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SCENE changes to Julia's Houfe at Verona. Enter Protheus and Julia.

Pro. Hul. I muft, where is no remedy.

AVE patience, gentle Julia.

Pro. When poffibly I can, I will return.

Jul. If you turn not, you will return the fooner: Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's fake.

[Giving a ring. Pro. Why then we'll make exchange; here, take you this..

Jul. And feal the bargain with a holy kiss. Pro. Here is my hand for my true conftancy; And when that hour o'erflips me in the day, Wherein I figh not, Julia, for thy fake: The next enfuing hour fome foul mifchance Torment me, for my love's forgetfulness! My father stays my coming; answer not: The tide is now; nay, not thy tide of tears ; That tide will ftay me longer,than I should: [Exit Julia. Julia, farewel.-What! gone without a word ? Ay, fo true love fhould do; it cannot speak; For truth hath better deeds, than words, to grace it. Enter Panthion.

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Pan. Sir Pretheus, you are ftay'd for.

Pro. Go; I come.

Alas! this parting ftrikes poor lovers dumb. [Exeunt.

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AY, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping; all the kind of the Launces have this very fault: I have receiv'd my proportion, like the prodigious fon, and am going with Sir Protheus to the Imperial's court. I think, Crab my dog be the fowreft-natur'd dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father wailing, my fifter crying, our maid howl

ling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity; yet did not this cruel-hearted cur fhed one tear! he is a ftone, a very pebble-stone, and has no more pity in him than a dog: a. Jew would have wept, to have feen our parting; why, my gran dam having no eyes, look you, wept herfelf blind at my parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it: this fhoe is my father; no, this left fhoe is my father; no, no, this left fhoe is my mother; nay, that cannot be so neither; yes, it is fo, it is fog it hath the worfer fole; this fhoe, with the hole in it, is "my mother, and this my father; a vengeance on't, there 'tis : now, Sir, this staff is my fifter; for, look you, the is as white as a lilly, and as fmall as a wand; this hat is Nan, our maid I am the dog; no, the dog is himfelf, and I am the dog : oh, the dog is me, and I am myself; ay, fo, fo; now come I to my father; father, your bleffing; now fhould not the fhoe fpeak a word for weeping; now should I kifs my father; well, he weeps on; now come I to my mother; oh that fhe could speak now (9) like a wood woman! well, I kiss

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(9) Like an ould woman!] These mere poetical Editors can do nothing towards an emendation, even when 'tis chalk'd out to their hands. The first folia's agree in would-woman; for which, because it was a mystery to Mr. Pofe, he has unmeaningly fubftituted ould rutman. But it must be writ, or at leaft understood, wood woman, i. e. crazy, frantick with grief; or, distracted, from any other cause. The word is very frequently used in Chaucer; and fometimes writ, rwood; fometimes, vode.

What should he study, or make himself wood?

In his character of the Monk,

They told ev'ry man that he was code,

He was aghafte fo of Noe's flede.

In his Miller's Tale. And he likewife ufes wodeness, for madness. Vide Spelman's Saxon Glossary in the word wod. As to the reading in the old editions, would-acman, perhaps, this may be a defign'd corruption, to make Launce purpofely blunder in the word, as he a little before very humorously calls the prodigal fon, the prodigious fohought to take notice, that my ingenious friend Mr. Korburton fent me up this fame emendation, unknowing that I had already corrected the place. VOL. I.

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her; why, there 'tis? here's my mother's breath up and down: now come I to my fifter; mark the moan The makes now the dog all this while fheds not a tear, nor fpeaks a word; but fee, how I lay the duft with my tears.

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Enter Panthion.

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Pant. Launce, away, away, aboard; thy mafter is fhipp'd, and thou art to poft after with oars what's the matter? why weep'ft thou, man? away, afs, you will lofe the tide if you tarry any longer.

Laun. It is no matter if the ty'd were loft, for it is the unkindest ty'd that ever any man tyd. Pant. What's the unkindeft tide?

Jav192 AP Laun. Why, he that's tyd here; Crab, my dog.

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Pant. Tut, man, I mean thou'c lofe the flood; and in lofing the flood, lofe thy voyage; and in lofing thy voyage, lofe thy mafter; and in lofing thy mafter, lofe thy fervice; and in lofing thy fervice, thou ftop my mouth na fides i mest fed Laun. For fear thou should'st lofe thy tongue. Pant. Where should I lose my tongue? Laun. In thy tale.

Pant. In thy tail?

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Boy Stoup wod baA Laun. Lofe the flood, and the voyage, and the mafter, and the fervice, and the tide why, man, if the river were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears; if the wind were down, I could drive the boat with my highsinado woy ob. Sorud Pri? quons 1sdW 32 Pant. Come, come away, man; I was fent to callthee. Loddunu Sir, call me what thou dar ft. 201T

Pant. Wilt thou go?

Laun. Well, I will go.

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And here am I, and wood within this wood. To to Which Mr. Fope has there rightly expounded, by mad, suild, raping. And again, Shakespeare, in one of his poems, has this line

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