He hath a kind of honour sets him off, Which you know, cannot err: The love I bear him you, Unlike all others, chaffless. Pray, your pardon. IMO. All's well, sir: Take my power i' the court for yours. LACH. My humble thanks. I had almost forgot Your lord; myself, and other noble friends, IMO. Pray, what is't? LACH. Some dozen Romans of us, and your lord, (The best feather of our wing") have mingled sums, To buy a present for the emperor; Which I, the factor for the rest, have done 8 editor of the second folio. Defend is again printed for descend, in the last scene of Timon of Athens. MALONE. So, in Chapman's version of the twenty-third book of Homer's Odyssey: 66 as he were "A god descended from the starry sphere." STEEVENS. taking a] Old copy, vulgarly and unmetrically, taking of a-." STEEVENS. 66 7 - best FEATHER OF OUR WING-] So, in Churchyard's Warning to Wanderers Abroad, 1593: "You are so great you would faine march in fielde, 8-being strange,] i. e. being a stranger. STEEVENS. To have them in safe stowage; May it please you To take them in protection? IMO. Willingly; And pawn mine honour for their safety; since My lord hath interest in them, I will keep them In my bed-chamber. Іасн. They are in a trunk, Attended by my men: I will make bold To send them to you, only for this night; I must aboard to-morrow. IMO. O, no, no. IACH. Yes, I beseech; or I shall short my word, By length'ning my return. From Gallia I cross'd the seas on purpose, and on promise IMO. I thank you for your pains; But not away to-morrow? Іасн. O, I must, madam: IMO. [Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I. Court before CYMBELINE'S Palace. Enter CLOTEN, and Two Lords. CLO. Was there ever man had such luck! when I kissed the jack upon an up-cast, to be hit away! 9-kissed the jack upon an up-cast,] He is describing his fate at bowls. The jack is the small bowl at which the others I had a hundred pound on't: And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him, and might not spend them at my pleasure. 1 LORD. What got he by that? You have broke his pate with your bowl. 2 LORD. If his wit had been like him that broke it, it would have run all out. [Aside. CLO. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths: Ha? 2 LORD. No, my lord; nor [Aside.] crop the ears of them'. CLO. Whoreson dog!-I give him satisfaction2? 'Would, he had been one of my rank! 2 LORD. To have smelt like a fool. [Aside. CLO. I am not more vexed at any thing in the earth,-A pox on't! I had rather not be so noble as I am; they dare not fight with me, because of the queen my mother: every jack-slave hath his belly full of fighting, and I must go up and down like a cock that no body can match. 2 LORD. You are a cock and capon too; and you crow, cock, with your comb on *. are aimed. He who is nearest to it wins. is a state of great advantage. JOHNSON. [Aside. "To kiss the jack" This expression frequently occurs in the old comedies. So, in A Woman Never Vex'd, by Rowley, 1632; "This city bowler has kissed the mistress at the first cast." STEEVENS. No, my lord, &c.] This, I believe, should stand thus: "1 Lord. No, my lord. "2 Lord. Nor crop the ears of them. [Aside." JOHNSON. 2 I GIVE him satisfaction ?] Old copy-gave. Corrected by the editor of the second folio. MALONE. Perhaps this is a ludicrous use of the duellist's phrase, ‘I gave him satisfaction; I broke his pate with my bowl.' BoSWELL. 3 To have SMELT] A poor quibble on the word rank in the preceding speech. MALONE. The same quibble has already occurred in As You Like It, Act I. Sc. II.: "Touch. Nay, if I keep not my rank "Ros. Thou losest thy old smell." STEEVENS. CLO. Sayest thou? 5 1 LORD. It is not fit, your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to. CLO. No, I know that: but it is fit, I should commit offence to my inferiors. 2 LORD. Ay, it is fit for your lordship only. CLO. Why, so I say. 1 LORD. Did you hear of a stranger, that's come to court to-night? CLO. A stranger! and I not know on't! 2 LORD. He's a strange fellow himself, and knows it not. [Aside. 1 LORD. There's an Italian come; and, 'tis thought, one of Leonatus' friends. CLO. Leonatus! a banished rascal; and he's another, whatsoever he be. Who told you of this stranger? 1 LORD. One of your lordship's pages. CLO. Is it fit, I went to look upon him? Is there no derogation in't? 1 LORD. You cannot derogate, my lord. CLO. Not easily, I think. 2 LORD. You are a fool granted; therefore your issues being foolish, do not derogate. [Aside. CLO. Come, I'll go see this Italian: What I have lost to-day at bowls, I'll win to-night of him. Come, go. 2 LORD. I'll attend your lordship. [Exeunt CLOTEN and first Lord. That such a crafty devil as is his mother Should yield the world this ass! a woman, that with your comb on.] The allusion is to a fool's cap, which hath a comb like a cock's. JOHNSON. The intention of the speaker is to call Cloten a coxcomb. 5 - M. MASON. every COMPANION] The use of companion was the same as of fellow now. It was a word of contempt. JOHNSON. It occurs with this meaning frequently in Shakspeare. MALONE. Bears all down with her brain; and this her son Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act Of the divorce he'd make! The heavens hold firm stand, To enjoy thy banish'd lord, and this great land! SCENE II. [Exit. A Bed-chamber; in one Part of it a Trunk. IMOGEN reading in her Bed; a Lady attending. IMO. What hour is it? LADY. Please you, madam. Almost midnight, madam. IMO. I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak: Fold down the leaf where I have left: To bed: Take not away the taper, leave it burning; I pr'ythee, call me. Sleep hath seiz'd me wholly. [Sleeps. LACHIMO, from the Trunk. 6 From fairies, and the tempters of the night,] Banquo, in Macbeth, has already deprecated the same nocturnal evils: |