With my more noble meaning, not a man Shall pass his quarter, or offend the stream Both. "Tis most nobly spoken. Alcib. Descend, and keep your words. [The Senators descend, and open the Gates.] Enter a Soldier. Sol. My noble general, Timon is dead; Entomb'd upon the very hem o'the sea: And on his grave-stone this insculpture, which With wax I brought away, whose soft impression Interprets for my poor ignorance. Alcib. [Reads.] "Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft : Seek not my name: A plague consume you wicked caitiffs left! Here lie I Timon, who, alive, all living men did hate: Pass by, and curse thy fill; but pass, and stay not here thy gait." "1 my countryman and you." See King Richard II., Act i. sc. 2, note 29. 10 The original reads, " shall be remedied to your public laws;' which makes stark nonsense. Mr. Dyce, than whom there is no better authority, thinks there is no doubt that render'd is the right word. Others have proposed remitted and remanded. H. 11 What is here given as one epitaph is really a combination of two, as may be seen by the passage from North's Plutarch quoted in our Introduction. The reader will of course observe the inconsistency between the two couplets, the first saying,"Seek not my name;" the second,- -"Here lie I Timon." How the two got thus thrown together, it were vain to speculate: possibly the Poet was in doubt which to choose, and so copied them both, and then neglected to erase the one which he meant to reject. See, however, the Introduction. In the Palace of Pleasure the epitaph is given thus: These well express in thee thy latter spirits: From niggard nature fall; yet rich conceit make each 12 stint war; Prescribe to other, as each other's leech.' 13 [Exeunt. "My wretched catife dayes expired now and past, 12 Stop. 13 Physician. H. 11* |