This is defective. I would supply, "O here's Servilius; well, now we shall know." 104. "Alas! my lord, The metre wants correction : Tim. "Alas! my lord, I, -Cut my heart in sums." Tit. Mine, fifty talents." Tim. 66 Tell out my heart's blood." Luc. Serv. "Five thousand crowns, my lord." "Five thousand drops Tim. "Pay that. What's your's?-and your's?" 1 Var. Serv. "" 2 Var. Sero. " Tim. My lord, My lord, "Tear, take me, coin me, and the gods fall on you. My steward!" Flav. Tim. 105. " 66 Here, my lord." Come hither, Flavius." Be't not (in) thy care; go." The word in here should be out. 22 "There is not so much left to furnish out "A moderate table." Tim. 66 -Be't not thy care; go." SCENE V. 106. Again the metre wants regulation: "Most true; the law shall bruise him." Alcib. " —— Honour, health, 1 Sen." How now, captain ?" In the speech of Alcibiades there are two hemistics, the latter of which appears to belong to the former, and would complete the verse, which might proceed thus, with the further transposition of two lines: "He is a man, setting his fate aside, "Of comely virtues, who his foe oppos'd: "Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice; 46 (An honour in him, that buys out his fault,) But, with a noble fury, and fair spirit, Seeing his reputation touch'd to death, "He did behave his anger, ere 'twas spent, "With such a sober and unnoted passion "As if he had but prov'd an argument." 108. "You undergo too strict a paradox." You bear too great a difficulty in attempting to reconcile this paradox. 109. 66 Like his raiment, carelessly.” To preserve the metre, the terminating syllable of carelessly should be omitted, and "careless" stand adverbially. "And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, "To bring it into danger." Some words have been lost: perhaps these: "To revenge is no valour, but to bear." Unless we place the accent, contrary to usage, upon the first syllable of revenge, we cannot read this line metrically. Perhaps it was "Not to revenge is valour, but to bear." "And let the foes quietly cut their throats.” Here again is a line in syllables only, unless we accentuate "quiétly." I would transpose: "And let the foes cut quietly their throats." Again, what kind of metre is this? "Abroad? why then, women are more valiant." We should transpose: "Abroad? why women are more valiant, then." Again, "And th' ass, more captain than the lion; the felon." This is no metre. I would read: 111. "The ass, more captain than the lion, and "The iron'd felon wiser than the judge." I suppose some words like these are lost: "In vain? why so, my lords? his service done, Why, I say, my lords," &c. The word why should be ejected. Here, again, we have another notable verse: "And slain in fight many of your enemies." I suppose we should read, "And slain in many a fight your enemies.” Again, 112. "If there were no foes, that were enough alone." This should be, "Were there no foes, that were enough alone." 113. "I do beseech you, know me." A foot is wanting here-I suppose, "I do beseech you, know me better." Again a deficient syllable; for I cannot recog nize, with Mr. Steevens, five syllables in remembrances : "Call me to your remembrances, lords.” 3 Sen. " What?" Banish usury, "That makes the senate ugly." I suppose, "That sordid vice, that makes the senate ugly.” And, not to swell our spirit.” 66 This is manifest corruption: I cannot annex any meaning to the words, and would dismiss them, supplying for the metre and the sense, "Attend our weightier judgment. As for him "He shall be executed," &c. 114. ८८ That none may look on you!" That ye may be so ghastly to sight, that none would like to look on you. SCENE VI. 120. "Who stuck and spangled you with flatteries, "Washes it off." This must be an error. It should, I think, clearly be, "Who, stuck and spangled with your flatteries, "Washes it off." These lords were the flatterers, and this method which Timon has taken of discharging his debt to them upon that score, he calls washing it off. To "Jacks," here, I believe, is annexed a double meaning, the piece of mechanism explained by Mr. Steevens, and the contemptuous sense belonging to the word in other places; as in Much Ado About Nothing, "Jacks," apes, braggarts, &c. |