Your Queen and I are devils.. Yet, go on;- Leo. Is he won yet? Her. He'll stay, my Lord. Leo. At my request he would not : Hermione, my deareft, thou ne'er spok❜ft To better purpose.. Her Never? Leo. Never, but once. Her. What? have I twice faid well? when was't before? I pr'ythee, tell me; cram's with praise, and make's As fat as tame things: one good deed, dying tongue lefs, Slaughters a thoufand, waiting upon that.. Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace! Grace to boot! i. e. tho' tempta. tions have grown up, yet I hope grace too has kept pace with them. Grace to boot, was a proverbial expreffion on thefe occafions. To the other part, fhe replies, as for our tempting you, pray take heed you draw no conclufion from thence, for that would be making your Queen and me devils, &c. WARBURTON. 2 With Spur we beat an acre. But to th' goal: Thus this paffage has been always pointed; whence it appears, that the Editors did not take the Poet's conceit. They imagined that, But to th' goal meant, but to come to the purpose; but the fenfe is different, and plain enough when the line is pointed thus, ere With pur we beat an acre, but to th' goal. i. e. good ufage will win us to any thing; but, with ill, we ftop fhort, even there where both our intereft and our inclination would otherwife have carried us. WARBURTON. Nay, Nay, let me have't; I long. Leo. Why, that was when Three crabbed months had fowr'd themselves to death, Her. 'Tis Grace, indeed. L Why, lo Leo. Too hot, too hot [Afide. To mingle friendship far, is mingling bloods. Mam. Ay, my good Lord. Leo. ' fecks! Why, that's my bawcock; what? has't fmutch'd thy nofe? They fay, it's a copy out of mine. Come, captain, We must be neat ; not neat, but cleanly, captain; And yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf, Are all call'd neat. Sill virginalling of the deer. 4 [Obferving Polixenes and Hermione. 3 The mort o' th' deer-] A leffon upon the horn at the death THEOBALD. *We must be neat.] Leontes, feeing his fon's nofe fmutched, cries, we must be neat; then, re Upon his palm?-how now, you wanton calf! Mam. Yes, if you will, my Lord. Leo. Thou want'ft a rough pash, and the shoots that I have, To be full like me.-Yet they say, we are * No bourne 'twixt his and mine; yet were it true To fay, this boy were like me. Come, Sir page, Look on me with your welkin-eye, fweet villain. Moft dear'ft, my collop-can thy dam-may't beImagination! thou doft ftab to th' center. Thou doft make poffible things not be fo held, And fellow'ft Nothing. Then 'tis very credent, And hardning of my brows. Pol. What means Sicilia? Her. He fomething feems unfettled. Pol. How? my Lord? Leo. What cheer? how is't with you, best brother? Her. You look As if you held a brow of much Distraction. Are not you mov'd, my Lord? Leo. No, in good earnest. How fometimes nature will betray its folly * As o'er-dy'd blacks.] Sir T. Hanmer understands, blacks died too much, and therefore rotten. VOL. II. 5 -welkin eye,] Blue eye; an eye of the fame colour with the welkin, or sky. R In In my green velvet coat; my dagger muzzled, How like, methought, I then was to this kernel, Mam. No, my Lord, I'll fight. * Leo. You will!-why, happy man be's dole !-- Are you fo fond of your young Prince, as we Pol. If at home, Sir, He's all my exercife, my mirth, my matter; Offic'd with me: we two will walk, my Lord, Next to thyself, and my young rover, he's 7 Apparent to my heart. Her. If you will seek us, We are yours i'th' garden: fhall's attend you there? Leo. To your own bents difpofe you; you'll be found, Be you beneath the fky.-I am angling now, Tho' you perceive me not, how I give line; "Will you take eggs for money?] eggs for money?] This feems to be a proverbial expreffion, used when a man fees himself wronged and makes no refiftance. Its original, or precife meaning, I cannot find, but I believe it means, Will you be a cuckold for hire. The cuckow is reported to lay her eggs in ano [Afide, obferving Her. ther bird's neft; he therefore that has eggs laid in his neft, is faid to be cuculatus, cuckow'd, or cuckold. *-happy man be's dole!-] May his dole or share in life be to be a happy man. 7 Apparent-] That is, beir apparent, or the next claimant. Go Go to, go to. How the holds up the neb! the bill to him! [Exe. Polix. Her and attendants. Manent Leo. To her allowing hufband. Gone already, one. Go, play, boy, play-thy mother plays, and I Or I am much deceiv'd, cuckolds ere now; Where 'tis predominant; and 'tis powerful, think it. It will let in and out the enemy, With bag and baggage: many a thousand of's Have the difeafe, and feel't not.-How now, boy? Mam. I am like you, they fay. Leo. Why, that's fome comfort. What? is Camillo there? Cam. Ay, my good Lord. Leo. Go play, Mamill us--Thou'rt an honest man: [Exit. Mamil. a fork'd one-] That is, a horned one; a cuckold. |