C Or, perhaps, better: "With a more riotous appetite; though women Above, down from the waist they are céntaurs áll. "There is the sulphurous pit, there burning, scalding, "Consumption, stench;-fie! fie! fie! pah! give me "An ounce of civet, good apothecary, Glo. 50, let me kiss that hand!" Lear. "Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality." It is not easy to utter this as an harmonious line: "Let me wipe't first; for it smells of mortality." "I do remember well enough thine eyes:. "What, dost thou squinny at me? No, no, do Thy worst, blind Cupid, I'll not love, read thou "This challenge, mark you but the penning of it." 549. This a good block!" I believe Lear now alludes to the eyeless head of Gloster, to which succeeds the idea of the hat and felt. 552. Thou hast one daughter, "Who redeems nature from the general curse "Which twain have brought her to." This thought, not so widely extended, Mr. Pope has introduced into his Elegy on the Death of an Unfortunate Lady: 553. “ "Nor left one virtue to redeem her race." A most poor man, Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows, "Am pregnant to good pity." This is incorrectly expressed; the art of known and feeling sorrows, for the art or habit acquired by knowing and feeling sorrows. Mr. Gray has adopted the sentiment in his Ode to Adversity: "What sorrow was thou bad'st her know, "And from her own, she learn'd to melt at others woe." to i. e. My evil genius; an expression consonant "the safer sense," i. e. the same, or the sound sense, line 429. "By the art," &c. The words may admit of this construction, who, by the effect of acknowledged and deepfelt sorrows," &c. B. STRUTT. I am doubtful whether this means, "O, incomprehensible extent of woman's desires!" or that it is a reflection on the fickleness and uncertainty, the varium et mutabile semper of woman's appetite; Dr. Warburton gives the latter interpretation, and that may receive support from some words that Posthumus utters on the subject: "They are not constant, but are changing still, "One vice but of a minute old, for one "Not half so old as that." 66 Ingenious feeling." Thus in Hamlet: "That robb'd thee of thy most ingenious sense." "And every measure of requital fail me.” These words seem wanting. SCENE VII. 564. Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears "Do scald like molten lead." "That" for "insomuch that," " so that;" as in other places: "There's one did laugh in his sleep, and one cried murder! "That they did wake each other," &c. 566. "Be your tears wet?" Is your sorrow unfeigned? Do you weep in deed? "Be" for "are," the subjunctive mood instead of the indicative, especially in this auxi liary verb, is too common with the old writers. No cause! no cause!" More disorder of the metre. I would regulate thus: "You have some cause, they none." Cord." -No cause! no cause! "Do not abuse me now, I pray you, not." de 567. "Till further settling. Cord. " Please your highness, walk." Lear. You must bear with me; pray you, now, forget, "Forget, now, and forgive; I am old and foolish." [Exeunt. What follows, between Kent and the Gentleman, appears to be useless and idle interpolation. ACT V. SCENE I. 570. "No, by mine honour, madam; never think it, "She and the duke, her husband; more anon." Enter Alb. Gon. &c. Gon. "I had rather," &c. This speech of Goneril's appears to be an unskilful interpolation. "Where I could not be honest, "I never yet was valiant." This thought, a little extended, is nobly expressed by Macbeth: "I dare do all that may become a man; 572. Sister, you'll go with us?" The measure wants correction: Reg. "Sister, you'll go with us." No, sister." "And I'll appear again.' Alb. 576. 99 Why fare thee well, "I will o'erlook thy paper presently." SCENE II. "Give me thy hand; come on." Some words, like these, seem wanting: "Are prisoners now; give me thy hand, come on. 578. "Who parts us now shall bring a brand from heaven." SCENE III. 579. "The goujeers," &c. I believe we should point: * "The goujeers shall devour them flesh and fell: "Eer they shall make us weep, we'll see them starve. "Cordelia, come." Edm." [Exeunt. Come hither, Captain, hark!" 581. "Write happy." Subscribe yourself a happy man, for your fortune will be made. 1 "As I have set it down." These words seem wanting: "As I have set it down. What say'st thou to me?" |