And as mine eye doth his effigies witness That lov'd your father: The refidue of your fortune, Go to my cave and tell me.-Good old man, Thou art right welcome as thy master is :"— Support him by the arm.-Give me your hand, And let me all your fortunes understand. [Exeunt. I find the verfe" Nor fhrink before the wintry wind," is altered to "Nor fhrink before the warping wind." HOLT WHITE. The meaning is this: Though the very waters, by thy agency, are forced, against the law of their nature, to bend from their ftated level, yet thy fting occafions lefs anguifh to man, than the ingratitude of those he befriended. HENLEY. Wood is faid to warp when its furface, from being level, becomes bent and uneven; from warpan, Sax. to caft. So, in this play, A& III. fc. iii: " then one of you will prove a fhrunk pannel, and, like green timber, warp, warp." I doubt whether the poet here alludes to any operation of froft. The meaning may be only, Thou bitter wintry sky, though thou curleft the waters, thy fting, &c. Thou in the line before us refers only to-bitter fky. The influence of the winter's fky or feafon may, with fufficient propriety, be faid to warp the furface of the ocean, by agitation of its waves alone. That this paffage refers to the turbulence of the fky, and the confequent agitation of the ocean, and not to the operation of froft, may be collected from our author's having in King John described ice as uncommonly fmooth: "To throw a perfume on the violet, "Tofmooth the ice," &c. MALONE. 6 As friend remember'd not.] Remember'd for remembering. So, afterwards, A&t III. fc. laft: ACT III. SCENE I. A Room in the Palace. Enter Duke FREDERICK, OLIVER, Lords, and Attendants. DUKE F. Not fee him fince? Sir, fir, that cannot be: But were I not the better part made mercy, I fhould not feek an abfent argument 8 Of my revenge, thou prefent: But look to it; Seek him with candle; bring him dead or living, Thy lands, and all things that thou doft call thine, Worth feizure, do we feize into our hands; OLI. O, that your highness knew my heart in this! I never lov'd my brother in my life. DUKE F. More villain thou.-Well, pufh him out of doors; an abfent argument-] An argument is ufed for the contents of a book, thence Shakspeare confidered it as meaning the fubject, and then used it for fubject in yet another fenfe. JOHNSON. Seek him with candle;] Alluding, probably, to St. Luke's Gofpel, ch. xv. v. 8: " If the lofe one piece, doth fhe not light a candle, and feek diligently till fhe find it?" STEEVENS. And let my officers of fuch a nature [Exeunt. SCENE II. The Foreft. Enter ORLANDO, with a Paper. ORL. Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love: And, thou, thrice-crowned queen of night,' fur vey With thy chafte eye, from thy pale fphere above, Thy huntress' name, that my full life doth fway.* 9 And let my officers of fuch a nature Make an extent upon his house and lands:] "To make an extent of lands," is a legal phrafe, from the words of a writ, (extendi facias) whereby the theriff is directed to caufe certain lands to be appraised to their full extended value, before he delivers them to the perfon entitled under a recognizance, &c. in order that it may be certainly known how foon the debt will be paid. MALONE. 2 — expediently,] That is, expeditiously. JOHNSON. Expedient, throughout our author's plays, fignifies-expeditious. So, in King John: "His marches are expedient to this town." Again, in King Richard II: Are making hither with all due expedience." STEEVENS. 3 thrice-crowned queen of night,] Alluding to the triple character of Proferpine, Cynthia, and Diana, given by fome mythologifts to the fame goddefs, and comprised in thefe memorial lines: Terret, luftrat, agit, Proferpina, Luna, Diana, JOHNSON. 4 that my full life doth fway.] So, in Twelfth Night: "M. O. A. I. doth fway my life." STEEVENS. O Rofalind! thefe trees fhall be my books, Enter CORIN and TOUCHSTONE. COR. And how like you this fhepherd's life, mafter Touchstone? TOUCH. Truly, fhepherd, in refpect of itself, it is a good life; but in refpect that it is a fhepherd's life, it is naught. In refpect that it is folitary, I like it very well; but in refpect that it is private, it is a very vile life. Now in refpect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in refpect it is not in the court, it is tedious. As it is a fpare life, look you, it fits my humour well; but as there. is no more plenty in it, it goes much against my stomach. Haft any philosophy in thee, fhepherd? COR. No more, but that I know, the more one fickens, the worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends-That the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn: That good pafture makes fat fheep; and that a great cause of the night, is lack of the fun: That he, that hath learned no wit by 4- unexpressive-] For inexpreffible. JOHNSON. Milton alfo, in his Hymn on the Nativity, ufes unexpreffive for inexpreffible: Harping with loud and folemn quire, "With unexpreffive notes to heaven's new-born heir." MALONE. nature nor art, may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred." TOUCH. Such a one is a natural philosopher." Waft ever in court, fhepherd? COR. No, truly, TOUCH. Then thou art damn'd. TOUCH. Truly, thou art damn'd; like an illroafted egg, all on one fide. 5 he, that hath learned no wit by nature nor art, may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred.] I am in doubt whether the custom of the language in Shakspeare's time did not authorife this mode of fpeech, and make complain of good breeding the fame with complain of the want of good breeding. In the lat line of The Merchant of Venice we find that to fear the keeping is to fear the not keeping. JOHNSON. I think, he means rather-may complain of a good education, for being fo inefficient, of fo little ufe to him. MALONE. 6 Such a one is a natural philofopher.] The fhepherd had faid all the philofophy he knew was the property of things, that rain wetted, fire burnt, &c. And the Clown's reply, in a fatire on phyficks or natural philofophy, though introduced with a quibble, is extremely juft. For the natural philofopher is indeed as ignorant (notwithstanding all his parade of knowledge) of the efficient caufe of things, as the ruftic. It appears, from a thousand inftances, that our poet was well acquainted with the phyfics of his time; and his great penetration enabled him to fee this remedilefs. defect of it. WARBURTON. Shak fpeare is refponfible for the quibble only, let the commentator answer for the refinement. STEEVENS. The Clown calls Corin a natural philofopher, because he reafons from his obfervations on nature. M. MASON. A natural being a common term for a fool, Touchftone, perhaps, means to quibble on the word. He may however only mean, that Corin is a feif-taught philofopher; the difciple of nature. MALONE. 7 — like an ill-roafted egg,] Of this jeft I do not fully comprehend the meaning. JOHNSON. There is a proverb, that a fool is the best roafter of an egg, because he is always turning it. This will explain how an egg may |