And not as our confusion, all thy powers Alcib. Then there's my glove; 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, From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit aye On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead Hereafter more. Bring me into your city, 80 inconsistency between the two couplets, the first saying,-"Seek not -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. [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. 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. XXXIII-9 129 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. |