And to that youth, he calls his Rofalind,
He fends this bloody napkin; Are you he?
Ros. I am: What must we understand by this?
OLI. Some of my fhame; if you will know of me
What man I am, and how, and why, and where
This handkerchief was ftain'd.

CEL.

I pray you, tell it.

OLI.When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again

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Within an hour; and, pacing through the forest,
Chewing the food of fweet and bitter fancy,'
Lo, what befel! he threw his eye afide,
And, mark, what object did present itself!
Under an oak, whofe boughs were mofs'd with age,
And high top bald with dry antiquity,

9 napkin;] i. e. handkerchief. Ray fays, that a pocket handkerchief is fo called about Sheffield in Yorkshire. So, in Greene's Never too Late, 1616: "I can wet one of my new lockram napkins with weeping."

Napery, indeed, fignifies linen in general. So, in Decker's Honeft Whore, 1635:

- pr'ythee put me into wholesome napery." Again, in Chapman's May-Day, 1611: " Befides your munition of manchet napery plates." Naperia, Ital. STEEVENS.

2 Within an hour;] We must read-within two hours. JOHNSON. May not within an hour fignify within a certain time?

TYRWHITT.

3 - of fweet and bitter fancy,] i. e. love, which is always thus defcribed by our old poets, as compofed of contraries. See a note on Romeo and Juliet, A&t I. fc. ii.

So, in Lodge's Rofalynde, 1590: "I have noted the variable. difpofition of fancy,a bitter pleafure wrapt in fweet prejudice." MALONE.

4 Under an oak,] The ancient copy reads-Under an old oak; but as this epithet hurts the meafure, without improvement of the fenfe, (for we are told in the fame line that its "boughs were mofs'd with age," and afterwards, that its top was "bald with dry antiquity,") I have omitted old, as an unquestionable interpolation. STEEVENS.

5 Under an oak, &c.] The paffage stands thus in Lodge's no

A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,
Lay fleeping on his back: about his neck
A green and gilded fnake had wreath'd itself,
Who with her head, nimble in threats, approach'd
The opening of his mouth; but fuddenly
Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,
And with indented glides did flip away
Into a bush: under which bufh's fhade
A lionefs, with udders all drawn dry,'

Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch,
When that the fleeping man fhould ftir; for 'tis
The royal difpofition of that beast,

To prey on nothing that doth feem as dead:

vel: "Saladyne, wearie with wandring up and downe, and hungry with long fafting, finding a little cave by the fide of a thicket, eating fuch fruite as the forreft did affoord, and contenting himfelf with fuch drinke as nature had provided, and thirft made delicate, after his repaft he fell into a dead fleepe. As thus he lay, a hungry lyon came hunting downe the edge of the grove for pray, and efpying Saladyne, began to ceaze upon him: but feeing he lay ftill without any motion, he left to touch him, for that lyons hate to pray on dead carkaffes: and yet defirous to have fome foode, the lyon lay downe and watcht to fee if he would ftirre. While thus Saladyne flept fecure, fortune that was careful of her champion, began to fmile, and brought it fo to paffe, that Rofader (having ftricken a deere that but lightly hurt fled through the thicket) came pacing downe by the grove with a boare-fpeare in his hande in great hafte, he fpyed where a man lay afleepe, and a lyon faft by him: amazed at this fight, as he ftood gazing, his nofe on the fodaine bledde, which made him conjecture it was fome friend of his. Whereupon drawing more nigh, he might eafily difcerne his vifage, and perceived by his phifnomie that it was his brother Saladyne, which drave Rofader into a deepe paffion, as a man perplexed, &c.But the prefent time craved no fuch doubting ambages: for he muft eyther refolve to hazard his life for his reliefe, or elfe fteale away and leave him to the crueltie of the lyon. In which doubt hee thus briefly debated," &c. STEEVENS.

5 A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,] So, in Arden of FeverВат, 1592:

the ftarven lioness

"When she is dry-fuckt of her eager young." STEEVENS.

Engraved by Charles Taylor, from a Drawing by Robert Smirke.

ORLANDO and OLIVER.

Orlando did approach the Man

it was his Brother

And found it

London, Published January 1, 1783 by Charles Taylor No28 Dyers Buildings, Holborrt.

This feen, Orlando did approach the man,

And found it was his brother, his elder brother. CEL. O, I have heard him speak of that fame brother;

And he did render him the most unnatural

That liv'd 'mongst men.

OLI.

And well he might fo do,

For well I know he was unnatural.

Ros. But, to Orlando ;-Did he leave him there, Food to the fuck'd and hungry lionefs?

OLI. Twice did he turn his back, and purpos'd fo: But kindness, nobler ever than revenge, And nature, ftronger than his juft occafion, Made him give battle to the lionefs,

Who quickly fell before him; in which hurtling From miferable flumber I awak'd.

CEL. Are you his brother?

Ros.

Was it you he rescu'd?

CEL. Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill

him?

OLI. 'Twas I; but 'tis not I: I do not fhame To tell you what I was, fince my converfion So fweetly taftes, being the thing I am.

Ros. But, for the bloody napkin?—

6 And he did render him—] i. e. defcribe him. MALONE. So, in Cymbeline:

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May drive us to a render where we have liv'd."

STEEVENS,

in which hurtling-]. To hurtle is to move with impetuofity and tumult. So, in Julius Cæfar:

"A noife of battle hurtled in the air.”

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Again, in Nash's Lenten Stuff, &c. 1591: hearing of the gangs of good fellows that hurtled and buftled thither," &c. Again, in Spenfer's Faerie Queen, B. I. c. iv:

"All hurtlen forth, and the with princely pace," &c. Again, B. I. c. viii:

Came burtling in full fierce, and forc'd the knight retire."

STEEVENS,