EXAMP. VI. Vol. 6. P. 232. TIMON OF "Tim. You that way, and You this; - But two "in company. "Each man apart, all fingle and alone, "Yet an arch villain keeps him company. "If, where Thou art, two villains shall not be ; "Come not near Him.-If Thou would'ft not refide, "But where one villain is; then Him abandon." "This is an imperfect fentence; and is to be "supplied thus. But two in company spoils "all." WARB. The sentence is certainly complete; and has reference to the words preceding it. The whole speech turns upon the fame quibbling conceit; viz. That each of them, though alone, has a villain in his company: i. e. is himself a villain. CANON XIX. He may use the very fame reasons for confirming his own obfervations; which He has difallowed in his adversary. EXAMPLE I. Vol. 8. P. 350. OTHELLO. "Let him command; "Nor to obey fhall be in me remorse: "What bloody business ever." "The old copies read, And to obey—but evident"ly wrong: fome editions read, Not to obey; on "which the editor, Mr. Theobald, takes occafion to alter it to Nor to obey; and thought, he had. 3 " much " much mended matters. But he miftook the found "end of the line for the corrupt; and fo, by his ❝emendation, the deep designing Iago is foolishly "made to throw-off his mask, when he has most "occafion for it; and, without any provocation, "ftand before his captain a villain confefs'd; at a "time when, for the carrying on his plot he should "make the leaft fhew of it:" &c. WARB. To avoid this flagrant inconfiftency of character, Mr. Warburton affures us; that Shakespear wrote, and pointed the paffage thus ; Remord "Let him command, "And to obey shall be in me. "What bloody business ever. For the word remord, he quotes the authority of Skelton. The force and beauty of that phrafeto obey fhall be in me, to exprefs I will obey, is fo felf-evident; that it needs no authority. But now, in the very next note on those words of Iago, fix lines lower, 66 My friend is dead;" Mr. Warburton, having forgotten all the fine reafoning, on which this criticism is founded; fays, in flat contradiction to it; "I cannot but think, this is a very artful imitation of nature. Iago, "while he would magnify his fervices, betrays his "villainy. For was it poffible he could be honest, "who would affaffinate his friend? And not to "take at this, fhew'd the utmoft blindnefs of jealoufy." P. 351, 352 66 EXAMP. II. Vol. 5. P. 120. 3 HENRY VI. "Will coft my crown] Read COAST, i. e. hover "OVER it." WARB. How often has Mr. Warburton taken offense at Mr. Mr. Theobald and the Oxford editor, for violating the integrity of metaphors? Yet here he brings-in, unneceffarily, coaft, a term belonging to failing; to tally with a description, wherein the images are taken from flying-wing'd with defire-like an eagle. CANON XX. As the defign of writing notes is not fo much to explane the Author's meaning, as to display the Critic's knowlege; it may be proper, to fhew bis univerfal learning, that He minutely point out, from whence every metaphor and allufion is taken. EXAMPLE I. Paftry. Vol. 1. P. 387. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. "From fafting maids" "The metaphor is taken from fruits, preserved in "fugar." WARB. In order to continue the metaphor, we should alter fafting maids to pickled maids. EXAMP. II. Chandlery. Vol. 1. P. 396. Ibid. દ 66 you fhall stifle in your own report, "And Smell of calumny." Metaphor taken from a lamp or candle going "out." WARB. EXAMP. III. Embroidery. Ibid. P. 422. "Doth flourish the deceit❞— "A metaphor taken from embroidery." WARB. EXAMP. IV. Chefs. -P. 429.- lay myself in bafard" "A metaphor taken from Chefs-play." WARB. Rather, from Tennis. EXAMP. V. Bird-catching. Vol. 8. P. 328. OTHELLO. "That shall enmesh them all." "A metaphor from taking birds in meshes." P. Note, this will ferve alfo for fishing, "He and Aufidius can no more atone, "Than violenteft contrarietys." " can no more atone] This is a very fine expreffion; "and taken from unifon-ftrings giving the fame tone " or found." WARB. Attone, or rather attune, has that fignification, but atone is unite, make one. Thus Mr. W. himself explanes atone in ROMEO AND JULIET. Vol. 8. P. 71. The Deputy fet at one certain of the West Lords, that were at variance. K. Edw. VI's Journal P. 15. in Burnet's Hift. of the Ref. So alfo in Othello. Vol. 7. P. 461. "I would do much to atone them. "A phrase taken from traffic," &c. WARB EXAMP. VIII. Baking. •Vol. 6. P. 50. KING LEAR. "Unbolted villain' EXAMP. X. Man's or Woman's Taylor; And fince the quarrel "Will bear no colour for the thing he is, "Fashion it thus" The metaphor from the wardrobe; when the ex"cellence of the fashion makes out for the defect of "the colour." WARB. EXAMP. XI. Pocket-book. Vol. 4. P. 273. 2 HENRY IV. wipe his TABLES clean] Alluding to a tablebook of flate, ivory," &c. WARB. EXAMP. XII. Arithmetic. Vol. 6. P. 180. TIMON OF ATHENS. -" and these hard fractions] An equivocal allu"fion to fractions in decimal Arithmetic." WARB But why in decimal arithmetic? I doubt, Mr. Warburton does not understand, that decimal fractions are |
