Hath broke their hearts. March, noble lord, Into our city with thy banners spread: By decimation and a tithed death— 30 Which nature loathes-take thou the destined tenth, And by the hazard of the spotted die Let die the spotted. First Sen. All have not offended; Sec. Sen. What thou wilt, Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile Than hew to 't with thy sword. First Sen. 40 Set but thy foot Sec. Sen. Throw thy glove, Or any token of thine honor else, That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress 50 hath broke their hearts"); F. 1 reads "(Shame that they wanted, cunning in excesse)"; Ff. 2, 3, 4, "Shame (that they wanted cunning in excesse)"; Johnson conj. "Shame that they wanted, coming in excess."-I. G. "cunning" is used in its old sense of skill or wisdom.-H. N. H. And not as our confusion, all thy powers Alcib. Then there's my glove; Both. "Tis most nobly spoken. Alcib. Descend, and keep your words. [The Senators descend, and open the gates. Sold. My noble general, Timon is dead; And on his grave-stone this insculpture, which Interprets for my poor ignorance. Alcib. [Reads] 'Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft: 70 62. "render'd to your"; the conj. of Chedworth, adopted by Dyce; F. 1 reads "remedied to your"; Ff. 2, 3, 4, "remedied by your"; Pope, "remedied by"; Johnson, "remedied to"; Malone, "remedy'd, to your"; Singer (ed. 2), "remitted to your."-I. G. 70-73. What is here given as one epitaph is really a combination of two, as may be seen by the passage from North's Plutarch quoted in our Introduction. The reader will of course observe the Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked caitiff's left! Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate: Pass by and curse thy fill; but pass and stay not here thy gait.' These well express in thee thy latter spirits< Though thou abhorr❜dst in us our human griefs, From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit aye On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead Hereafter more. Bring me into your city, 80 inconsistency between the two couplets, the first saying,-"Seek not my name"; the second,-"Here lie I, Timon." How the two got thus thrown together, it were vain to speculate: possibly the Poet was in doubt which to choose, and so copied them both, and then neglected to erase the one which he meant to reject. See, however, the Introduction. In the Palace of Pleasure the epitaph is given thus: "My wretched catife dayes expired now and past, My carren corps intered here is fast in grounde, In waltering waves of swelling sea by surges cast: My name if thou desire, the gods thee doe confounde." -H. N. H. The first two lines are a rendering of Timon's own epitaph; the last two were ascribed generally to the poet Callimachus. Lines 71-72 are contradictions. Both epitaphs, however, occur in close succession in the Plutarchian narrative, whence they were doubtless copied by the author without reflection.-C. H. H. 79. "On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead"; the reading of Ff.; Theobald reads "On thy low grave.-On: faults forgiven.— Dead"; Hanmer, "On thy low grave our faults—forgiv'n, since dead.” -I. G. Make war breed peace, make peace stint war, make each Prescribe to other as each other's leech. Let our drums strike. [Exeunt. GLOSSARY By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A. ABHOR HIMSELF, make himself abhorred; (Hanmer, "make himself abhorr'd"); I. i. 60. ACHES (dissyllabic); I. i. 257. ADVANCE, promote, raise to honor; I. ii. 181. AFFECT, like, desire; I. ii. 231. ALLOW'D, trusted, invested by public authority; (Warburton, "Hallow'd"); V. i. 169. ALL TO YOU, "all good wishes to you"; I. ii. 247. ALTERATION; "a. of honor," i. e. change to dishonor; IV. iii. 478. AMPLE, amply; I. ii. 140. ATTEND, await; III. v. 102. BANQUET, dessert; I. ii. 164. used of servile followers; IV. iii. 175. BEAR, bear off; I. i. 131. BECKS, nods; I. ii. 251. BEHAVE, govern; III. v. 22. BENEATH, lower, below; I. i. 44. BEST, that which can be most depended upon; (S. Walker conj. "last"); III. iii. 37. BLAINS, botches; IV. i. 28. BLOOD, temper; (Johnson conj. "mood"); IV. ii. 38. BOUND, bank, boundary; I. i. 25. BRAIN'S FLOW, tears; (Hanmer, "brine's flow"); V. iv. 76. BREATH, Voice; IV. iii. 249. BREATHE, utter; III. v. 32. BREATHED, trained; ("inured to constant practice; so trained as not to be wearied; To breathe a horse is to exercise him for the course"); I. i. 10. BRING, conduct; V. i. 126. BRUISE, crush, destroy; III. v. 4. BRUIT, rumor; V. i. 200. BY, according to; I. i. 171. BY MERCY, (?) by your leave; III. v. 55. CANDIED, congealed; IV. iii. 226. CAP, top, principal; IV. iii. 367. CARPER, censurer; IV. iii. 209. CAUDLE, serve as a caudle, refresh; IV. iii. 226. CEASED, Stopped, silenced; II. i. 16. |