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And not as our confusion, all thy powers
Shall make their harbor in our town, till we
Have seal'd thy full desire.

Alcib.

Then there's my glove;
Descend, and open your uncharged ports:
Those enemies of Timon's, and mine own,
Whom you yourselves shall set out for reproof,
Fall, and no more: and, to atone your fears
With my more noble meaning, not a man
Shall
his quarter, or offend the stream
pass
Of regular justice in your city's bounds,
But shall be render'd to your public laws
At heaviest answer.

Both.

"Tis most nobly spoken.

Alcib. Descend, and keep your words.

60

[The Senators descend, and open the gates.

Enter Soldier.

Sold. My noble general, Timon is dead;

Entomb'd

upon the very hem o' the sea;

And on his grave-stone this insculpture, which With wax I brought away, whose soft impression

Interprets for my poor ignorance.

Alcib. [Reads]

'Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:

70

62. "render'd to your"; the conj. of Chedworth, adopted by Dyce; F. 1 reads "remedied to your"; Ff. 2, 3, 4, "remedied by your"; Pope, "remedied by"; Johnson, "remedied to"; Malone, "remedy'd, to your"; Singer (ed. 2), “remitted to your."—I. G.

70-73. What is here given as one epitaph is really a combination of two, as may be seen by the passage from North's Plutarch quoted in our Introduction. The reader will of course observe the

Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked caitiff's left!

Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:

Pass by and curse thy fill; but pass and stay not here thy gait.'

These well express in thee thy latter spirits

Though thou abhorr❜dst in us our human griefs,
Scorn'dst our brain's flow and those our droplets
which

From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit
Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for

aye

On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead
Is noble Timon: of whose memory

Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,
And I will use the olive with my sword,

80

inconsistency between the two couplets, the first saying,-"Seek not
my name"; the second,-"Here lie I, Timon." How the two got thus
thrown together, it were vain to speculate: possibly the Poet was
in doubt which to choose, and so copied them both, and then neg-
lected to erase the one which he meant to reject. See, however, the
Introduction. In the Palace of Pleasure the epitaph is given thus:
"My wretched catife dayes expired now and past,
My carren corps intered here is fast in grounde,
In waltering waves of swelling sea by surges cast:
My name if thou desire, the gods thee doe confounde."

-H. N. H.

The first two lines are a rendering of Timon's own epitaph; the last two were ascribed generally to the poet Callimachus. Lines 71-72 are contradictions. Both epitaphs, however, occur in close succession in the Plutarchian narrative, whence they were doubtless copied by the author without reflection.-C. H. H.

79. "On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead"; the reading of Ff.; Theobald reads "On thy low grave.-On: faults forgiven.— Dead"; Hanmer, "On thy low grave our faults—forgiv'n, since dead.” -I. G.

1

Make war breed peace, make peace stint war,

make each

Prescribe to other as each other's leech.
Let our drums strike.

[Exeunt.

GLOSSARY

By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A.

ABHOR HIMSELF, make himself abhorred; (Hanmer, "make himself abhorr'd"); I. i. 60. ACHES (dissyllabic); I. i. 257. ADVANCE, promote, raise to honor; I. ii. 181.

AFFECT, like, desire; I. ii. 231. ALLOW'D, trusted, invested by public authority; (Warburton, "Hallow'd"); V. i. 169. ALL TO YOU, "all good wishes to you"; I. ii. 247.

ALTERATION; "a. of honor," i. e. change to dishonor; IV. iii. 478.

AMPLE, amply; I. ii. 140.
APPERIL, peril; I. ii. 32.
ARGUMENT, contents; II. ii. 189.
-, subject, theme; III. iii. 20;
III. v. 23.

[blocks in formation]

used of servile followers; IV. iii. 175.

BEAR, bear off; I. i. 131. BECKS, nods; I. ii. 251. BEHAVE, govern; III. v. 22. BENEATH, lower, below; I. i. 44. BEST, that which can be most depended upon; (S. Walker conj. "last"); III. iii. 37. BLAINS, botches; IV. i. 28. BLOOD, temper; (Johnson conj. "mood"); IV. ii. 38.

Bound, bank, boundary; I. i. 25. BRAIN'S FLOW, tears; (Hanmer,

"brine's flow"); V. iv. 76. BREATH, Voice; IV. iii. 249. BREATHE, utter; III. v. 32. BREATHED, trained; ("inured to constant practice; so trained as not to be wearied; To breathe a horse is to exercise him for the course"); I. i. 10. BRING, conduct; V. i. 126. BRUISE, crush, destroy; III. v. 4. BRUIT, rumor; V. i. 200. By, according to; I. i. 171. BY MERCY, (?) by your leave; III. v. 55.

Candied, congealed; IV. iii. 226. CAP, top, principal; IV. iii. 367. CARPER, censurer; IV. iii. 209. CAUDLE, serve as a caudle, refresh; IV. iii. 226.

CEASED, Stopped, silenced; II. i. 16.

CHARACTER, Writing; V. iii. 6. CHARGE, Commission; III. iv. 25. CHARITABLE; “ch. title,” i. e. title

of endearment; I. ii. 95. CHEERLY, cheerfully; II. ii. 225. CLEAR, pure; IV. iii. 27.

CLOSE, (?) closely; IV. iii. 398. COCK; "wasteful c.," (v. Note); II. ii. 173.

COG, deceive; V. i. 98.

COIL, ado, confusion; I. ii. 250. COLD-MOVING, distant; II. ii. 223. COMES OFF WELL, i. e. is well done; I. i. 29.

COMFORTABLE, comforting; IV. iii. 508.

COMPOSTURE, compost; IV. iii. 456.

COMPT; "in c.", i. e. for the computation of the interest due; (Ff., "in. Come"; Hanmer, "in "count"; Keightley conj. "in mind"); II. i. 34.

CONCEPTIOUS, fruitful; IV. iii. 187.

CONDITION, (?) art; (perhaps "would be well express'd in our c.," "would find a striking parallel in our state," Schmidt); I. i. 77. CONDITIONS, inclinations (perhaps="vocations"); IV. iii.

139.

CONFECTIONARY, store for sweets; IV. iii. 260.

CONFOUND, destroy; IV. iii. 342. CONFOUNDING, causing ruin; IV. i. 20.

CONFOUNDING, ruinous; IV. iii. 402.

CONFUSION, destruction; IV. iii. 327.

-, ruin; V. iv. 52. CON THANKS, be thankful; IV. iii. 440.

CONTINUATE, continual; I. i. 11.

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CONTRARIES, contrarieties; IV. i.

20.

CONVERT, turn; IV. i. 7.

CORINTH, a cant name for a brothel; II. ii. 73.

COUCH'D; "are c.," lie low, have disappeared; II. ii. 183. COUNTERFEIT, portrait, likeness; V. i. 87.

COURAGE, disposition; III. iii. 24. CROWN'D, glorified; II. ii. 192. CUNNING, profession; IV. iii. 209. CURIOSITY; Scrupulousness, fastidiousness; IV. iii. 303.

DATE-BROKE, date-broken; (Ff., "debt, broken"; Malone, "datebroken"); II. ii. 38.

DEAR, used intensively; IV. iii. 392.

Dear, extreme, desperate; V. i. 235.

DEAREST, utmost; I. i. 124. DEDICATED; "a d. beggar to the air," i. e. a beggar dedicated to the air; IV. ii. 13.

DEED OF SAYING, doing what one promises; (Pope reads "deed"); V. i. 30. DEFILED, used with a play upon "pitch'd" (suggestive of "pitch that doth defile," cp. 1 Henry IV., II. iv. 415); I. ii. 243. DEPART, part; I. i. 264. DEPRAVED, slandered; I. ii. 149. DEPRAVES, slanders; I. ii. 149. DESERTS; "all d.," i. e. all kinds of men; I. i. 65.

DICH, a corruption of "do it," due to the phrase "d'it yễ" (the y palatalising the t); I. ii. 74.

DISCHARGED, paid; II. ii. 12. DISCOVERY, disclosing; V. i. 40. DISFURNISH, deprive of means; III. ii. 52.

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