; IMO. I am sprighted with a fool 5 Frighted, and anger'd worse :-Go, bid my woman Search for a jewel, that too casually Hath left mine arm; it was thy master's: 'shrew me, If I would lose it for a revenue Of any king's in Europe. I do think, I saw't this morning: confident I am, Last night 'twas on mine arm; I kiss'd it": That I kiss aught but he. PIs. IMO. I hope so: go, and search. CLO. His meanest garment? IMO. If you "Twill not be lost. [Exit Pis. You have abus'd me : Ay; I said so, sir. will make't an action, call witness to't9. CLO. I will inform your father. IMO. Your mother too: She's my good lady?; and will conceive, I hope, 5 I am SPRIGHTED with a fool;] i. e. I am haunted by a fool, as by a spright. Over-sprighted is a word that occurs in Law Tricks, &c. 1608. Again, in our author's Antony and Cleopatra : Julius Cæsar, 66 "Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted." STEEVENS. 6 — a jewel, that TOO CASUALLY Hath left mine arm;] That hath accidentally fallen from my arm by my too great negligence. MALONE. 7 Last night 'twas on my arm; I kiss'd it :] Arm is here used by Shakspeare as a dissyllable. MALONE. I must on this occasion repeat my protest against the whole tribe of such unauthorized and unpronounceable dissyllabifications. I would read the now imperfect line before us, as I suppose it came from our author : 8 "Last night it was upon mine arm; I kiss'd it." STEEVENS. call witness To'T.] I cannot help regarding the redundant-to't, as an interpolation. The sense is obvious and the metre perfect without it. STEEVENS. 9 She's MY GOOD LADY ;] This is said ironically. "My good lady" is equivalent to-my good friend. So, in King Henry IV. Enter POSTHUMUS and PHILARIO. POST. Fear it not, sir: I would, I were so sure To win the king, as I am bold, her honour Will remain hers. PHI. What means do you make to him? I barely gratify your love; they failing, PHI. Your very goodness, and your company, 3 Or look upon our Romans, whose remembrance Is yet fresh in their grief. Part II. : 66 - and when you come to court, stand my good lord, in your good report." MALONE. pray, Quake in the present WINTER'S STATE, and wish That warmer days would come :] I believe we should read winter-state, not winter's state. M. MASON. 2 He'll grant the tribute,] See p. 9, n. 7. MALONE. 3 OR look] This the modern editors had changed into E'er look. Or is used for e'er. So, Gawin Douglas, in his translation of Virgil: POST. 4 I do believe, (Statist though I am none, nor like to be,) Worthy his frowning at: Their discipline (Now mingled with their courages) will make known To their approvers', they are people, such "Or he his goddes brocht in Latio." See also King John, Act IV. Sc. III. STEEVENs. 4 (Statist- i. e. Statesman. See note on Hamlet, vol. vii. p. 489. STEEvens. 5 The LEGIONS,] Old copy-legion. Corrected by Mr. TheoSo, afterwards : bald. 6 "And that the legions now in Gallia are "Full weak to undertake our war," &c. MAlone. MINGLED with their courages)] The old folio has this odd reading: 66 Their discipline "(Now wing-led with their courages) will make known—.” JOHNSON. "Their discipline (now wing-led by their courages)" may mean their discipline borrowing wings from their courage;' i. e. their military knowledge being animated by their natural bravery. STEEVENS. The same error that has happened here being often found in these plays, I have not hesitated to adopt the emendation which was made by Mr. Rowe, and received by all the subsequent editors. Thus we have in the last Act of King John, wind, instead of mind; in Antony and Cleopatra, winds, instead of minds; in Measure for Measure, flawes, instead of flames, &c. MALONE. 7 To their APPROVERS,] i. e. To those who try them. WARBURTON. PHI. Enter IACHIMO. See! Iachimo? POST. The swiftest harts have posted you by land: And winds of all the corners kiss'd your sails, To make your vessel nimble. PHI. Welcome, sir. POST. I hope, the briefness of your answer made The speediness of your return. Ілсн. Your lady Is one of the fairest that I have look'd upon 9. POST. And, therewithal, the best; or let her beauty Look through a casement to allure false hearts', And be false with them. Іасн. Here are letters for you. POST. Their tenour good, I trust. Ілсн. 'Tis very like. PHI. Was Caius Lucius" in the Britain court, When you were there? 8 The swiftest harts have posted you by land, And winds of all the corners kiss'd your sails, To make your vessel nimble.] From this remark our author appears to have been conscious of his glaring offence against one of the unities, in the precipitate return of Iachimo from the court of Cymbeline. STEEVENS. 9 IS ONE THE fairest, &c.] So, p. 57: 66 And he is one "The truest manner'd-." The interpolated old copy, however, reads, to the injury of the Is one of the fairest," &c. or let her beauty STEEVENS. Look through a casement to allure false hearts,] So, in Timon of Athens: "Let not those milk paps, "That through the window bars bore at men's eyes, 2 Phi. Was Caius Lucius, &c.] This speech in the old copy is given to Posthumus. I have transferred it to Philario, to whom it certainly belongs, on the suggestion of Mr. Steevens, who VOL. XIII. G IACH. But not approach'd 3. POST. He was expected then, All is well yet.— Sparkles this stone as it was wont? or is't not Ілсн. If I have lost it, I should have lost the worth of it in gold. Your lady being so easy. POST. Not a whit, Make not, sir, Your loss your sport: I hope, you know that we Must not continue friends. Ілсн. If 4 Good sir, we must, you keep covenant: Had I not brought The knowledge of your mistress home, I grant We were to question further: but I now Profess myself the winner of her honour, Together with your ring; and not the wronger Of her, or you, having proceeded but By both your wills. POST. Іасн. Sir, my circumstances, justly observes that "Posthumus was employed in reading his letters." MALONE. 3 But not approach'd.] Sir Thomas Hanmer supplies the apparent defect in this line by reading : "But was not yet approach'd." STEEVENS. knowledge-] This word is here used in its scriptural acceptation: "And Adam knew Eve his wife :-" STEEVENS. |