Of old sir Rowland! why, what make you here? No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master, O, what a world is this, when what is comely Orl. Why, what's the matter? O unhappy youth, Come not within these doors; within this roof "I knew then how to seek your memories." Again, in The Atheist's Tragedy, by C. Turner, 1611: "And with his body place that memory "Of noble Charlemont." Again, in Byron's Tragedy: "That statue will I prize past all the jewels "The memory of my grandame." Steevens. 1 so fond-] i. e. so indiscreet, so inconsiderate. So, in The Merchant of Venice: I do wonder, "Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond "To come abroad with him ور Steevens. 2 The bony priser -] In the former editions-The bonny priser. We should read-bony priser. For this wrestler is characterised for his strength and bulk, not for his gaiety or good humour. So, Milton: "Giants of mighty bone." Johnson. So, in the Romance of Syr Degore, bl. 1. no date: "This is a man all for the nones, "For he is a man of great bones." Warburton. Bonny, however, may be the true reading. So, in King Henry VI, P. II, Act V: "Even of the bonny beast he lov'd so well." Steevens. The word bonny occurs more than once in the novel from which this play of As you Like it is taken. It is likewise much used by the common people in the northern counties. I believe, however, bony to be the true reading. Malone. 3 to some kind of men -] Old copy-seeme kind. Corrected by the editor of the second folio. Malone. The enemy of all your graces lives: Your brother-(no, no brother; yet the son- Hath heard your praises; and this night he means This is no place, this house is but a butchery; Orl. Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go? A thievish living on the common road? I rather will subject me to the malice 4 This is no place,] Place here signifies a seat, a mansion, a residence. So, in the first Book of Samuel: "Saul set him up a place, and is gone down to Gilgal." Again, in Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: "His wanning was ful fayre upon an heth, "With grene trees yshadewed was his place.” We still use the word in compound with another, as-St. James's place, Rathbone place; and Crosby place, in K. Richard III, &c. Steevens. Our author uses this word again in the same sense in his Lover's Complaint: "Love lack'd a dwelling, and made him her place." Plas, in the Welch language, signifies a mansion-house. Malone. Steevens's explanation of this passage is too refined. Adam means merely to say-" This is no place for you." M. Mason. diverted blood,] Blood turned out of the course of nature. Johnson. 5 So, in our author's Lover's Complaint: "Sometimes diverted, their poor balls are tied "To the orbed earth -." Malone. To divert a water-course, that is, to change its course, was a common legal phrase, and an object of litigation in Westminster Hall, in our author's time, as it is at present. Again, in Ray's Travels: "We rode along the sea coast to Ostend, diverting at Nieuport, to refresh ourselves, and get a the town; i. e. leaving our course. Reed. Adam. But do not so: I have five hundred crowns, Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;" Orl. O good old man; how well in thee appears 6 and He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, &c.] See Saint Luke, xii, 6, and 24. Douce. 7- rebellious liquors in my blood;] That is liquors which inflame the blood or sensual passions, and incite them to rebel against reason. So, in Othello: "For there's a young and sweating devil here, Perhaps he only means liquors that rebel against the constitution. Steevens. 8 Even with the having:] Even with the promotion gained by service is service extinguished. Johnson. Adam. Master, go on; and I will follow thee, Yet fortune cannot recompense me better, Than to die well, and not my master's debtor. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. The Forest of Arden. Enter ROSALIND in boy's clothes, CELIA drest like a Ros. O Jupiter! how weary are my spirits!1 weary. Ros. I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel, and to cry like a woman: but I must comfort the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat; therefore, courage, good Aliena. Cel. I pray you, bear with me; I can go no further. 9 From seventeen years-] The old copy reads-seventy. The correction, which is fully supported by the context, was made by Mr. Rowe. Malone. 10 Jupiter! how weary are my spirits!] The old copy reads -how merry &c. Steevens. And yet, within the space of one intervening line, she says, she could find in her heart to disgrace her man's apparel, and cry like a woman. Sure, this is but a very bad symptom of the briskness of spirits: rather a direct proof of the contrary disposition. Mr. Warburton and I, concurred in conjecturing it should be, as I have reformed in the text:-how weary are my spirits! And the Clown's reply makes this reading certain. Theobald. She invokes Jupiter, because he was supposed to be always in good spirits. A jovial man was a common phrase in our author's time. One of Randolph's plays is called ARISTIPPUS, or The Jovial Philosopher; and a comedy of Broome's, The Jovial Crew, or The Merry Beggars. In the original copy of Othello, 4to. 1622, nearly the same mistake has happened; for there we find― "Let us be merry, let us hide our joys," instead of-Let us be wary. Malone. Touch. For my part, I had rather bear with you, than bear you:2 yet I should bear no cross,3 if I did bear you; for, I think, you have no money in your purse. Ros. Well, this is the forest of Arden. Touch. Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. Ros. Ay, be so, good Touchstone:-Look you, who comes here; a young man, and an old, in solemn talk. Enter CORIN and SILVIUS. Cor. That is the way to make her scorn you still. Cor. Into a thousand that I have forgotten. Or if thou hast not sat as I do now, Wearying thy hearers in thy mistress' praise, 2 I had rather bear with you, than bear you:] This jingle is repeated in King Richard III: 3 "You mean to bear me, not to bear with me." Steevens. · yet I should bear no cross,] A cross was a piece of money stamped with a cross. On this our author is perpetually quibbling. Steevens. 4 If thou remember'st not the slightest folly —] I am inclined to believe that from this passage Suckling took the hint of his song: "Honest lover, whosoever, "If in all thy love there ever "Was one wav'ring thought, if thy flame "Were not still even, still the same. "Know this, "Thou lov'st amiss, "And to love true, "Thou must begin again, and love anew," &c. Johnson. |