the wrefting or returning back of the lye, or the countercheck quarrelfome. In the chapter of conditional lies, fpeaking of the particle IF, he fays-Conditional lies be fuch as are given conditionally, thus-IF thou haft faid fo or fɔ, then the lieft. Of these kind of lies, given in this manner, often arise much contention, whereof no fure conclufion can arife. By which he means, they cannot proceed to cut one another's throats, while there is an IF between. Which is the reafon of Shakespear's mak ing the Clown fay, I knew aber feven juftices could not make up a quarrel: but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an IF, as if you faid fo, then I faid fo, and they fhock bands, and fwore brothers. Your 1F is the only peace-maker; much virtue in IF. Caranza was another of thefe authentick Authors upon the Duello. Fletcher in his laft Act of Love's Pilgri mage ridicules him with much humour.. WARBURTON. the |