In piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool, Duke S. But what said Jaques? Did he not moralize this spectacle? 1 Lord. O, yes, into a thousand similes. Yea, and of this our life; swearing, that we Duke S. And did you leave him in this contem- 7 i. e. the stream that needed not such a supply of moisture. 8 So in Shakspeare's Lover's Complaint : Upon whose weeping margin she was set Again in King Henry VI. Part III. Act v. Sc. 4: With tearful eyes add water to the sea, And give more strength to that which hath too much.' 2 Lord. We did, my lord, weeping and commenting Upon the sobbing deer. Duke S. Show me the place; I love to cope9 him in these sullen fits, For then he's full of matter. 2 Lord. I'll bring you to him straight. [Exeunt. SCENE II. A Room in the Palace. Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, and Attendants. Duke F. Can it be possible that no man saw them? It cannot be some villains of my court Are of consent and sufferance in this. 1 Lord. I cannot hear of any that did see her. The ladies, her attendants of her chamber, Saw her a-bed; and, in the morning early, They found the bed untreasur'd of their mistress. 2 Lord. My lord, the roynish1 clown, at whom so oft Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing. That youth is surely in their company. Duke F. Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither; If he be absent, bring his brother to me, 9 i. e. to encounter him. Thus in K. Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2: -cope malicious censurers.' 1 The roynish clown,' mangy or scurvy, from roigneux, French. The word is used by Chaucer. 2 Wrestler is here to be sounded as a trisyllable. I'll make him find him: do this suddenly; [Exeunt. SCENE III. Before Oliver's House. Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting. Orl. Who's there? Adam. What! my young master?-O, my gentle master, O, my sweet master, O you memory1 1 Of old Sir Rowland! why, what make you here? The bony priser 3 of the humorous duke? you. yours; your virtues, gentle master, Are sanctified and holy traitors to you. ་ 3To quail,' says Steevens, 'is to faint, to sink into dejection.' It may be so, but in neither of these senses is the word here used by Shakspeare. Cotgrave will lead us to the meaning of it in this place, to quaile, fade, faile,' are among the interpretations he gives of the word Alachir, and fail is the sense required by the context of the above passage. So in Tancred and Gismunda : For as the world wore on and waxed old, 1 Shakspeare uses memory for memorial. So in Lear, Act iv. Sc. 7: Those weeds are memories of those worser hours.' And in The Atheist's Tragedy, by C. Turner, 1611:— ' And with his body place that memory Of noble Charlemont.' 2 i. e. rash, foolish. 3 I suspect that a priser was the term for a wrestler, a prise was a term in that sport for a grappling or hold taken. O, what a world is this, when what is comely Orl. Why, what's the matter? Adam. O unhappy youth, Your brother-(no, no brother: yet the son- Hath heard your praises; and this night he means This is no place 5, this house is but a butchery; Orl. Why,whither, Adam,wouldst thou have me go? Or, with a base and boisterous sword, enforce A thievish living on the common road? This I must do, or know not what to do: I rather will subject me to the malice Adam. But do not so: I have five hundred crowns, The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father, Which I did store, to be my foster-nurse, When service should in my old limbs lie lame, 4 i. e. treacherous devices. 5 Place here signifies a seat, a mansion, a residence: it is not yet obsolete in this sense. 6 i. e. blood turned out of a course of nature. Affections alienated. Yea, providently caters for the sparrow7, Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; : Orl. O good old man; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee. But, poor old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree, That cannot so much as a blossom yield, Adam. Master, go on, and I will follow thee, 7 See St. Luke, xii. 6 and 24. [Exeunt. 8 Even with the promotion gained by service is service extinguished. |