COUNT. Porter, remember what I gave in charge; And, when you have done so, bring the keys to me. PORT. Madam, I will. [Exit. COUNT. The plot is laid: if all things fall out right, I shall as famous be by this exploit, Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears, Enter Messenger and TALBOT. MESS. Madam, According as your ladyship defir'd, By message crav'd, so is lord Talbot come. COUNT. And he is welcome. man? What! is this the Is this the scourge of France? MESS. Madam, it is. COUNT. Is this the Talbot, so much fear'd abroad, is their cenfure-] i. e. their opinion. So, in King Richard III : " And give your cenfures in this weighty business.". STEEVENS. That with his name the mothers still their babes? I thought, I should have seen some Hercules, A TAL. Madam, I have been bold to trouble you: But, fince your ladyship is not at leisure, I'll fort fome other time to visit you, COUNT. What means he now ?-Go afk him, whither he goes. MESS. Stay, my lord Talbot; for my lady craves To know the cause of your abrupt departure. TAL. Marry, for that she's in a wrong belief, I go to certify her, Talbot's here. Re-enter Porter, with keys. COUNT. If thou be he, then art thou prifoner. TAL. Prifoner! to whom? COUNT. To me, blood-thirsty lord; And for that cause I train'd thee to my house. Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me, 5 That with his name the mothers still their babes?] Dryden has transplanted this idea into his Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: "Nor (hall Sebastian's formidable name " Be longer us'd, to lull the crying babe." STEEVENS. 6 writhled] i. e. wrinkled. The word is used by Spenser. Sir Thomas Hanmer reads - wrizled, which has been followed in fubfequent editions. MALONE. The instance from Spenser, is the following: " Her writhled skin, as rough as maple rind." STEEVENS. For in my gallery thy picture hangs: TAL. Ha, ha, ha! COUNT. Laughest thou, wretch? thy mirth shall turn to moan. 8 TAL. I laugh to fee your ladyship so fond, COUNT. Why, art not thou the man? I am indeed. COUNT. Then have I substance too. You are deceiv'd, my substance is not here, COUNT. This is a riddling merchant for the 8 9 2 captivate. So, in Soliman and Perfeda: STEEVENS. • so fond, ] i. e so foolish. So, in King Henry IV. Part II. "Fondly brought here, and foolishly sent hence." STEEVENS. I am but shadow of myself: ) So, in King Henry VIII: "I am the shadow of poor Buckingham." STEEVENS. This is a riddling merchant &c.] So, in Romeo and Juliet : What faucy merchant was this?" See a note on this passage, A& II. fc. iv. STEEVENS. He will be here, and yet he is not here: TAL. That will I show you presently, COUNT. Victorious Talbot! pardon my abuse: I find, thou art no less than fame hath bruited,4 And more than may be gather'd by thy shape. Let my prefumption not provoke thy wrath; For I am forry, that with reverence I did not entertain thee as thou art. TAL. Be not dismay'd, fair lady; nor misconstrue The mind of Talbot, as you did mistake The outward composition of his body. What you have done, hath not offended me: No other fatisfaction do I crave, But only (with your patience,) that we may Taste of your wine, and fee what cates you have; For foldiers' stomachs always serve them well. COUNT. With all my heart; and think me honoured To feast so great a warrior in my house. [Exeunt. 3 That will I show you presently.] The deficient foot in this line may properly be supplied, by reading 4 That, madam, will I show you presently. STEEVENS. --bruited,] To bruit is to proclaim with noise, to announce loudly. So, in Macbeth: one of greatest note SCENE IV. London. The Temple Garden. Enter the Earls of SOMERSET, SUFFOLK, and WARWICK; RICHARD PLANTAGENET, VERNON, and another Lawyer. 2 PLAN. Great lords, and gentlemen what means this filence? Dare no man answer in a cafe of truth? SUF. Within the Temple hall we were too loud; The garden here is more convenient. PLAN. Then say at once, If I maintain'd the Or, elfe, was wrangling Somerset in the error?3 And never yet could frame my will to it; SOM. Judge you, my lord of Warwick, then be tween us. WAR. Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch. Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth, * and another Lawyer.) Read - a lawyer. This lawyer was probably Roger Nevyle, who was afterward hanged. See W. Wyrcester, p. 478. RITSON. 3 Or, elfe, wus wrangling Somerset in the error?] So all the editions. There is apparently a want of oppofition between the two questions. I once read, Or else was wrangling Somerfet i'th' right? JOHNSON. Sir T. Hanmer would read: And was not -. STEEVENS. 1 |