The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson and Stevens [sic].

Abb Hath he not lost much wealth by

wreck at sea? udal elleye Bury'd some dear friend? Hath not else his Stray'd his affection in unlawful love? A sin prevailing much in youthful men, Who give their eyes the liberty of gizing, A Which of these sorrows is he subject to? Adr. To none of these, except it be the last; Namely me. some love, that drew him oft from [him. Abb. You should for that have reprehended Adr. Why, so I did. 9-9. Abb.

Ay, but not rough enough.
Adr. As roughly as my modesty would let
Abb. Haply, in private.' 2..\{me.
Adr.
And in assemblies too.
Abb. Ay, but not enough # 18t of
Adr. It was the copy of our conference:
In bed, he slept not for my urging it; l
At board, he fed not for my urging it;
Alone, it was the subject of my theme;
In company, I often glanced it

Still did I tell him it was vile and bad. [mad:
Abb. And thereof came it, that the man was
The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing:
And thereof comes it that his head is light.
Thou say'st, his meat was sauced with thy up-
Unquiet meals make ill digestions, [braidings:
Thereof the raging fire of fever bred;
And what's a fever a fit of madness?

Thou say'st, his but a hinder'd by thy

brawls

were

Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue,
But moody and dull melancholy,

(Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair;)
And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life?
In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest
To be disturb'd, would mad or man, or beast;
The consequence is then, thy jealous fits
Have scared thy husband from the use of wits.
Luc. She never reprehended him but mildly,
When he demean'd himself rough, rude, and
wildly,-

Why bear you these rebukes, and answer not?
Adr. She did betray me to my own reproof.
Good people, enter, and lay hold on him.

Abb. No, not a creature enters in my house. Adr. Then, let your servants bring my husforth. [tuary. Abb. Neither he took this place for sancAnd it shall from your hands,

Till I have brough him to his wits again,,

Or lose my labour in assaying it.

Adr. I will attend my husband, be his nurse, Diet his sickness, for it is my office, And will have no attorney but myself; And therefore let me have him home with me. Abb. Be patient: for 1 will not let have stir, Till I have used the approved means I

With wholesome, syrups, drugs, and holy prayers C7 C To make of him a formal man again+:

The theme.

And never rise until my tears and prayers Have won his grace to come in person hither, And take this, I think, the dial points at five: husband from the abbess.

Mer. By

Anon, I am sure, the duke himself in person
Comes this way to the melancholy vale;
The place of death and sorry execution,
Behind the ditches of the abbey here.
Ang. Upon what cause?

Mer. To see a reverend Syracusan mer Who put unluckily into this bay [chant, Against the laws and statutes of this town, Beheaded publicly for his offence.

Aug, See, where they come; we will behold his death.ital

Tabbey. Luc. Kneel to the duke, before he pass the Enter Duke attended; ÆGEON bare-headed; with the Headsman and other Officers. Duke. Yet once again proclaim it publicly, Ifany friend will pay the sum for him, He shall not die, so much we tender him. Adr. Justice, nost sacred duke, against the abbess!

[lady; Duke. She is a virtuous and a reverend It cannot be, that she hath done thee wrong. "Adr. May it please your grace, Antipholus, my husband,

Whom I made tord of me and all I bad,
At your important]] letters,—this ill day al
A most outrageous fit of madness took him;
That desperately he hurried through the street,
(With him his bondman, all as mad as he,)
Doing displeasure to the citizens
By rushing in their houses, bearing thence
Rings, jewels, any thing his rage did like.
Once did I get him bound and sent him home,
Whilst to take order ¶ for the wrongs I went,
That here and there his fury had committed.
Anon, I wot** not by what strong escape,
He broke from those that had the guard of him;
And, with his mad attendant and himself,
Bach one with ireful passion, with drawn
Met us again, and, madly bent on us, [swords,
Chased us away; till raising of more aid,
We came again to bind them then they fled
Into this abbey, whither we pursued them;
And here the abbess shuts the gates on us,
And will not suffer us to fetch him out, [hence.
Nor send him forth, that we may bear him
Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy com
mand,
but I [help.

Let him be brought forth, and borne hence for Duke. Long since, thy husband served me in my wars; blood bit s

ti. e., To bring him back to His senses. Importunate. Te, To take measures.

And I to thee engaged a prince's word,
When thou didst make him master of thy bed,
To do him all the grace and good. I could.
Go, some of you, knock at the abbey gate,.
And bid the lady abbess come to me;
I will determine this, before I stir.

Enter a Servant.

Serv. O mistress, mistress, shift and save to yourself!!

My master and his man are both broke loose,
Beaten the maidsa-row, and bound the doctor,
Whose beard they have singed off with brands
And ever as it blazed they threw on him [of fire;
Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair:
My master preaches patience to him, while
His man with scissors nicks him like a fool:
And, sure, unless you send some present help,
Between them they will kill the conjurer.
Adr. Peace, fool, thy master and his man
19 are here;

And that is false thou dost report to us. (
Serv. Mistress, upon my dife, I tell you true;
I have not breathed almost, since I did see it.
He cries for you, and vows, if he can take you,
To scorch your face and to disfigure you:
[Cry within.
Hark, hark, I hear him, mistress; fly, be gone.
Duke. Come, stand by me, fear nothing:
Guard with halberds.

Adr. Ah me, it is my husband! Witness you,
That he is borne about invisible:
Even now we honsed him in the abbey here;
And now he's there, past thought of human

reason.

Enter ANTIPHOLUS and DROMIO of
Ephesus.

med

Ant. El Justice, most gracious duke, oh,
grant me justice!

Even for the service that long since I did thee,
When I bestrid thee in the wars, and took
Deep scars to save thy life; even for the blood
That then I lost for thee, now grant me justice.
Ege. Unless the fear of death doth make me
I see my son Antipholus and Dromio. [dote,
Ant. E. Justice, sweet prince, against that
woman there
MA

She whom thou gavest to me to be my wife;
That hath abused and dishonour'd me,
Even in the strength and height of injury !\
Beyond imagination is the wrong, .J. A
That she this day hath shameless thrown on me.
Duke. Discover how, and thou shalt findine
Sejust. ***** (761-763 h doors upon me,
Ant. E. This day, great dake, she shot the
While slie with harlots feasted in my house.
Duke. A grievous fault: Say, woman, didst
bad thou so??? 10 nm bnk [my sister,
Adr. No, my good lord-myself, he, and
To-day did dine together: So befal my soul,
As this is false, he burdens me withal [night,
Luc. Ne'er may I look on day, nor sleepion
But she tells to your highness simple truth!
Ang. Operjured woman! They are both for-

sworn.

In this the madman justly chargeth them. A

I am advised what I say ;
Neither disturb'd with the effect wine,
Nor heady rash, provoked with raging ire,
Albeit, my wrongs might make one wiser mad.

That goldsmith there, were he not pack'd with
Could witness it, for he was with me then; [her
Who parted with me to go fetch a chain,
Promising to bring it to the Porcupine,
Where Balthazar and I did dine together.
Our dinner done, and he not
I went to in
I
And in his company, that gentleman,
There did this perimed goldsmith swear m
That I this day of him received the chain,"
Which, God he knows, I saw not: for the which,
He did arrest me with an officer.

seck him: bomer,

I did obey; and sent my peasant home.
For certain ducats: he with none return'd.
Then fairly I bespoke the officer,

Το

go in person with me to my house. By the way we met My wife, her sister, and a rabble more Or vile confederates; along with them tmore They brought one Pinch; a hungry lean-faced A mere anatomy, a mountebank, [villain, A thread-bare juggier, and a fortune-teller; A needy, hollow-eyed, s

A living dead, man: pernicious wretch,

us slave,
Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer;
And gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse,
And with no face, as 'twere, outfacing me,
Cries out, I was possess'd: then altogether
They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence,
And in a dark and dankish vault at home
There left me and my man, both bound together;
Till gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder,
I gain'd my freedom, and immediately
Ran hither to your grace; whom I beseech
To give me ample satisfaction
For these deep shames and great indignities.
Ang. My lord, in truth, thus far I witness

with bim;

That he dined not at home but was lock'd out.
Duke. But had he such a chain of thee, or no?
-Ang. He had, my lord: and when he ran in
here,

These people saw the chain about his neck. Mer. Besides, I will be sworn, these ears of mine

Heard you confess you had the chain of him,
After you first forswore it on the mart,
And, thereupon, I drew my sword on you, A
And then you fled into this abbey here
From whence, I think, you are come by miracle.
Ant. E. I never came within these abbey
walls 5)
putio tu paS UNĨA
Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me:
I never saw the chain, so help me heaven!
And this is false, you burden me withal, [this!
Duke. Why, what an intricate impeach is
I think, you all have
If. here you
housed him, Circe's eur
here he would have
misu been a bus 92NT [coldly:
If he were mad, he would not plead se

• i. e., Successively, one after anotherisal to soften, Cuts his hair close.

Harlot

was a term of reproach applied to cheats among men, as well as to wantons among women.

餅

But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords;
Now am I Dromio, and his man, unbound.
Ege. I am sure, you both of you remember
[by you;
Dro. E. Ourselves we do remember, sir,
For lately we were bound as you are now.
You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir?
Ege. Why look you strange on me? you
know me well.
[now.
Ant. E. I never saw you in my life, till
Æge. Oh! grief hath changed me, since you
saw me last;

And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand
Have written strange defeaturest in my face:
But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?
Ant. E. Neither.

Ege.
Dromio, nor thou?
Dro. E. No, trust me, sir, nor I.
Ege.
I am sure, thou dost.
Dro. E. Ay, sir? but I am sure, I do not;
and whatsoever a man denies, you are now
bound to believe him.

Ege. Not know my voice! O, time's ex-
[tongue,
rack'd and splitted my poor
Hast thou so crack'
In seven short years, that here my only sou
Knows not my feeble key of untuned cares?
Though now this grained 1 face of mine be hid
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,
And all the conduits of my blood froze up;

My wasting lamp some fading glimmer left,
My dull deaf ears a little use to hear:
All these old witnesses (I cannot err.) w
Tell me, thou art my son Antipholus.975 10
Ant. E. I never saw my father in my life.
Ege. But seven years since, in Syracusa,
boy, shout is 1657
[son,
Thou know'st, we parted: but, perhaps, my
Thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery.
Ant. E. The duke, and all that know me in
the city, now she wen
"I⚫ Confounded.

Duke. One of these men is Genius to the
And so of these: Which is the natural man,
And which the spirit? Who deciphers them?
Dro. S. I, sir, am Dromio; command him
[stay.
away, age hose moy
Dro. E. 1, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me
Ant. S. Egeon, art thou not? or else his
ghost?
[him here?
Dro. S. O, my old master! who hath bound
Abb. Whoever bound him, I will loose Lis
995 bonds,

And gain a husband by his liberty:-
Speak, old Egeon, if thou be'st the man
That hadst a wife once call'd Emilia,
That bore thee at a burden two fair sons:
O, if thou be'st the same geon, speak,
And speak unto the same Emilia !

Ege. If I dream not, thou art Æmilia;
If thou art she, tell me, where is that son
That floated with thee on the fatal raft?

Abb. By men of Epidamnum, he, and I,
And the twin Dromio, all were taken up;
But, by and by, rude fishermen of Corinth
By force took Dromio and my son from them,
And me they left with those of Epidamnum:
What then became of them, I cannot tell;
I, to this fortune that you see me in. [rights;

Duke. Why, here begins his morning story
These two Antipholus's, these two so like,
And these two Dromio's, one in semblance,-
Besides her urging of her wreck at sea,-
These are the parents to these children,
Which accidentally are met together.
Antipholus, thou camest from Corinth first.
Ant. S. No, sir, not I; I came from Syra
[is which
cuse.duode
Duke. Stay, stand apart; I know not which
Ant. E. I came from Cerinth, my most
no a gracious lord.

Dro. E. And I with him. [famous warrior,
Ant. E. Brought to this town with that most

Adr. Which of you two did dine with me to
Ant. S. I, gentle mistress.
Adr

And are not you my husband?
Ant. E. No, I say nay to that.

Ant. S. And so do I, yet did she call me so;
And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here,
Did call me brother: What I told you then,
I hope, I shall have leisure to make good;
If this be not a dream, I see, and hear. [me.
Ang. That is the chain, sir, which you had of
Ant. S. I think it be, sir; I deny it not.
Alteration of features.ost Furrowed, lined.
The morning story is what Egeon tells the Duke in the first scene of this play.

Ant. E. And you, sir, for this chain arrested Ang. I think I did, sir; I deny it not. [me. Adr. I sent you money, sir, to be your bail, By Dromio; but I think he brought it not. Dro. E. No, none by me.

Ant. S. This purse of ducats I received from And Dromio my man did bring them me: [you, I see, we still did meet each other's man, And I was ta'en for him, and he for me, And thereupon these errors are arose. Ant. E. These ducats pawn I for my father here.

[life. Duke. It shall not need, thy father hath his Cour. Sir, I must have that diamond from you. [my good cheer. Ant. E. There, take it; and much thanks for Abb. Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the To go with us into the abbey here, [pains And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes :And all that are assembled in this place, That by this sympathized one day's error Have suffer'd wrong, go, keep us company, And we shall make full satisfaction.Twenty-five years have I but gone in travail Of you, my sons; nor, till this present hour, My heavy burdens are delivered:

The duke, my husband, and my children both, And you, the calendars of their nativity, Go to a gossip's feast, and go with me; *After so long grief, such nativity!

Duke. With all my heart, I'll gossip at this

feast.

[Exeunt Duke, Abbess, ÆGEON, Cour tezan, Merchant, ANGELO, and Attendants. [shipboard? Dro. S. Master, shall I fetch your stuff from Ant. E. Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd? [the Centaur. Dro. S. Your goods, that lay at host, sir, in Ant. S. He speaks to me; I am your master, Dromio:

Come, go with us; we'll look to that anon:
Embrace thy brother, there, rejoice with him.
[Exeunt ANTIPHOLUS S. and E.
ADR. and Luc. [house,
Dro. S. There is a fat friend at your master's
That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner;
She now shall be my sister, not my wife.
Dro. E. Methinks, you are my glass, and not
my brother:

I see by you, I am a sweet-faced youth.
Will you walk in to see their gossiping?

Dro. S. Not I, sir; you are my elder. [it? Dro. E. That's a question: how shall we try Dro. S. We will draw cuts for the senior : till then, lead thou first.

[brother:

Dro. E. Nay, then thus: We came into the world, like brother and And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. [Exeunt.

On a careful revision of the foregoing scenes, I do not hesitate to pronounce them the composition of two very unequal writers. Shakspeare had undoubtedly a share in them; but that the entire play was no work of his, is an opinion which (as Benedick says) "fire cannot melt out of me; I will die in it at the stake." Thus, as we are informed by Aulus Gellius, Lib. III. Cap. 3., some plays were absolutely ascribed to Plautus, which in truth had only been (retrac tatæ et expolita) retouched and polished by him.

In this comedy we find more intricacy of plot than distinction of character; and our atten tion is less forcibly engaged, because we can guess in great measure how the denouement will be brought about. Yet the subject appears to have been reluctantly dismissed, even in this last and unnecessary scene, where the same mistakes are continued, till the power of affording entertainment is entirely lost.-STEEVENS.

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DONALBAIN,

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his

sons.

SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, Gene ral of the English forces.

Young SIWARD, his son mos

MACBETH, Generals of the King's SEYTON, an officer attending on Macbeth.

BANQUO,

army.

Son to Macduff...

An English Doctor. A Scotch Doctor. A Soldier. A Porter. An old Man.

Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers, Attendants, and Messengers; the Ghost of Banquo, and several other Apparitions.

Scene, in the end of the fourth act, lies in England; through the rest of the play, in Scotland; and, chiefly, ut Macbeth's castle.

ACT I.

SCENE 1. An open Place. Thunder and Do swarm upon him,) from the western isles

Lightning.

Enter three Witches.

1 Witch. When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

2 Witch. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won:

3 Witch. That will be ere set of sun. 1 Witch. Where the place?

2 Witch.

Upon the heath: 3 Witch. There to meet with Macbeth. 1 Witch. I come, Gray malkin! All. Paddock calls:-Anon.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air. [Witches vanish.

SCENE II. A Camp near Fores. Alarum within. Enter King DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Soldier.

Dun. What bloody man is that? He can As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt [report, The newest state.

Mal. This is the serjeant, Who, like a good and hardy soldier, fought 'Gainst my captivity-Hail, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil, As thou didst leave it.

Sold. Doubtfully it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together, And choke their art. The merciless Macdon(Worthy to be a rebel; for, to that, [wald The multiplying villanies of nature

Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion,

Carved out his passage, tili he faced the slave; And ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,

[chaps, Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the And fix'd his head upon our battlements. Dun. O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! Sold. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break; [to come,

Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd

mark:

• Tumult. ti. e., Supplied with light and heavy armed troops.

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