Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn, Limp'd in pure love, 'till he be firft fuffic'd, Duke Sen. Go find him out, And we will nothing wafte till your return. Orla. I thank ye; and be blefs'd for your good com fort! SCENE IX. [Exit. Duke Sen. Thou feeft, we are not all alone unhappy : This wide and univerfal Theatre Prefents more woful pageants, than the scene Jaq. All the world's a Stage, And all the men and women meerly Players And then, the whining Ichool-boy with his fatchel, Made to his mistress' eye-brow. Then a foldier : Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice (8) Full of wife faws and modern inftances,] It is remarkable that Shakespeare uses modern in the double fenfe that the Greeks used nanov, both for recens and abfurdus. WARBURTON, I am in doubt whether modern is in this place used for abfurd: the meaning seems to be, that the justice is full of old fayings and late examples. And And fo he plays his part. The fixth age shifts (9). With fpectacles on nofe, and pouch on fide; Is fecond childifhnefs, and meer oblivion, SCENE X. Enter Orlando, with Adam. Duke Sen. Welcome. burden (1); Set down your venerable And let him feed. Orla. I thank you moft for him. Adam. So had you need, I scarce can speak to thank you for myself. Duke Sen. Welcome, fall to: I will not trouble you, As yet to question you about your fortunes. Give us fome mufick; and, good coufin, fing. (9) Amiens fings. SONG. Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not fo unkind As man's ingratitude; The fixth age shifts Into the lean and flipper'd pantaloon,] There is a greater beauty than appears at firft fight in this image. He is here comparing hu man life to a stage play, of feven acts, (which was no unusual divifion before our author's time.) The fixth he calls the lean and flipper'd pantaloon, alluding to that general character in the Italian comedy, called Il Pantalóne; who is a thin emaciated old man in Nippers; and well designed, in that epithet, because Pantalóne is the only character that acts in flippers. WARB. (1) Set down your venerable burthen.] Is it not likely that Shakespeare had in his mind this line of the Metamorphofes ? Patremque Fert humerus, venerabile onus Cythereius beras. Thy Thy tooth is not so keen (2), Because thou art not seen, (2) Thy tooth not so keen, Because thou are not seen,] This fong is defigned to fuit the Duke's exiled condition, who had been ruined by ungrateful flatterers. Now the winter wind, the fong fays, is to be,prefer'd to man's ingratitude. But why? Because it is not SEEN. But this was not only an aggravation of the injury, as it was done in fecret, not feen, but was the very circumftance that made the keehnefs of the ingratitude of his faithlefs courtiers. With out doubt, Shakespeare wrote the line thus, Because thou art not SHEEN, i. e. fmiling, fhining, like an ungrateful court-fervant, who flatters while he wounds, which was a very good reafon for giving the winter wind the preference. So in the Midsummer's Night's Dream, Spangled far light SHEEN, and several other places. Chaucer ufes it in this sense, You blissful fufter Lucina the SHENE. And Fairfax, The Sacred Angel took bis Target SHENE, The Oxford editor, who had this emendation communicated to him, takes occafion from thence to alter the whole line thus, Thou caufeft not that teen. But in his rage of correction, he forgot to leave the reason, which is now wanting, Why the winter wind was to be preferred to man's ingratitude. WARBURTON. I am afraid that no reader is fatisfied with Dr. Warburton's emendation, however vigorously enforced; and it is indeed enforced with more art than truth. Sheen, i. e. Smiling, Shining. That been fignifies fbining is eafily proved, but when or where did it fignify fmiling? yet fmiling gives the fenfe neceffary in this place. Sir T. Hanmer's change is lefs uncouth, but too remote from the prefent text. For my part I question whether the original line is not loft, and this fubftituted merely to fill up the measure and the rhyme. Yet even out of this line, by strong agitation, may fenfe be elicited, and fenfe not unfuitable to the occafion. Thou winter wind, fays the Duke, thy rudeness gives the less pain, as thou art not feen, as the art an enemy that doft not brave us with thy prefence, and whofe unkindness is therefore not aggravated by infult. Heigh Heigh bo! fing, beigh ho! unto the green bally. Moft friendship is feigning; moft loving meer folly: This life is molt folly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, As benefits forgot: The thou the waters warp, Duke Sen. If that you were the good Sir Rowland's Son, As you have whisper'd faithfully you were, And as mine eye doth his effigies witness, That lov'd your Father The refidue of your fortune -Support him by the arm; give me your hand, [Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I. N The PALACE. Enter Duke, Lords, and Oliver. DUKE. OT fee him fince ?-Sir, Sir, that cannot be But were I not the better part made mercy, I fhould not feek an abfent argument (3) Of my revenge, the prefent: but look to it; (3) An obfent argument--] An argument is ufed for the contents o a book, thence Shakespeare confidered it as meaning the subject, and then ufed it for fubject in yet another fenfe. VOL. II. M Find Find out thy brother, wherefoe'er he is ; Thy lands and all things that thou doft call thine, Oli. Oh, that your highness knew my heart in this : I never lov'd my brother in my life. Duke. More villain thou. doors; Well-Push him out of And let my officers of fuch a nature Make an Extent upon his house and lands: Do this expediently (4), and turn him going. [Exeunt. SCENE H. Changes to the FOREST. Enter Orlando. Orla. HANG there, my verse, in witnels of my love; And thou, thrice-crowned Queen of night, furvey (5), With thy chaite eye, from thy pale fphere above, Thy huntrefs' name that my full life doth fway. O Rojalind! thefe trees fhall be my books, And in their barks my thoughts I'll character ; That every eye, which in this Foreft looks, Shall fee thy virtue witness'd every where. Run, run, Orlando, carve on every tree, 'The fair, the chafte, and unexpreflive She (6). (Exit. (4) Expediently.] This is, expeditiously. (5) Thrice-crowned Queen of night,] Alluding to the triple character of Proferpine, Cynthia, and Diana, given by fome Mythologifts to the fame Goddefs, and comprifed in thefe memorial lines: Terret, luftrat, agit, Proferpina, Luna, Diana, Ima, fuperna, feras, fceptro, fulgore, fagittis. (6) Unexpreffive, for inexpreffible. SCENE |