Phr. and Timan. Give us some gold, good Timon: hast thou more? Tim. Enough to make a whore forswear her trade, And to make whores, a bawd. Hold up, you sluts, Your aprons mountant; you are not oathable; 141 I'll trust to your conditions: be whores still; months, up; Be quite contrary: and thatch your poor thin roofs With burdens of the dead;-some that were hang'd, 133-134. That is, "enough to make whores leave whoring, and a bawd leave making whores.”—H. N. H. 143-144. "yet may contrary"; the meaning of this passage appears to be as Steevens explains it: "Timon had been exhorting them to follow constantly their trade of debauchery, but he interrupts himself and imprecates upon them that for half the year their pains may be quite contrary, that they may suffer such punishment as is usually inflicted upon harlots. He then continues his exhortations.-H. N. H. 144. "thatch your poor thin roofs"; the fashion of periwigs for women, which Stowe informs us "were brought into England about the time of the massacre of Paris," seems to have been a fertile source of satire. Stubbes, in his Anatomy of Abuses, says that it was dangerous for any child to wander, as nothing was more common than for women to entice such as had fine locks into private places, and there to cut them off. In A Mad World my Masters, No matter:-wear them, betray with them: Paint till a horse may mire upon your face: Phr, and Timan. Well, more gold: what then? In hollow bones of man; strike their sharp shins, That he may never more false title plead, And let the unscarr'd braggarts of the war 160 The source of all erection. There's more gold: 1608, the custom is decried as unnatural: "To wear periwigs made of another's hair, is not this against kind?" So Drayton, in his Mooncalf: "And with large sums they stick not to procure We have already met with several instances showing the Poet's mind towards this custom.-H. N. H. 153. "spurring"; Hanmer, "sparring"; Long MS., “spurning”; Seymour conj. "springing"; there is no need to emend the text.-I. G. 159. To "foresee his particular" is to provide for his private advantage, for which he leaves the right scent of public good.H. N. H. Do you damn others, and let this damn you, Phr. and Timan. More counsel with more money, bounteous Timon. Tim. More whore, more mischief first; I have given you earnest. Alcib. Strike up the drum towards Athens! Farewell, Timon: If I thrive well, I'll visit thee again. Tim. If I hope well, I 'll never see thee more. Alcib. I never did thee harm. Tim. Yes, thou spokest well of me. Alcib. Tim. Men daily find it. Alcib. 170 Call'st thou that harm? Get thee away, and take We but offend him. Strike! [Drum beats. Exeunt Alcibiades, Phrynia, and Timandra. Tim. That nature, being sick of man's unkindness, Should yet be hungry! Common mother, thou, [Digging. Whose womb unmeasurable and infinite breast Engenders the black toad and adder blue, 180 177. "Common mother"; this image, (as Warburton ingeniously supposes) would almost make one imagine that Shakespeare was acquainted with some personifications of nature similar to the ancient statues of Diana Ephesia Multimammia.-H. N. H. 179. "mettle"; material.-C. H. H. 181-183. "adder blue," etc.; the adder, the only poisonous English snake, is earth-colored; by blue is probably meant "livid." The |