The latest of my wealth I'll fhare amongst you. [He gives them money; they embrace, and part Oh, the fierce wretchednefs that glory brings us! To have his pomp, and all what state compounds, I'll ever ferve his mind with my best will; SCENE, the Woods. 'Enter TIMON. Tim. O bleffed, breeding fun, draw from the earth Rotten humidity: below thy fifter's orb Infect the air. Twinned brothers of one womb, Whofe procreation, refidence, and birth Scarce is dividant, touch with several fortunes; Raife me this beggar, and denude that lord, (22) It is the pasture lards the weather's fides, (23) (22) Raife me this beggar, and deny't that lord,] Where is the fenfe and English of deny't that Lord? Deny him what? What preceding noun is there, to which the pronoun it is to be referred? And it would be abfurd to think the Poet meant, deny to raife that Lord. The antithefis muft be, let fortune raise this beggar, and let her strip and defpoil that Lord of all his pomp and ornaments, &c. which fenfe is compleated by this flight alteration ; -and denude that Lord. Mr Warburton. I will beg leave to add, in confirmation of my friend's fine conjecture, that our Author has contrafted the fame thought, only varying the terms, in his Venus and Adonis, Stanz. 192: Pluck down the rich, enrich the poor with treasures. (23) It is the pafture lards the beggar's fides,] This, as the editors have ordered it, is an idle repetition at the beft; fuppofing it did, indeed, contain the fame fentiment as the foregoing lines. But Shakespeare meant a quite different thing; and having, like a sensible writer, made a smart obfervation, he illuftrates it by a fimilitude thus; It is the pasture lards the weather's fides,, And the fimilitude is extremely beautiful, as conveying this fatirical reflection; there is no more difference between man and man in the esteem of fuperficial or corrupt judgements, than between a fat fheep and a lean one. Mr Warburton, I cannot better praife the fagacity of my friend's emendation, than by producing the reading of the firft Folio edition, (which I know he had not feen) where we find it thus exhibited; The want that makes him lean. Who dares, whe In purity of manhood ftand upright, [dares, And fay, this man's a flatterer: if one be, Roots, you clear heavens! thus much of this will [make Bafe, noble; old, young; coward, valiant. Will knit and break religions; blefs th' accurfed;, It is the pafture lards the brother's fides, &c. Every knowing reader will agree, that this corruption might much more naturally be derived from weather's than from beggar's, as far as the traces of the letters are concerned, efpecially in the old fecretary handwriting, the univerfal character in our Author's time. I will only add, that our Poet, in his As you like it, makes a clown fay the very fame thing in a more ludicrous manner; . That the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn; that good pafture makes fat fheep, &c. That makes the wrappened widow wed again ; But yet I'll bury thee---thou'lt go, (strong thief) Alc. What art thou there? speak. Tim. A beast, as thou art. Cankers gnaw thyheart, For thewing me again the eyes of man! Alc. What is thy náme? is man fo hateful to thee, That art thyself a man? Tim. I am Mifantropos, and hate mankind. For thy part, I do with thou wert a dog, That I might love thee fomething, Alc. I know thee well: But in thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. Tim. I know thee too, and more than that I know thee, I not defire to know. Follow thy drum, With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules;- Then what fhould war be? this fell whore of thine: Phry. Thy lips rot off! Tim. I will not kifs thee, then the rot returns To thine own lips again. Alc. How came the noble Timon to this change? Tim. As the moon. does by wanting light to gives Alc. Noble Timon, what friendship may I do thee Tim. Promife me friendship, but perform none. If thou wilt not promife, the gods plague thee, for thou art a man: if thou doft perform, confound thee, for thou art a man! Alc. I've heard in fome fort of thy miferies. Timan. Is this th' Athenian minion, whom the Voiced fo regardfully? Tim. Art thou Timandra? Timan. Yes. [world [ufe thee: Tim. Be a whore ftill: they love thee not, that Give them diseases, leaving with thee their luft: Make use of thy falt hours, feafon the flaves For tubs and baths, bring down the rofe-cheeked To th' tub-fait, and the diet. (24) [youth (24) To th' fubfaft, and the diet.] One might make a very long and vain fearch, yet not be able to meet with this pre pofterous word fubfaft, which has notwithstanding paffed current with all the editors. The Author is alluding to the lues venerea and its effects. At that time the cure of it was performed either by guaiacum, on mercurial. unctions; and in both cafes the patient was kept up very warm and close; that in the first application the fweat might be promoted; and left, in the other, he should take cold, which was fatal. "The regimen for the course of guaiacum (fays Dr Friend in his hiftory of phyfic, vol. a. p. 380.) was at first ftrangely circumstantial, and se rigorous, that the patient was put into a dungeon in order to make him fweat; and in that manner, as Fallopius expreffes it, the bones and the |