Sc. ii. p. 157.

Timon. How doft thou like this jewel, Apemantus?

Apem. Not fo well as plain dealing, which will not coft a man a doit.]

Alluding to that proverbial expreffion, Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars. See Ray's Proverbs, that are entire fen

tences.

Sc. v. p. 160.

Tim. Nay ceremony was but devifed at first,

To fet a glofs upon fair deeds.]

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Nay, my Lords, &c.”

1632.

Sc. v. p. 161.

Folios 1623, and

Apem. Were I a great man, I should fear to

drink,

Left they should fpy my windpipe's dangerous notes; Great men fhould drink with harness on their throats.]

Alluding to the pledge, in the time of the Danes. It was then cuftomary, when a perfon promifed to be pledge, or fecurity for the rest of the company, that they fhould receive no harm whilft they were drinking: a custom occafioned by the practice of the Danes heretofore, who frequently used to ftab, or cut the throats of the English, while they were drinking.

In Wyat's rebellion, the first year of Queen. Mary, the ferjeants, and other lawyers in Weftminfler-ball,

See Baker's

minfter-ball, pleaded in harness. Chronicle, edit. 1670, p. 316.

Sc. v. p. 161. Timon of Apemantus.

Tim. They fay, my Lords, that ira furor brevis eft,

But yonder man is ever angry.]

Alluding to Horace, 1. epift. 2. 62, &c.

Ira furor brevis eft; animum rege, qui, nifi

paret,

Imperat; hunc frenis, hunc tu compefce catenâ. Sc. vii. p. 169.

Apem. Thou givest so long, Timon,

That I fear me, thou wilt give away thyself in paper.]

Giving away himself in paper, alludes to the many obligations, by which he was bound for the fecurity of his creditors.

This appears, I think, to be the meaning, from other paffages in this play.

Flav. "His promises fly fo beyond his state, "That what he speaks, is all in debt; he owes "For every word; he is fo kind, that he "Pays intereft for't, his hands put to their "books." Sc. vii.

Sen. "Go take these bonds along with you, "And have dates in count."

P. 171.

Act ii. fc. i.

Timon. "How goes the world, that I am thus

"encountred,

"With clamorous claims of debt, demands of

broken bonds,

"And

"And the detention of long-since due debts, "Against my honour." Sc. ii. p. 173.

In the tragedy of King Lear, act iii. fc. vi. p. 82. part of Edgar's advice, under the guise of a madman, is,

"Keep thy pen from lenders books."

Act ii. fc. ii. p. 172.

Caph. Good evening, Varro; what, you come for money.]

"Good even, Varro, &c." Folios 1623, and 1632.

Sc. iii. p. 175.

Fool. Look you, bere comes my mistress' page.] "My master's page." Folios 1623, and 1632, and Sir Thomas Hanmer.

Sc. iii. P. 186.

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Sem. Muft he needs trouble me in't? 'bove all others.]

"Muft he needs trouble me in't?

"Hum! 'bove all others." Folios 1623, and 1632; and probably right, as he uses the word bum in a few lines after.

Sc. iv. p. 188. Enter Philo.]

Enter Philotus."

and Sir Tho. Hanmer.

Id. ib.

Folios 1623, and 1632,

Philo. Is not my Lord feen yet?

Luc. Not yet.

Philo. I wonder, he was wont to shine at seven.] "I wonder on't." Folios 1623, and 1632.

A& iii.

Act iii. fc. vi. p. 193.

Sen. Your words have took fuch pains, as if they labour'd

To bring man-flaughter into form, fet quarrelling
Upon the head of valour, which indeed

Is valour mif-begot, and came into th' world
When fetts and factions were but newly born.]

An allufion to the wicked practice of duelling, upon the fevere edict of Henry IV. King of France, against duels, which was but feldom put in execution. Dr. Cockburn informs us, (Hiftory of Duels, fecond part, p. 346.), "That "the Prince of Melf, marefchal of France, and "general in Piedmont, took this courfe to fup"prefs in his army, both duels, and the com66 mon quarrels which occafioned them

"to oblige both the challenger, and him who gave the provocation, to fight upon a narrow

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bridge without rails, and guarded at each end;

"fo that there was no efcaping for the duelifts,
"but that they muft die by one another's fword
་ or be drowned."

See note upon Romeo and Juliet, act iii. fc. i.
Act iv. fc. iii, p. 204.

Timon.

Twinn'd brothers of one womb,
Whofe procreation, refidence, and birth,
Scarce is divided, touch'd with feveral fortunes,
The greater fcorns the leffer.]

Caftor and Pollux, the two fons of Jupiter and Leda, when they came of age, they freed the fea from pyrates and rovers; and therefore being accounted

counted gods of the fea, they were called on by mariners in time of danger, and tempeft.

Sc. v. p. 214.

Timon. The gilded newt, and eyelefs venom'd

worm,

With all th' abhorred births below crisp heaven,
Whereon Hyperion's quick'ning fire doth shine.]

By Hyperion is here meant the fun, by fome
called the brother of Saturn, who governeth the
course of the planets, and therefore is named
the father of the fun, moon, and ftars. This is
proved, Titus Andronicus, act v. sc. iii.
"Even from Hyperion's rifing in the east,
"Until his very downfal in the fea."

Sc. vi. p. 221. Timon to Apemantus.
Timon. " Away, thou tedious rogue, I am forry
I shall lose a stone by thee.]

He has the like expreffion in The Merry Wives of Windfor, act i. scene the last.

Caius. By gar,

he fhall not have a ftone

to trow at a dog. Timon reflects upon Apemantus as a Cynic; though all Cynics were not of this disposition; as appears from Demonax, a Cynic philofopher, (a) who, when he perceived that the Athenians had a great defire to introduce the fhow of gladiators, after the Roman manner; cry'd out, re dogs, do not fuffer this cruelty, till ye have demolished the altar of mercy; thereby intimating, that the beholding brutish cruelty was

(a) Cockburn's Hiftory of Duels, p. 40.

very