Holo. "Not Iscariot, sir Judas I am, ycleped Maccabaeus." Dum. "Judas Maccabaeus clipt, is plain Judas." Biron. "A kissing traitor.-How art thou proved, Judas?" Holo. "Judas I am." Dum. "The more shame for you, Judas." Holo. "What mean you, Sir?" Boyet. "To make Judas hang himself." Holo. "Begin, sir: you are my elder." Biron. "Well followed: Judas was hang'd on an elder." A play on the word "Judas," with direct references from Matt. xxvi. 14-" Then one of the twelve, Judas Iscariot." 15-" And from that time he sought opportunitie to betray him." Matt. xxvi. 49-" And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, God save thee master, and kissed him." Matt. xxvii. 5-" And when hee had cast downe the silver pieces in the Temple, he departed and went and hanged himselfe." he Luke vi. 16-"Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitour." Act. V. ii. 622-"A light for Monsieur Judas! it grows dark, stumble." may A reference to the fact that it was dark when Judas went out to betray. John xiii. 26-"He wet a sop and gave it to Judas Iscariot." 30—" Assoone then as he had received the soppe, he went immediately out, and it was night." John xi. 9, 10-" If a man walke in the night, he stumbleth." Act V. ii. 779 "A time methinks too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.” Matt. xix. 6—“ Wherefore they are no more twaine, but one flesh." Matt. x. 9-" Therefore what God hath coupled together, let no man separate." Compare also for the phrase "The Gloria." TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. 1589-91, FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE FOLIO OF 1623. Act I. i. 16 Valentine. "If ever danger do environ thee Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers Acts xii. 5—" In prison, but earnest prayer was made of the Church unto God for him." Psalm lv., J. Hopkins "At morning, noone and evening tide Unto the Lord I pray." Act II. ii. 7-Julia. "And seale the bargaine with a holy kisse." Direct quotation from Scripture— I Thess. v. 26—“ Greete all the brethren with a holy kisse." Act II. iii. 23-Launce. "I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the imperial's court." Play on the words "portion" and "prodigal." Luke xv. 12-" And the younger of them sayd to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me;" "he took his journey into a farre countrey." Act II. v. 38-Launce. "Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable." For parallel thought and use of the same words see Matt. xiii. 35-"I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world." Prov. i. 6" To understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their darke sayings." Act II. v. 51-Launce. "If thou wilt goe with me to the ale house; if not thou art an Hebrew, a Jew, and not worth the name of a Christian. Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to goe to the ale with a Christian." Direct Scripture reference— Acts x. 28-"Yee know that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to company or to come unto one of another nation." Act II. vi. II— Proteus. "Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken And he wants wit, that wants resolved will To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better." Judges xi. 30-" And Iphtah vowed a vowe unto the Lorde and sayd, If thou shalt deliver the children of Ammon into mine handes, then that thing that commeth out of the doores of mine house to meete me, when I come home in peace from the children of Ammon, shal be the Lordes and I will offer it for a burnt offering." The Genevan has a note "Being overcome with blinde zeale, and not considering whether the vow was lawfull or no," "so by his rash vowe and wicked performance of the same, his victorie was defaced." Act II. vii. 18 Julia. "Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, Song of Sol. viii. 6, 7-"Love is strong as death. Much water cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." Act II. vii. 38—" There I'll rest, as, after much turmoil "Paradise." Genevan Note-"the place of everlasting joy and salvation, a most pleasant rest of the soules of the godly and most quiet and joyfull dwelling." Heb. iv. 9, 10—“There remaineth therefore a rest." Act III. i. 19— Proteus. "Than, by concealing it, heap on your head A pack of sorrows, which would press you down Compare Jacob and Benjamin, Gen. xlii. 38-" If death come unto him by the way which ye goe, then yee shall bring my gray head with sorrow to the grave." Act III. i. 85-"For long agone." Tyn. and Genevan use "agone." Rom. xv. 23—"Many yeers agone to come to thee." Ps. lxxvii., J. Hopkins-"The times and ages that are past full many yeeres agone." Act III. ii. 334-Speed. "She is proud." Launce. "Out with that too; it was Eve's legacy and cannot be ta'en from her." Direct Scripture reference Ecclus. x. 14-" For pride is the original of sinne, and he that hath it shall powre forth abomination, till at last hee be overthrowen." Gen. iii. 6—“So the woman (seeing the tree was good for meate and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke the fruite thereof and did eate." Act IV. iv. 160-" For, at Pentecost." Biblical word. Act V. iv. 22— Valentine. "O! thou that dost inhabit in my breast Leave not the mansion so long tenantless Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall." Compare the Biblical comparison of the body as a mansion. Luke xi. 24—“I will return unto mine house whence I came out." I Cor. vi. 19-"Your body is the Temple." 1 Cor. iii. 16-"Ye are the Temple of God." 2 Cor. v. I-"Our earthly house of this tabernacle." Wisd. of Sol. ix. 15-"Because a corruptible body is heavy unto the soule, and the earthly mansion keepeth downe the minde that is full of cares." Act V. iv. 68 Valentine. "Who should be trusted now, when one's right hand Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus I am sorry I must never trust thee more, But count the world a stranger for thy sake The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst! 'Mongst all foes, that a friend should be the worst!" For parallel thought see John xiii. 18—" He that eateth bread with me, hath lift up his heele against mee." Ps. xli. 9-" Yea my familiar friend, whome I trusted, which did eate of my bread, hath lifted up the heele against mee.” Ps. lv. 12-14-"But it was thou, O man, even my companion, my guide, and familiar, which delited in consulting together." Matt. xxvi. 48—" Now he that betraide him had given them a token saying, Whomsoever I shall kisse, that is he, lay holde on him." Act V. iv. 79 Valentine. "Who by repentance is not satisfied. Is nor of heaven nor earth; for these are pleas'd Ps. cvi. 4, 5—“He remembered his covenant toward them and repented according to the multitude of His mercies." Exod. xxxii. 12—“Turne from thy fierce wrath, and change thy mind from this evill toward thy people." 14-" Then the Lord changed his mind from the evill which he threatned to doe unto his people." Jer. xviii. 8-"If this nation against whom I have pronounced, turne from their wickednesse, I will repent of the plague that I thought to bring upon them." Ephes. iv. 32" Freely forgiving one another. Even as God for Christe's sake, hath forgiven you." Act V. iv. 109 Proteus. "O Heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect: that one error Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins.” |