SCENE I. Tharsus. An open Place near the Sea-shore. Enter DIONYZA and LEONINE. Dion. Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't: 'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known. Thou canst not do a thing i' the world so soon, To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience, Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be A soldier to thy purpose. Leon. I'll do't; but yet she is a goodly creature. Dion. The fitter then the gods should have her. Here She comes weeping for her old nurse's death". Enter MARINA, with a Basket of Flowers. Mar. No, I will rob Tellus of her weed, To strew thy grave with flowers': the yellows, blues, Inflame too nicely ;] The old copies all read, "in flaming love in thy bosom ;" and we may conjecture that the second “inflame” ought to be inform. 6 for her OLD NURSE's death.] Old copy, "She comes weeping her onely mistresse death. As Marina (says Percy) had been trained in music, letters, &c., and had gained all the graces of education, Lychorida could not have been her only mistress. I would therefore read, "Here comes she weeping her old nurse's death." We adopt the emendation, but not the improvement of the metre. 7 To strew thy GRAVE with flowers :] So the folio, 1664, and no doubt rightly, correcting an error of the quartos, which have green for "grave." In the last line of the speech, the folio needlessly substitutes hurrying for “whirring," but in this change it was preceded by four of the quartos. The purple violets, and marigolds, maid! Dion. How now, Marina! why do you weep alone? How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not Consume your blood with sorrowing: you have A nurse of me'. Lord! how Lord! how your favour's chang'd With this unprofitable woe! Come, come; Mar. No, I pray you; I'll not bereave you of your servant. Dion. Come, come; He will repent the breadth of his great voyage; 8 eyes of young and old. Care not for me; why do you WEEP alone?] Malone tells us that the earliest copies read keep for "weep." Such is not the case with the quarto, 1609, the property of the Duke of Devonshire, which, like all the subsequent impressions, has ". alone." Either word may be right, but, from what follows, "weep ferable, and probably was substituted for keep. weep seems pre 66 9 A nurse of me.] The quarto, 1609, alone puts this interrogatively, “ Have you a nurse of me?" 1 Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her.] The metre of this speech, as well as of many others in this play, is very irregular, but we, of course, prefer giving it as in the old editions, to any modern attempts to amend the lines. Steevens and others thrust in various words under this pretext, which we have discarded. I can go home alone. Mar. Well, I will go; But yet I have no desire to it. Dion. Come, come, I know 'tis good for you.Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least. Remember what I have said. Leon. I warrant you, madam. Dion. I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while. Pray you walk softly, do not heat your blood: What! I must have care of you. Mar. When I was born, the wind was north. Was't so? Mar. My father, as nurse said, did never fear, And, clasping to the mast, endur'd a sea Leon. When was this? Mar. When I was born: Never were waves nor wind more violent; And from the ladder-tackle washes off A canvass-climber. "Ha!" says one, "wilt out?" From stem to stern2: the boatswain whistles, and Leon. Come; say your prayers. Mar. What mean you? Leon. If you require a little space for prayer, I grant it. Pray; but be not tedious, For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn 2 From STEM to stern:] In all the old editions it is misprinted, “ From stern to stern." Corrected by Malone. Mar. Leon. To satisfy my lady. Why will you kill me? Mar. Why would she have me kill'd? Leon. My commission Is not to reason of the deed, but do it. Mar. You will not do't for all the world, I hope. When you caught hurt in parting two that fought : have her aboard suddenly. [LEONINE runs away. Come, let's 3 Pirate. Half-part, mates, half-part. [Exeunt Pirates with MARINA. SCENE II. Near the Same. Enter LEONINE. Leon. These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes; And they have seiz'd Marina. Let her go: There's no hope she'll return. I'll swear she's dead, Whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain. [Exit. SCENE III. Mitylene. A Room in a Brothel. Enter PANDER, Bawd, and BOULT. Pand. Boult. Boult. Sir. Pand. Search the market narrowly; Mitylene is full of gallants: we lost too much money this mart, by being too wenchless. Bawd. We were never so much out of creatures. We have but poor three, and they can do no more than they can do; and they with continual action are even as good as rotten. Pand. Therefore, let's have fresh ones, whate'er we pay for them. If there be not a conscience to be used in every trade we shall never prosper. Bawd. Thou say'st true: 'tis not the bringing up of poor bastards, as I think, I have brought up some eleven |