1 Boyet. Why, all his behaviours did make their To the Court of his eye, peeping thorough defire: Did point out to buy them, along as you past. An' you give him for my fake but one loving kifs. I only have made a mouth of his eye, By adding a tongue which I know will not lye. 1 Mar. He is Cupid's grandfather, and learns news of him.. Rof. Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim. Boyet. Do you hear, my mad wenches? Mar. No. Boyet. What then, do you fee? His tongue all impatient to Speak and not fee.] That is, bis tongue being impatiently defirous to fee as well as speak, To feel only looking.] Per haps we may better read, to feed only by looking. Roj. Ref. Ay, our way to be gone. Boyet. You are too hard for me'. ACT III. SCENE I. The Park; near the Palace. Enter Armado and Moth', ARMAD 0. ARBLE, child; make paffionate my fenfe of W hearing. Moth. Concolinel * [Singing. Arm. Sweet Air!-Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give inlargement to the fwain; bring him feftinately hither: I muft imploy him in a letter to my love. ? Boyet. You are too hard for me.] Here, in all the Books, the zd Act is made to end: but in my Opinion very miftakenly. I have ventur'd to vary the Regulation of the four last Acts from the printed Copies, for thefe Reasons. Hitherto, the 2d A& has been of the Extent of 7 Pages; the third but of 5; and the 5th of no less than 29. And this Difproportion of Length has crouded too many Incidents into fome Acts, and left the others quite barren. I have now reduced them into a much better Equality; and diftributed the Bufinefs likewife (fuch as it is) into a more uniform Caft. THEOBALD. Mr. Theobald has reafon enough to propose this alteration, but he fhould not have made it in his book without better authority or more need. I have therefore preferved his observation, but continued the former divifion. Enter Armado and Moth.] In the folios the direction is, enter Braggart and Moth, and at the beginning of every speech of Armado ftands Brag. both in this and the foregoing fcene between him and his boy. The other perfonages of this play are likewife noted by their characters as often as by their names. All this confufion has been well regulated by the later Editors. Here is apparently a fong loft. Moth. Mafter, will you win your love with a French brawl? Arm. How mean'ft thou, brawling in French? Moth. No, my compleat mafter; but to jig off a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet', humour it with turning up your eyelids; figh a note and fing a note; fometimes through the throat, as if you fwallow'd love with finging love; fometimes through the nofe, as if you fnufft up love by fmelling love; with your hat penthoufe-like, o'er the fhop of your eyes; with your arms croft on your thin-belly doublet, like a rabbit on a fpit; or your hands in your pocket, like a man after the old painting; and keep not too long in one tune, but a fhip and away: these are compliments, thefe are humours; thefe betray nice wenches that would be betray'd without thefe, and make the men of note: do you note men, that are most affected to these? 2 Arm. How haft thou purchas'd this experience? Arm. But O, but O Moth. The hobby-horfe is forgot +. Canary was the name of a fpritely nimble dance. THEOB. Dr. Warburton has here changed compliments to 'complishments for accompliments, but unneceffarily. 3 The former Editors: Arin. only inveigle to young Girls, but make the Men taken notice of too, who affect them. THEOBALD. Arm. But O, but ○ — Moth. The Hobby horse is forgot. In the celebration of Maythefe betray nice Wench- day, befides the fports now uted es, that should be betray'd suite of hanging a pole with garlands, out theje, and make them Men of and dancing round it, formerly Note.] But who will ever be a boy was dreft up reprefenting lieve, that the odd'Attitudes and Maid Marian; another, like a Affectations of Lovers, by which Fryar; and another rode on a they betray young, Wenches, Hobby-horfe, with bells jingling, thould have power to make thofe and painted ftreamers. After young Wenches Men of Nott'?' the' deformation took place, and Hi Meaning is, that they nos Precifians multiplied, thefe fatter rites Arm. Call'st thou my love hobby-horfe? Moth. No, mafter; the hobby-horfe is but a colt *, and you love, perhaps, a hackney: but have you forgot your love? : Arm. Almoft I had. Moth. Negligent ftudent, learn her by heart. Moth. And out of heart, mafter: all thofe three I will prove. Arm. What wilt thou prove? Moth. A man, if live: And this by, in, and out of, upon the inftant: by heart you love her, becaufe your heart cannot come by her: in heart you love her, because your heart is in love with her; and out of heart you love her, being out of heart that you cannot enjoy her. ⚫ Arm. I am all thefe three. Moth. And three times as much more; and yet nothing at all. Arm. Fetch hither the fwain, he must carry me a letter, Moth. A meffage well fympathis'd; a horse to be embaffador for an afs. Arm. Ha, ha; what fay't thou? upon Moth. Marry, Sir, you must fend the afs the horfe, for he is very flow-gated: but I go. Arm. The way is but fhort; away. Moth. As fwift as lead, Sir. Arm. Thy meaning, pretty ingenious? Is not lead a metal heavy, dull and flow? Moth. Minimè, honest master: or rather, mafter, no. Arm. I fay, lead is flow.. Moth. You are too fwift, Sir, to say so3.. Is that lead flow, Sir, which is fir'd from a gun ? He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he: Moth. Thump then, and I fly. [Exit. Arm. A moft acute Juvenile, voluble and free of grace; By thy favour, fweet welkin, I must figh in thy face. Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place. My herald is return'd. SCENE II. Re-enter Moth and Coftard. Moth. A wonder, master, here's a Coftard broken in a fhin. Arm. Some enigma, fome riddle; come,―thy l'envoy-begin. Coft. No egma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no falve in the male, Sir. O Sir, plantan, a plain plantan; no l'envoy, no l'envoy, or falve, Sir, but plantan. 7 No falve in the male, Sir.] The old folio reads, no falve in thee male, Sir, which in another folio, is no falve in the malt, Sir. What it can mean is not eafily discovered: if mail for a packet or bag was a word then in ufe, no falve in the mail may mean no falve in the mounte bank's budget. Or fhall we read, no egma, no riddle, no l'envoy-in the vale, Sir-O, Sir, plantain. The matter is not great, but one would wish for fome meaning or other. Arm. |