In same, To night puts on perfection, & a woman's name? The burden of one of Donne's Epithalamions. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. 491. Pygmalion's images, newly made woman, to be had now,. Lucio. How doth my dear morfel, thy mistress? Procures fhe ftill? Ha? Clo. Troth, fir, fhe hath eaten up all her beef, and the is herself in the tub. 8 Pygmalion's images, newly made woman,] By Pygmalion's images, newly made woman, I believe Shakspeare meant no more than-Have you no women now to recommend to your customers, as fresh and untouched as Pygmalion's ftatue was, at the moment when it became flesh and blood? The paffage, may, however, contain fome allution to a pamphlet printed in 1598, called, The Metamorphofis of Pygmalion's Image, and certain Satires. I have never feen it, but it is mentioned by Ames, p. 568;. and whatever its fubject might be, we learn from an order figned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, that this book was commanded to be burnt. The order is inferted at the end of the fecond, volume of the entries belonging to the Stationers' Company. STEEVEN. A pick-lock had just been found upon the Clown, and therefore without great offence to his morals, it may be prefumed he was likewise a pick.pocket; in which cafe Pygmalion's images, &c. may mean newcoined money with the Queen's image upon it. DOUCE. Lucio, a prating fop, meets his old friend going to prifon, and pours out upon him his impertinent interrogatories, to which when the poor fellow makes no answer, he adds, What reply ? ha? robat fay'ft thou to this? tune, matter, and method,is't not? drown'dith' left rain? ha? what fay't thou, trot 2 &c. It is a common phrafe used in low raillery of a man creft-fallen and dejected, that be looks like a drown'd puppy. Lucio, therefore, asks him, whether he was drozun'd in the last rain, and therefore cannot fpeak. JOHNSON. He rather asks him whether his anfwar was not drown'd in the last rain,, for Pompey returns no answer to any of his questions: or, perhaps, he means to compare Pompey's miferable appearance to a drown'd mouse. STEEVENS,. 2 It should be read; I think, what fay'st thou to't? the word trot being feldom, if ever, ufed to a man. Old trot, or trat, fignifies a decrepid old woman, or an old drak.. GREY. Trot, or as it is now often pronounced, honest trout, is a familiar addrefs to a man among the provincial vulgar. JOHNSON. 3 What is the mode now? JOHNSON. 4 The method of cure for venereal complaints is grofsly called the pow» dering tub. JOHNSON & Bow not. Leve not newly made womân wa in contra disinction to a maid? it seabove X in allusion to fish beef of cometimes pordend Auf 11 492 mmg bey called MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Lucio. Why, 'tis good; it is the right of it; it must be fo: Ever your fresh whore, and your powder'd bawdAn unfhunn'd confequence; it must be fo: Art going to prison, Pompey? Clo. Yes, faith, fir. Lucio. Why 'tis not amifs, Pompey: Farewell: Go; fay I fent thee thither. For debt, Pompey? Or how? s Elb. For being a bawd, for being a bawd. Lucio. Well, then imprifon him: If Imprifonment be the due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right: Bawd is he, doubtless, and of antiquity too; bawd-born. Farewell, good Pompey : Commend me to the prifon, Pompey: You will turn good hufband now, Pompey; you will keep the house." Clo. I hope, fir, your good worship will be my bail. Lucio. No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it is not the wear." Duke. And you. Lucio. Does Bridget paint ftill, Pompey? Ha? Clo. You will not bail me then, fir? Elb. Come your ways, fir; come. -What news abroad, Lucio. It fhould be pointed thus: Go, fay I fent thee thither for debt, Pompey; or bow-i. e. to hide the ignominy of thy cafe, fay, I fent thee to prifon for debt, or whatever other pretence thou fancieft better. The other humouroufly replies, For being a bawd, for being a bawd, i. e. the true cafe is the most honourable. This is in character. WARBURTON. I do not perceive any neceffity for the alteration. Lucio firft offers him the ufe of his name to hide the feeming ignominy of his case; and then very naturally defires to be informed of the true reafon why he was ordered into confinement. STEVENS. Warburton has taken some pains to amend this paffage, which does not require it; and Lucio's fubfequent reply to Elbow, fhows that his amendment cannot be right. When Lucio advises Pompey to fay he fent him to the prifon, and in his next speech defires him to commend him to the prifon, he speaks as one who had some intereft there, and was well known to the keepers. M. MASON. • Alluding to the etymology of the word busband, MALONE. 7 i. e. it is not the fashion. STE EVENS. Lucio. Go,-to kennel, Pompey, go:8 [Exeunt ELBOW, Clown, and Officers. What news, friar, of the duke? Duke. I know none: Can you tell me of any ? Lucio. Some fay, he is with the emperor of Ruffia; other fome, he is in Rome: But where is he, think you? Duke. I know not where: But wherefoever, I wish him well. Lucio. It was a mad fantastical trick of him, to steal from the state, and ufurp the beggary he was never born to. Lord Angelo dukes it well in his abfence; he puts tranfgreffion to't. Duke. He does well in't. Lucio. A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him: fomething too crabbed that way, friar. Duke. It is too general a vice, and feverity muft cure it. Lucio. Yes, in good footh, the vice is of a great kindred'; it is well ally'd: but it is impoffible to extirp it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put down. They fay, this Angelo was not made by man and woman, after the downright way of creation: Is it true, think you ? Duke. How fhould he be made then? Lucio. Some report, a fea-maid spawn'd him :-Some, that he was begot between two ftock-fishes :-But it is certain, that when he makes water, his urine is congeal'd ice; that I know to be true: and he is a motion ungenerative, that's infallible.* Duke. You are pleafant, fir; and fpeak apace. Lucio. Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the rebellion of a cod-piece, to take away the life of a man? Would the duke, that is absent, have done this? Ere he would have hang'd a man for the getting a hundred baftards, he would have paid for the nurfing a thoufand: He had fome feeling It should be remembered, that Pompey is the common name of a dog, to which allufion is made in the mention of a kennel. JOHNSON. 9 Yes, replies Lucio, the vice is of great kindred; it is well ally'd: &c. As much as to fay, Yes, truly, it is general; for the greatest men have it as well as we little folks. A little lower he taxes the Duke personally with it. EDWARDS. 2 A motion generative certainly means a puppet of the mafculine gender; a thing that appears to have thofe powers of which it is not in reality poffeffed. STEEVENS. A motion ungenerative is a moving or animated body without the power of generation. RITSON. feeling of the fport; he knew the fervice, and that instructed him to mercy. Duke. I never heard the abfent duke much detected 2 for women; he was not inclined that way. Lucio. O, fir, you are deceived. Duke. 'Tis not poffible. Lucio. Who? not the duke? yes, your beggar of fifty ;and his ufe was, to put a ducat in her clack-difh :3 the duke had crotchets in him: He would be drunk too; that let me inform you Duke. You do him wrong, furely. Lucio. Sir, I was an inward of his : A fhy fellow was the duke: 5 and, I believe, I know the caufe of his withdrawing. Duke. What, I pr'y thee, might be the cause? Lucio. No, pardon;-'tis a fecret must be lock'd within the teeth and the lips: but this I can let you underftand,The greater file of the fubject held the duke to be wife.. Duke. Wife? why, no queftion but he was. Lucio. A very fuperficial, ignorant, unweighing 7 fellow. Duke. Either this is envy in you, folly, or mistaking; the very stream of his life, and the business he hath helmed, muft, upon a warranted need, give him a better proclamation. Let him be but teftimonied in his own. bringings forth, and he fhall In the Statute 3d Edward Firft, c. 15. the words gentz rettez de felonie are rendered perfons detected of felony, that is, as I conceive, fufpected. REED. Detected, however, may mean, notoriously charged, or guilty. So, in North's tranflation of Plutarch: "he only of all other kings in histime was most deteed with this vice of leacherie." MALONE. 3 The beggars, two or three centuries ago, used to proclaim their want by a wooden-dish with a moveable cover, which they clacked, to show that their veffel was empty. This appears from a paffage quoted on another occafion by Dr. Grey. STEEVENS. 4 Inward is intimate. STEEVENS. 5 The meaning of this term may be best explained by the following lines in the fifth A&t: "The wicked'it caitiff on the ground, "May feem as by, as grave, as juft, as abfolute," &c. 6 The larger lift, the greater number. JOHNSON. ? ie. inconfiderate, &c. STEEVENS. MALONE. & The difficulties be bath fteer'd through. A metaphor from navigation.. STELVENS fhall appear to the envious, a fcholar, a statesman, and a fol. dier: Therefore, you speak unskilfully; or, if your know ledge be more, it is much darken'd in your malice. Lucia. Sir, I know him, and I love him. Duke. Love talks with better knowledge, and knowledge with dearer love. Lucio. Come, fir, I know what I know. Duke. I can hardly believe that, fince you know not what you fpeak. But, if ever the duke return, (as our prayers are he may, let me defire you to make your anfwer before him : If it be honeft you have spoke, you have courage to maintain it: I am bound to call upon you; and, I pray you, your name? Lucio. Sir, my name is Lucio; well known to the duke. Duke. He fhall know you better, fir, if I may live to report you. Lucio. I fear you not. Duke. O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you imagine me too unhurtful an oppofite. But, indeed, I can do you little harm: you'll forfwear this again. Lucio. I'll be hang'd firft thou art deceived in me, friar But no more of this: Canft thou tell, if Claudio die to-morrow, or no? Duke. Why fhould he die, fir? Lucio. Why? for filling a bottle with a tun-difh. I would, the duke, we talk of, were return'd again: this ungenitur'd agent will unpeople the province with continency; fparrows, muft not build in his houfe eaves, because they are lecherous. The duke yet would have dark deeds darkly anfwer'd'; he would never bring them to light: would he were return'd! Marry, this Claudio is condemn'd for untruffing. Farewell, good friar; I pr'ythee, pray for me. The duke, I fay to thee again, would eat mutton on Fridays.3 He's now paft it; yet, and I fay to thee, he would mouth with a beggar, though 9 i, e. opponent, adverfary. STEEVENS. 2. This word feems to be formed from genitoirs, a word, which occurs in Holland's Pliny, tom. ii. p. 321, 560, 589,, and comes from the French genitoires, the genitals. TOLLET. 3. A wench was called, a laced mutton. THEOBALD. ↑ Sir Thomas Hanmer reads-He is not paft it yet.. This emendation WAS |