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low'd by order of law, a furr'd gown to keep him warm, and furr'd with fox and lamb-skins too, to fignifie, that craft, being richer than innocency, ftands for the facing,

Elb. Cone your way, Sir.-Blefs you, good father

Friar.

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Duke. And you, good brother father; what offence hath this man made you, Sir?

Elb. Marry, Sir, he hath offended the law; and, Sir, we take him to be a Thief too, Sir; for we have found upon him, Sir, a ftrange pick-lock, which we have fent to the Deputy.

Duke. Fie, Sirrah, a bawd, a wicked bawd!
The evil that thou caufeft to be done,

That is thy means to live. Doft thou but think,
What 'tis to cram a maw, or cloath a back,
From fuch a filthy vice? fay to thyself,
From their abominable and beaftly touches.
I drink, I eat, array myself, and live. (3)
Canft thou believe thy living is a life,

So ftinkingly depending! go mend, mend.

Clown. Indeed, it doth ftink in fome fort, Sir; but yet, Sir, I would prove

Duke. Nay, if the devil hath giv'n thee proofs for fin.

Thou wilt prove his. Take him to prison, officer;
Correction and inftruction muft both work,
Ere this rude beat will profit.

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Elb. He muft before the Deputy, Sir; he has given him warning; the Deputy cannot abide a whore-miafter; if he be a whore-monger, and comes before him,, he were as good go a mile on his errand.

-father ;] This word fhould be expunged.

(3) The old editions have,

F'drink, Leat away myself, and live.] This is one very excellent Inftance of the Sagacity of our Editors, and it were to be wifhed heartily, they would have obliged us with their phy ical Solution, how a Man can eat away himself and live. 'Mr. Bishop gave me that molt certain Emendation, which I have substituted in the Room of the former foolish Reading; by the Help whereof, we have this eafy Senfe; that the Clown fed himself, and put cloaths on his Back, by exercising the vile Trade of a Bawd. THEOBALD. Duke.

Duke. That we were all, as fome would feem to be, Free from all faults, as faults from feeming free! (4)

SCENE V.

Enter Lucio.

Elb. His neck will come to your waift, (5) a cord, Sir.

Clown. I fpy comfort: I cry, bail: here's a gentleman, and a friend of mine.

Lucio. How now, noble Pompey? what, at the wheels of Cafar? art thou led in triumph? what, is

(4) That we were all, as fome would feem to be,

Free from all faults, as faults from feeming free !] . e. as faults are deftitute of all comeliness or feeming. The first of thefe lines refers to the Deputy's fanctified hypocrify; the fecond, to the Clown's beatly occupation. But the latter part is thus ill expreffed for the fake of the rhime. WARBURTON,

Sir T. Hanmer reads,

Free from all faults, as from faults feeming free.

The interpretation of Dr. Warburton is deftitute of authority; though feemly is decent or comely, I know not that feeming is ever used for comelinefs. The fenfe is likewife trifling, and the expreflion harsh. To with that men were as free from faults, as faults are free from comeliness [inftead of void of comelinefs] is a very poor conceit. I once thought it should be read,

O that all were, as all would feem to be,

Free from all faults, or from false feeming free.

So in this play,

O place, O power

-bow doft thou

Wrench awe from fools and tie the wiser fouls

To thy falfe feeming.

But I now believe that a lefs alteration will ferve the turn,

Free from all faults, or faults from feeming free ;

So Ijabella calls

that men were really good, or that their faults were known, that men were free from faults, or faults from bypocrify. Angelo's hypocrify, feeming, feeming.

(5) His neck will come to your waift, a cord, Sir.] That is, his neck will be tied like your waift with a rope. The Friers of the Francifcan order, perhaps of others, wear a hempen cord for a girdle. Thus Buchanan,

-Fac gemant fuis
Variata terga funibus.

there

there none of Pigmalion's images, newly made woman, (6) to be had now, for putting the hand in the pocket, and extracting it clutch'd? what reply? ha? what fay'st thou to this tune, matter and method? is't not drown'd i'th' laft rain? (7) ha? what fay'ft thou, trot? is the world as it was, man? which is the way? * is it fad and few words? or how? the trick of it?

Duke. Still thus and thus ; ftill worfe!

Lucio. How doth my dear morfel, thy miftrefs ? procures the ftill ? ha ?

Clown. Troth, Sir, fhe hath eaten up all her beef, and she is herself in the tub (8).

Lucio. Why, 'tis good; it is the right of it; it must be fo. Ever your fresh whore, and your powder'd bawd; an unfhunn'd confequence, it must be fo. Art: going to prifon, Pompey 2

Clown. Yes, faith, Sir.

Luci. Why, 'tis not amifs, Pompey, farewell: go,

(6) Pigmalion's images, newly made woman,] i. e- come out cured from a falivation.

WAREURTON.

(7)what fay' thou to this tune, matter and method? 15'7 not dresun'd in the laft rain? ba? what fay't thou, trot ?] This trange nonfenfe fhould be thus corrected, It's not DOWN i'th' laft. REIGN, . e. these are severities unknown to the old Duke's time, And this is to the purpose. WARBURTON.

Dr. Warburton's emendation is ingenious, but I know not whe-. ther the fenfe may not be restored with lefs change. Let us confider it. Lucio, a prating fup, meets his old friend going to prifon, and pours out upon him his impertinent interrogatories, to which, when; the poor fellow makes no answer, he adds, W'but reply ? ba ? what fay'st thou to this? tune, matter, and method,- -is't not ?, drown'd i'th' laft rain & ba? what fay'ft thou, trot? &c] It is a common phrafe ufed in low raillery of a man creft-fallen and dejected, that, be looks like a drown'd puppy. Lucio, therefore, aiks hirm whether he was drown'd in the laft rain, and therefore cannot speak.

It should be read, I think, what fay'f thou to't ? the word tree being feldom (if ever) used to a man.

Old tror or trat, fignifies a decrepit old woman, or an old drab In which sense it is used by Gawin Douglas, Virgil's Ænead, book iv.

"Out on the old trat, agit suyffe, or dame."

Dr. GRAY,

Trot, or as it is now often pronounced boneft trout, is a familiar addrefs to a man among the provincial vulgar.

which is the way ?] What is the mode now ?.

(8) in the tub.] The method of cure for venereal complaint"> is grofly called the powdering-tub..

fay,

fay, I fent thee thither. For debt, Pompey? or how? (9)

Elb. For being a bawd, for being a bawd.

Lucie. Well, then imprison him; if imprisonment be the due of a bawd, why, 'tis his Right. Bawd is he, doubtless, and of antiquity too; bawd born. Farewell, good Pompey, commend me to the prison, Pompey; you will turn good husband now, Pompey; you will keep the house.

Clown. I hope, Sir, your good worship will be my bail.

Lucio. No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it is not the wear. I will pray, Pompey, to encrease your bondage : if you take it not patiently, why, your mettle is the more. Adieu, trufty Pompey. Blefs you, Friar. Duke. And you.

Lucio Does Bridget paint ftill, Pompey? ha?
Elb. Come your ways, Sir, come.

Clown. You will not bail me then, Sir?

Lucio. Then, Pompey, nor now.

Friar? what news?

Elb. Come your ways, Sir, come.

What news abroad,

Lucio. Go-to kennel, Pompey-go :

[Exeunt Elbow, Clown and Officers.

SCENE

What news, Friar, of the Duke ?

VI.

Duke. I know none: can you tell me of any?

Lucio. Some fay, he is with the Emperor of Ruffia; other Some, he is in Rome: but where is he, think you?

Duke. I know not where; but wherefoever, I wish him well.

(9) go, fay, I fent thee thither. For debt, Pompey? or boro?] It should be pointed thus, Go, fay, I fent thee thither for debt. Pompey; or bow- i. e. to hide the ignominy of thy cafe, fay, I fent thee to prifon for debt, or whatever other pretence thou fancielt better. The other humourously replies, For being a bawd, for being a bard, i. e. the true caufe is the most honourable. This is in chara&er. WARBURTON.

Lucio.

Lucio. It was a mad fantastical trick of him to fteal from the ftate, and ufurp the beggary he was never Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence he

born to.

puts Tranfgeflion to't. Duke. He does well in't.

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Lucio. A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him; fomething too crabbed that way, Friar. Duke. It is too general a vice, (1) and severity muft

cure it.

Lucio. Yes, in good footh, the vice is of a great kindred; it is well ally'd; but it is impoffible to extirp it quite, Friar, till eating and drinking be put down. They fay, this Angelo was not made by man and woman after the downright way of creation. Is it true, think you ?

Duke. How fhould he be made then?

Lucio. Some report a fea-maid spawn'd him. Some, that he was got between two ftock-fifhes. But it is certain, that when he makes water, his urine is congeal'd ice; that I know to be true: and he is a motion ungenerative, that's infallible. (2)

Duke. You are pleasant, Sir, and fpeak apace.

Lucio. Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the rebellion of a cod-piece to take away the life of a man? would the Duke, that is abfent, have done this? ere he would have hang'd a man for the getting a hun

(1) It is too general a vice,] The occafion of the observation was Lucio's faying, that it ought to be treated with a little more lerity; and his anfwer to it is,-The vice is of great kindred. Nothing can be more abfurd than all this. From the occafion, and the answer, therefore, it appears, that Shakespeare wrote,

It is too GENTLE a vice,

which fignifying both indulgent and well bred, takes it in the latter fenfe.

Lucio humouroufly

WARBURTON. (2) In the former editions. and he is a Motion generative; that's infallible.] This may be Sense; and Lucio, perhaps, may mean, that tho' Angelo have the Organs of Generation, yet that he makes no more Ufe of them than if he were an inanimate Puppet. But I rather think, our Author wrote; and he is a Motion ungene rative, becaufe Lucio again in this very Scene fays; —this ungenitured Agent will unpeople the Province with Continency.

THEOBALD.

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