Clo. Look then to be well edified, when the fool delivers the madman:-By the Lord, madam,Oli. How now! art thou mad? Clo. No madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship will have it as I ought to be, you must Óli. Pr'ythee, read i' thy right wits. [allow vox. Clo. So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits, is to read thus: therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear. Oli. Read it you, sirrah. Oli. Did he write this? Your master quits you; (To Viola.) and, for your your sex, So much against the mettle of A sister?-you are she. Ay, my lord, the same : Madam, you have done me wrong, Have I, Malvolio? no. Mal. Lady,you have. Pray you, peruse that letter: You must not now deny it is your hand, Or say, Write from it, if you can, in hand, or phrase; Why you have given me such clear lights of favour; Oli. Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing, | First told me, thou wast mad; then cam'st in smiling, Good madam, hear me speak; Oli. Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee! Clo. Why, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown upon them. I was one, sir, in this interlude; one sir Topas, sir; but that's all one :-By the Lord, fool, I am not mad;-But do you remember? Madam, why laugh you at such a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagg'd: and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Mal. I'll be revenged on the whole pack of von Exit Clo. When that I was and a little tiny boy, But when I came to man's estate, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, P. 83, c. 1, 1. 15. Of what validity and pitch soe- Id. 1. 18. That it alone is high-fantastical.] High- SCENE II. Id. c. 2, 1. 2. "This is Illyria, lady." MALONE. is to approve. Id. 1.57. Id. 1.58. SCENE III a sink-a-pace.] 1. e. a cinque-pace: the name of a dance, the measures whereof are regulated by the number five. Id. l. 74. flame-coloured stock.] i. e. stock ing. Id. 1. 77. Taurus? that's sides and heart] Alluding to the medical astrology still preserved in almanacks, which refers the affections of particular parts of the body to the predominance of particular constellations. JOHNSON. SCENE IV. --a barful strife! i. e. a P. 85, c. 1,7. 46 contest full of impediments. Id. l. 58. one. Id. l. 73. SCENE V. lenten anwser] a short and spare if one (point) break,] Points were metal hooks, fastened to the hose or breeches, (which had then no opening or buttons,) and going into straps or eyes fixed to the doublet, and thereby keeping the hose from falling down. BLACKSTONE. -no better than the fools' zaId c. 2, l. 64. nies.] i. e. fools' baubles, which had upon the top of them the head of a fool. DOUCE. --as tall a man-] Tall means stout, Id. 1.73 Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, Id. 1. 36. Id. 1. 59. Castiliano vulgo ;] a cant term, per- for thou speakest well of fools!] i. e. May Mercury teach thee to lie, since thou liest in favour of fools! P. 86, c. 1, 7. 14. a most weak pia mater. The pia mater is the membrane that immediately covers the substance of the brain. ] i. e. above proper above heat heat. Id. l. 31. Id. 1. 48. 11 stand at your door like a sheriff's ] It was the custom for that officer to have large posts set up at his door, 's an indication of his office: the original of which was, that the king's proclamation, and other public acts might be affixed thereon, by way of publication. or a codling when 'tis almost an Id. 1. 58 apple :] A codling auciently meant an imma ture apple 11 Id. c. 2, 12 I am very comptible,] Comptible for submissive. -1 am to hull here-] To hull means to drive to and fro upon the water, without 1. 28. sails or rudder. P. 86, c. 2, l. 29.- ▬▬▬ some mollification for your | giant, Ladies, in romance, are guarded by giants, who repel all improper or troublesome advances. Viola may likewise allude to the diminutive size of Maria, who is called, on subsequent occasions, little villain, youngest wren of nine, &c. Id. l. 60 Look you, sir, such a one as I was this present: Is't not well done?] The line should perhaps run thus: Look you, sir, such as once I was, this presents." Id. I. 63. Tis beauty truly blent.] i. e. blended, mixed together. Id 1 79. Though your beauty were unparalleled, it would not be more than a just recompense for such love as my master's. MALONE. P. 87, c. 1, l. 7. In voices well divulg'd,] Well spoken by the world. Id. l. 18. Write loyal cantons] for cantos. I fear that my eyes will seduce my understand- Id. l. 62. — Ourselves we do not owe;} i. e. we are not our own masters. We cannot govern ourselves. ACT II. SCENE 1. Id. c. 2, l. 3- To express myself] That is, to reveal myself. Id. l. 11. — the breach of the sea,] i. e. what we now call the breaking of the sea. Id. l. 15. — with such estimable wonder,] wonder and esteem. SCENE II. Id. l. 50." She took the ring of me!" MALONE. Id. 1. 67. the pregnant enemy -} i. e. enemy of mankind. Id. 1. 69. How easy is it for the proper-false In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!] How easy is it, for those who are at once proper (i. e. fair in their appearance) and false, (i. e. deceitful) to make an impress on on the easy hearts of women? 1d. 1. 72. How will this fadge?] To fadge, is to suit, to fit. SCENE III. P. 88, c. 1, l. 7. —— diluculo surgere,] saluberrinum est: an adage. Id. 1. 19. a stoop-] A stoop seems to have been something more than half a gallon. Id. 1. 25. the fool has an excellent breast.] i. e. voice. Id. 1. 31. I sent thee sixpence for thy leman :) i e. mistress. Id. 1. 34. I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose is no whipstock:] i. e. I did impetticoat or impocket thy gratuity, for Malvolio may smell our connection. Id. l. 43. of good life?] i. e. of a moral, or, perhaps, a jovial turn. Id. l. 65. - make the welkin dance-] That is, drink till the sky seems to turn round. Id. 1. 67. draw three souls out of one weaver?] i. e. hale the soul out of a weaver (the warmest lover of a song) thrice over; or, in other words, give him thrice more delight than it would give another man. MALONE. | Id. c. 2, l. 19. Tilly-valley, laay!) Tilly-valley was an interjection of contempt; or as Mr. Douce thinks, is a hunting phrase borrowed from the French. Id. 1. 25. coziers' catches-] A cozier is a tailor, or botcher. Id 1. 28 Sneck up!] Mr. Malone and others observe, that from the manner in which this cant phrase is employed in our ancient comedies, it seems to have been synonimous to the modern expression-Go hang yourself. STEEVENS. Id. 1. 53. —— rub your chain with crums :] Stewards anciently wore a chain as a mark of superiority over other servants. And the best method of cleaning any gilt plate, is by rubbing it with crums. Id. 1. 56. —— rule:] Rule is method of life. Id. l. 8. —— great swarths :] A swarth is as much grass or corn as a mower cuts down at one stroke of his scythe. Penthesilea. i. e. Amazon. call me Cut.] i. e. call me horse. SCENE IV. Id. l. 57. recollected -] Studied, or perhaps oft repeated. Id. 1. 77. favour -] i. e. countenance. Id. c. 2,1 23. free —] Is, perhaps, artless. free from art. Id. 1. 24. — silly sooth,] It is plain, simple truth. Id. 1. 25. And dallies with the—] Plays or trifles. Id. l. 26. the old age.] The ages past, times of simplicity. Id. 1. 31. The cypress wood, of which coffins were made. Id. l. 51. - nettle of India?] The nettle of I dia is the plant that produces what is called cow-itch, a substance only used for the pur pose of tormenting, by its itching quality. Id. l. 71. how he jets-] To jet is to strut. Id. c. 2, l. 2. the lady of the strachy-] No probable meaning has been discovered for this word by the commentators. Id. l. 7. my state,-] A state, in ancient lan guage, signifies a chair with a canopy over it Id. I. 10. —— come from a day-bed,] i. e. a couch. Id. l. 25. Though our silence be drawn from us with cars,] í. e. though it is the greates pain to us to keep silence. Id. 1. 68. — brock! i. e. badger; a term of con tempt. Id. l. 78. —— stannyel-] The stannyel is the common stone-hawk, which inhabits old buildings and rocks. P. 91, c. 1, l. 2. — formal capacity.] i. e. any one whose capacity is not out of form. Id. 1. 9. Sowter-Sowter is here perhaps the name of a hound. Id. 1. 36. Be opposite-] That is, be adverse, hostile. Id. 1. 48. Daylight and champian—] i. e. broad day and an open country. P, 91, c. 1,1. 51. ——I will be point-de-vice, i. e. with the utmost possible exactness. Id. 1. 70. - a pension of thousands to be paid from the Sophy.) Alluding, as Dr. Farmer observes, to Sir Robert Shirley, who was just returned in the character of embassador from the Sophy. He boasted of the great rewards he had received, and lived in London with the utmost splendor. Id c. 2, l. 1. tray-trip? some kind of game. Id. 1. 8. aqua-vitæ ] is the old name of strong waters. the list —] is the bound, limit, farthest point. JOHNSON. Id. 1. 39. - most preguant and vouchsafed ear.] Pregnant for ready; vouchsafed for vouch- | safing. "all three all ready." MALONE. Id. 1.65. "'beseech you." MALONE. I. 1. 73. To one of your receiving-] i. e. to one of your ready apprehension. Id. 1.74. -a cyprus,] is a transparent stuff. Id. c. 2, l. 3. a grise:1 is a step, sometimes written greese, from degres, French. Id.1 3. tis a vulgar proof, That is, it is a common proof. Id. 1. 38. And that no woman has ;] And that heart and bosom I have never yielded to any P. 94, c. 1, l. 15. —— midsummer madness ] 'Tis midsummer moon with you, is a proverb in Ray's Collection; signifying, you are mad. STEEVENS. Id. 1. 37. - I have limed her;] I have entangled or caught her. Id. c. 2, 1. 3. Id. I. 39. Fellow!] This word, which originally signified companion, was not yet totally degraded to its present meaning; and Malvolio takes it in the favourable sense. JOHNSON. cherry-pit-] Cherry-pit is pitching cherry-stones into a little hole. Id. l. 4. Hang him, foul collier!] Collier was, in our author's time, a term of the highest reproach. Id. 1. 27.. a finder of madmen] Finders of madmen must have been those who acted under the writ De lunatico inquirendo. P. 95, c. 1, l. 44. He is knight, dubbed with unhacked rapier, and on carpet consideration;] That is, he is no soldier by profession, not a knight banneret, dubbed in the field of battle, but, on carpet consideration, at a festivity, or on some peaceable occasion, when knights receive their dignity kneeling, not on the ground, as in war, but on a carpet. Mr. Malone reads unhatch'd. Id. l. 49. · hob, nob,] This adverb is corrupted from hap ne hap; as would ne would, will ne will; that is, let it happen or not; and signifies at random, at the mercy of chance; and is, perhaps, the origin of our hob nob, or challenge to drink a glass of wine at din ner. Id. c. 2, l. 10. "Firago."- MALONE.] A corruption of virago. Id. l. 11. the stuck-1] The stuck is a corrupted abbreviation of the stoccata, an Italian term in fencing. Id. l. 13. he pays you-] i. e. hits you, does for you. Id. l. 43. by the duello-] i. e. by the laws of the duello. Id. 1. 55. Nay, if you be an undertaker,] A man who takes upon himself the quarrel of another. ACT IV. SCENE I. P. 96, c. 2, l. 7. 1 pr'ythee, foolish Greek,1 Greek, was as much as to say bawd or pander. He understood the Clown to be acting in that Id. l. 46. In this uncivil and unjust extent—] Exoffice. tent in law, is taken here for violence in general. JOHNSON. SCENE II. Id. l. 73. The competitors enter.] That is, the confederates or associates. P. 97, c. 1, l. 23. —— it hath bay-windows-] A bay-window is the same as a bow-window; a window in a recess or bay. Id. l. 24. Clear story, a term in architecture, denoting the row of windows running along the upper part of a lofty hall or church. Id. 36. constant question.] i. e. regular conversation. come;] i. e. I Id. l. 50. Nay, I am for all waters.] Shakspeare is supposed to allude to the sense of the word water as used by jewellers, which makes a play of words with Topas. suppose he says, &c. Id l. 46. But in very strange manner. He is sure possess'd, madam." MALONE. Id. . 50. "Some guard"] Malone prints this speech as prose. Id. l. 53. "I am as mad as he." MALONE. Id. l. 78. propertied me ;] They have taken possession of me, as of me, as of a man unable to look to himself. 101 EXPLANATORY NOTES ON TWELFTH-NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL P. 97. c. 2, 1. 10. 1 am shent, &c.] i. e. scolded, | Id. 1. 17. - interchangement of your ring; In reproved. Id. l. 30. Like to the old vice,] The rice was the fool of the old moralities. SCENE III. Id. l. 45. Yet there he was, and there I found this credit,] i. e. account, information. ld. l. 51. all instance, all discourse.] Discourse, for reason. Instance is example. Id. l. 60.. deceivable. For deceptions. Id. l. 69.- Whiles- is until, and still so used in the northern counties. ACT V. SCENE L P. 98, c. 1, l. 58. --scathful,-) i. e. mischievous, destructive. Id. c. 2, l. 37. - as fat and fulsome-] Fat means dull. Id. 1. 48. Like to the Egyptian thief, &c.] This Egyptian thief was Thyamis, recorded in Heliodorus' Ethiopics. P. 99, c. 1, l. 4.--strangle thy propriety : Suppress, or disown thy property. our ancient marriage ceremong, the man received as well as gave a ring. Id. 1. 23. case?] Case is a word used con temptuously for skin. Id. 1. 62. Then he's a rogue. After a passy-measure, or a pavin, I hate a drunken rogue.] i. e. next to a passy-measure or a pavin, &c. It is in character, that sir Toby should express a strong dislike of serious dances, such as the passamezzo and the pavan are described to be. TYRWHITT. Mr. Malone reads, "and a passy measures pavin." Id. l. 67.- "Will you help? An ass-head, &c." MALONE. Id. c. 2, l. 2. A natural perspective.] A glass used for optical deception. Id. l. 16. Of charity,] i. e. out of charity, tell me, &c. Id. l. 78. A most extracting frenzy -] i. e. a frenzy that drew me away from every thing but its own object. P. 100. c. 1, 1.7. - you must allow vox.] i. e. my tone or voice. Id. 1. 61. geck,] A fool. Id. c. 2, l. 16. at sir Toby's great impor tance;] importunacy. Ia. 1. 36. - convents, i. e. shall serve, agree, convenient. be |