-go to:-very good:-exceeding good.-O, give me always a little, lean, old, chopp'd, bald "fhot.- Well faid, Wart; thou'rt a good fcab: hold, there's a tester for thee. Shal. He is not "his craft's mafter, he doth not do it right. I remember at Mile-end green (when I lay at Clement's-inn, I was then fir Dagonet in Arthur's fhow) there was a little P quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus: and 'a would about, and about, and come you in, and come you in: rab, tab, tab, would 'a fay; bounce, would 'à fay; and away again would 'a go, and again would 'a come;-I fhall never fee fuch a fellow. Fal. These fellows will do well, mafter Shallow.-God keep you, mafter Silence; I will not ufe many words with you :-Fare you well, gentlemen both: I thank you: I must a dozen mile to-night.-Bardolph, give the foldiers coats. Shal. Sir John, heaven blefs you, and profper your af fairs, and send us peace! As you return, visit my houfe; let our old acquaintance be renew'd: peradventure, I will with you to the court. Fal. I would you would, mafter Shallow. Shal. Go to; I have spoke, at a word. Fare you well. [Exeunt Shallow, and Silence. Fal. Fare you well, gentle gentlemen.-On, Bardolph; lead the men away.-[Exeunt Bardolph, Recruits, &c.]— As I return, I will fetch off thefe juftices: I do fee the bottom of juftice Shallow. Lord, lord, how fubject we old men are to this vice of lying! This fame ftarv'd justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his foot-shooter. "bis craft's mafter]-expert at his exercife. (when I lay at Clement's-inn, I was then fir Dagonet in Arthur's Bow)]-When I lived, was a ftudent at Clement's-inn, and was fo young as to be unfit to act any higher part, than that of King Arthur's fool or fquire, in an interlude performed by the members of that foP quiver]-nimble, active. ciety. youth, youth, and the feats he hath done about Turnbull-street; and every third word a lie, duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute. I do remember him at Clement'sinn, like a man made after fupper of a cheese-paring: when he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a fork'd radish, with a head fantastically carv'd upon it with a knife: he was 'fo forlorn, that his dimenfions to any thick fight were invifible: he was the very Genius of famine; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the whores call'd him-mandrake: he came ever in the rear-ward of the fashion; and fung thofe tunes to the over-fcutcht hufwives, that he heard the carmen whistle, and fware-they were his fancies, or his good-nights. And now is this vice's dagger become a fquire; and talks as familiarly of John of Gaunt, as if he had been fworn brother to him: and I'll be fworn he never faw him but once in the Tiltyard; and then he * burft his head, for crouding among the marshal's men. I faw it; and told John of Gaunt, he > beat his own name: for you might have trufs'd him, and all his apparel, into an eel-fkin; the cafe of a treble hautboy was a manfion for him, a court: and now hath he land and beeves. Well; I will be acquainted with him, if I return and it shall go hard, but I will make him a philofopher's two ftones to me: If the young dace be bait for the old pike, I fee no reafon, in the law of nature, but I may fnap at him. Let time thape, and there an end. Turnbull-freet ;]-a noted refort of whores and bullies. * burst]-brake. [Exeunt. You will not pay for the glaffes you have burst." TAMING OF THE SHREW, Vol. II. p. 273. Hoft. • beat his own name:]—a person so flender, as might well bear that RICHARD II. Vol. III. p. 390. Gaum. name. 2 a philofopher's two flones to me :]-as valuable as two of them. ACT ACT IV. SCENE I I. A Foreft in Yorkshire. Enter the Archbishop of York, Mowbray, Hastings, and others. York. What is this foreft call'd? Haft. 'Tis Gualtree foreft, an't fhall please your grace. York. Here ftand, my lords; and fend discoverers forth, To know the numbers of our enemies. Haft. We have fent forth already. My friends, and brethren in these great affairs, Their cold intent, tenour and fubftance, thus:— Mowb. Thus do the hopes we had in him touch ground, And dash themselves to pieces. Enter a Messenger. Haft. Now, what news? Meff. Weft of this foreft, fcarcely off a mile, In goodly form comes on the enemy: And, by the ground they hide, I judge their number Mowb Mowb. The juft proportion that we gave them out. Let us fway on, and face them in the field. a Enter Westmoreland. York. What well-appointed leader fronts us here? Weft. Then, my lord, Unto your grace do I in chief addrefs The fubftance of my speech. If that rebellion b Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rage, With your fair honours. You, lord archbishop,- d Whose beard the filver hand of peace hath touch'd ; e Whofe white investments figure innocence, The dove and very bleffed fpirit of peace, afway on,]-march, bend our steps; alluding to the wary figure of an army in motion. • guarded web roge,]—ill guarded, under the wild control of paffion. Never anger d "Made good guard for itfelf." ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, A& IV. S. 1. Mec. a civil peace]- the folemn bonds of. filver band of peace bath touch'd;]-peaceful age hath filver'd o'er. e white investments]-the rochet. VOL. III. Tt Where Wherefore do you fo ill tranflate yourself, Out of the speech of peace, that bears fuch grace, Turning your books to 'greaves, your ink to blood, York. Wherefore do I this?-fo the question stands. Troop in the throngs of military men: What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer, And find our griefs heavier than our offences. We fee which way the ftream of time doth run, And have the fummary of all our griefs, Which, long ere this, we offer'd to the king, And might by no fuit gain our audience: When we are wrong'd, and would unfold our griefs, f greaves,]-armour for the legs;-graves ;-glaives-Swords-quit. Ang your ftudies for the purfuit of arms. |