Vo. VIIL TIMON OF "But cleare in act, and the most cleare in both; ATHENS. Again, in The Proceedings at the Arraignment of the Earls of Effex and Southampton, 1601: "And for the open action in the city, he [Southampton] concurred with Effex, with proteftution of the clearness of his mind, for any hurt to the queen's perfon." Again, in our author's Pericles: "Perfever in that clear way thou goest, and "The gods ftrengthen thee!" MALONE. 391. -I'll cheer up My difcontented troops, and lay for hearts.] A kindred expreffion occurs in Marlowe's Luft's Dominion, 1657: them "He takes up Spanish hearts on truft, to pay "When he fhall finger Caftile's crown." MALONE. 392. 'Tis honour with moft lands to be at odds] Perhaps the poet wrote: -with most lords The fenators throughout this play are called lords. 405. This is it, MALONE. That makes the wappen'd widow wed again.] The following paffage in The Two Noble Kinsmen induces me to think that wappen'd means ftale: -We come towards the gods "Young and unwapper'd, not halting under crimes "Many and ftale." I fuppofe we should here read unwappen'd, or perhaps in the text we ought to read-"the wapper'd widow. MALONE. 409. -bring down rofe-cheek'd youth] This expreffive epithet our author might have found in Marlowe's Hero and Leander : "Rofe-cheek'd Adonis kept a folemn feaft," MALONE. 417. Yes, thou pok'ft well of me.] Shakspeare, in this as in many other places, appears to allude to the facred writings: "Woe unto him of whom all men speak well!" MALONE. 419. This is in thee a nature but affected; A poor unmanly melancholy, fprung From change of fortune.] The first and fecond folio read infected, and change of future. Rowe made the alteration. MALONE. 422. Thou art a flave, whom Fortune's tender arm With favour never clafp'd;] In a collection of fonnets entitled entitled Chloris, or the Complaint of the paffionate defpifed Shep- Vo. VIII. beard, by William Smith, 1596, nearly the fame image is TIMON OF found: "Doth any live that ever had fuch hap MALONE. "That all their actions are of none effect? "Whom Fortune never dandled in her lap, "But as an abject ftill doth me reject." 432. -fince you profefs to do't] The old copy has: fince you proteft to do't MALONE. 439. Is not thy kindness, fubtle, covetous, If not a ufuring kindness?] To follow Tyrwhitt's note.-I do not fee any need of change. Timon afks-Has not thy kindness fome covert defign? Is it not propofed with a view to gain fome equivalent in return, or rather to gain a great deal more than thou offereft? Is it not at least the offspring of avarice, if not of fomething worse, of ufury? In this there appears to me no difficulty. MALONE. 441. Add to my note.] Again, in King Lear: 66 -In my true heart "I find the names my very deed of love." MALONE. 458. On: faults forgiven.] I have no doubt that Mr. Tyrwhitt's conjecture is right, and deserves a place in the text. On and one were anciently founded alike, and in the plays of Fletcher and Maffinger are perpetually confounded. Hence the tranfcriber's ear might have been easily deceived. MALONE. ΟΙ ATHENS. VO VOL. IX. Page 4. After note 3.] To be "fulfilled with grace and benediction," is ftill the language of our liturgy. TRO. AND 10. muft tarry the grinding.] Folio: CRESSIDA. muft needes tarry &c. MALONE, E. Ibid. When he comes!-when is fhe thence ? Folio: - —as Ibid. -Pour in the open ulcer of my heart Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait; her voice, In whofe comparifon &c.] There is no reason why Troilus fhould dwell on Pandarus's handling in his difcourfe the voice of his mistress, more than her eyes, her hair, &c. as he is made to do by this punctuation, to fay nothing of the harshness of the phrafe-to handle a voice. The paffage, in my apprehenfion, ought to be pointed thus: -Thou anfwer'ft, fhe is fair; Pour'ft in the open ulcer of my heart Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice; In whofe comparison all whites are ink &c. Handleft is here ufed metaphorically, with an allufion at the fame time to its literal meaning; and the jingle between hand and handleft is perfectly in our author's manner. The circumftance itfelf feems to have ftrongly impressed itself on his mind. Antony cannot endure that the hand of Cleopatra fhould be touched: -To let a fellow that will take rewards "And fay, God quit you, be familiar with 20. After note ".] Hliftus, in the Gothic language fignifies a thief. See Archæolog. Vol. V. p. 311. As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece Should hold up high in brafs; and fuch again As venerable Neftor, hatch'd in filver, Should with a bond of air-] After Steevens's note. In the following verfes in our author's Rape of Lucrece, nearly the fame picture is given. The fifth line of the firft ftanza ftrongly confirms Mr. Tyrwhitt's conjecture, who wishes to read-thatched in filver; or rather fupports Mr. Steevens's interpretation of the word in the text, which he has fhewn might bear the fame meaning. With respect to the breath or speech of Neftor, here called a bond of air, which Mr. Steevens has well explained, it is fo truly Shakfpearian, that I have not the smallest doubt of the genuineness of the expreffion. The ftanzas above alluded to are these : "There pleading you might fee grave Neftor ftand, "As 'twere encouraging the Greeks to fight, "Making fuch fober action with his hand, "That it beguil'd attention, charm'd the fight; "In fpeech, it seem'd his beard all filver white "Wagg'd up and down, and from his lips did fly "Thin winding breath, which purl'd up to the sky. "About him was a prefs of gaping faces, "Which feem'd to fwallow up his found advice, "All jointly lift'ning but with feveral graces, "As if fome mermaid did their ears entice, "Some high, fome low; the painter was so nice : "The fcalps of many almoft hid behind "To jump up higher feem'd, to mock the mind." What is here called fpeech that beguiled attention, is in the text a bond of air. Shakspeare frequently calls words wind. So, in one of his poems: "-Sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words." 35.—with a purpofe. Folio-in a purpose.. MALONE. 36. 'Twixt his ftretch'd footing and the fcaffoldage.] The galleries of the theatre, in the time of our author, were fometimes termed the scaffolds. See The Account of the ancient Thea tres, ante. MALONE. 36. Such to-be-pitied and o'er-refted feeming-] We should read, I think, o'er-wrefted. Wrefted beyond the truth; overcharged. The word hitherto given has no meaning. MALONE. VOL. IX. TRO. AND 1 VOL. IX. TRO- AND 39. I ask that I might waken reverence,] The folio has CRESSIDA. which is, I believe, right. Agamemnon says with surprize, "Do you ask how Agamemnon may be known ?” Eneas replies: "Ay, I afk (that I might waken reverence) "Which is that god in office &c." MALONE. Ibid. In my note, for-" So the folio. The quarto has:" read-So the quarto. The folio has JOHNSON. 40. In other arms than hers-] Arms is here ufed equivocally for the arms of the body, and the armour of a soldier. MALONE. 41. But if there be not in our Grecian hoft] The first and fecond folio read- -Grecian mould. MALONE. 42. That hath to its maturity blown up-] Folio: 43. this maturity. MALONE. -bring those honours off] Folio-his honour. MALONE. 44. The luftre of the better fhall exceed, By fhewing the worst first.] The folio reads: Shall fhew the better. The alteration was probably the author's. MALONE. 47. To follow Steevens's note.-In the preface to James Ift's Bible, the tranflators speak of fenowed (i. e. vinewed or mouldy) traditions. E. 51. Add to my note] Perhaps Achilles's brooch may mean, the perfon whom Achilles holds fo dear; fo highly eftimates. So, in Hamlet: 56. "He is the broach indeed, "And gem of all the nation." MALONE. -mid-age and wrinkled elders.] The folio has: -wrinkled old. Perhaps the poet wrote: -wrinkled eld. MALONE Ibid. Add to my clamours!] Folio-clamour. MALONE. 60. Then there's Achilles,-a rare engineer.] The folio has-enginer,-which feems to have been the word formerMALONE. ly ufed. So, truncheoner, pioner, mutiner, &c Ibid. without drawing the mafly iron,] Folio-irons. MALONE. 73. I'll lay my life, with my difpofer Greffida.] The words: I'll lay my life—are not in the folio. MALONE. 78. Son |