That makes me fee, and cannot feed mine eye? That weigh their pain in fenfe; and do fuppofe, SCENE V. Changes to the Court of France. Exit. Flourish Cornets. Enter the King of France, with letters, and divers Attendants. King. HE Florentines and Senoys are by th' ears; T1 A braving war. continue and kifs, like The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes native things. Imposible be strange attempts, to thofe That weigh their pain in sense ; and do fuppofe, What hath been, All these four lines are obscure, and, I believe, corrupt. I fhall propofe an emendation, which thofe who can explain the prefent reading, are at liberty to reject. Through mightiefi face in for- That is, Nature brings like qualities and difpofitions to meet through any distance that fortune may have fet between them; fhe joins them, and makes them kifs like things born together, The next lines I read with Impoffible be frange attempts to What ha'nt been, cannot be. New attempts feem impoffible to thofe, who eftimate their labour or enterprijes by sense, and believe that nothing can be but what they fee before them. 1 Lord. I Lord. So 'tis reported, Sir. King. Nay, 'tis moft credible; we here receive it, A certainty vouch'd from our cousin Auftria; With caution, that the Florentine will move us For fpeedy aid; wherein our dearest friend Prejudicates the business, and would feem To have us make denial. 1 Lord. His love and wisdom, Approv'd fo to your Majefty, may plead For ample credence. King. He hath arm'd our answer; 2 Lord. It may well ferve A nursery to our gentry, who are fick King. What's he comes here? Enter Bertram, Lafeu and Parolles. 1 Lord. It is the count Roufillon, my good Lord, young Bertram. parts King. Youth, thou bear'ft thy father's face. Frank nature, rather curious than in hafte, Hath well compos'd thee. Thy father's moral May't thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris. Ber. My thanks and duty are your Majefty's. King. I would, I had that corporal foundness now, As when thy father and myself in friendship First try'd our foldierfhip: he did look far Into the fervice of the time, and was Discipled of the brav'it. He lafted long; But on us both did haggish age fteal on, And wore us out of act. It much repairs me To talk of your good father; in his youth VOL. III. U He " He had the wit, which I can well obferve 6 So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness Were in his pride or fharpnefs, if they were, His equal had awak'd them; and his honour, He had the wit, which I can well obferve To day in our young Lords: but they may jeft, Till their own scorn return to them; unnoted Ere they can hide their levity in honour.] i. e. Ere their titles can cover the levity of their behaviour, and make it pass for defert. The Oxford Editor, not understanding this, alters the line and Stops are reform'd, these are moft beautiful Lines, and the Senfe is this" He had no "Contempt or Bitterness; if he "had any thing that look'd "like Pride or Sharpness (of "which Qualities Contempt and "Bitterness are the Exceffes,) "his Equal had awak'd them, "not his Inferior: to whom he "fcorn'd to difcover any thing "that bore the Shadow of Pride "or Sharpnefs." WARBURTON. The original edition reads the firft line thus, So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness. The fenfe is the fame. Nor was More nor lefs to others paying, The old text needs to be ex- Clock Clock to itself, knew the true minute when 'His tongue obey'd his hand. Who were below him He us'd as creatures of another place, And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks; In their poor praise he humbled: Such a man Which, follow'd well, would now demonstrate them Ber. His good remembrance, Sir, Lies richer in your thoughts, than on his tomb; 7 His tongue obeyed his band.] We should read, His tongue obeyed the band. That is, the band of his honour's clock, fhewing the true minute when exceptions bad him speak. 8 He us'd as creatures of and• ther place.] i. e. He made allowances for their conduct, and bore from them what he would not from one of his own rank. The Oxford Editor, not underftanding the fenfe, has altered another place, to a Brother-race. ୨ WARBURTON. 9 Making them proud of his humility, In their poor praife, he humbled. -] But why were they proud of his Humility? It fhould be read and pointed thus. -Making them proud; AND bis Humility, In their poor praife, he hum bled the gracious receiving their poor praife, he humbled even his bumility. The Sentiment is fine. WARBURTON. Every man has seen the mean too often froud of the humility of the great, and perhaps the greal may fometimes be humbled in the praises of the mean, of those who commend them without conviction or difcernment: this, however, is not fo common; the mean are found more frequently than the great. So in approof lives not his WARE. As in your royal fpeech.] As in your ryal fpeich. King: King. Would, I were with him! he would always fay, Methinks, I hear him now; his plaufive words Since I nor wax, nor honey can bring home, 2 Lord. You're loved, Sir; They, that leaft lend it you, fhall lack you first. King. I fill a place, I know't-How long is't, count, Since the phyfician at your father's died? He was much fam'd. Ber. Some fix months fince, my Lord. King. If he were living, I would try him yet;— Lend me an arm ;—the reft have worn me out With feveral applications-nature and sickness Debate it at their leifure-Welcome, count, My fon's no dearer. Ber. Thank your Majefty. [Flourish. Exeunt. faculties, than to invent new modes of drefs. SCENE |