And he doth sin, that doth belie the dead; Bard. I cannot think, my lord, your son is dead. From whence with life he never more sprung up. And Westmoreland: this is the news at full. [7] The bell, anciently was rung before expiration, and thence was called the passing bell, ie the hell that solicited prayers for the soul passing into another world. STEEVENS. STEEVENS. [8] By faint quittance is meant a faint return of blows. [9] Abated is not put here for the general idea of diminished, nor for the notion of blunted, as applied to a single edge. Abated means reduced to a lower temper, or, as the workmen call it, let down JOHNSON. [1] Began to fall his courage, to let his spirits sink under his fortune. JOHNS, North. For this I shall have time enough to mourn. Out of his keeper's arms; even so my limbs, Must glove this hand and hence, thou sickly quoif; Tra. This strained passion doth you wrong, my lord. Lean on your health; the which, if you give o'er You cast th' event of war, my noble lord, And summ'd the account of chance, before you said,——— Let us make head. It was your presurmise, That, in the dole of blows, your son might drop: You knew, he walk'd o'er perils, on an edge, You were advis'd, his flesh was capable [2] Bend; yield to pressure. JOHNSON. [3] The conclusion of this noble speech is extremely striking. There is no need to suppose it exactly philosophical; darkness, in poetry, may be absence of eyes, as well as privation of light. Yet we may remark, that by an ancient opinion it has been held, that if the human race, for whom the world was made, were extirpated, the whole system of sublunary nature would cease. JOHNSON. [4] The Hole of blows is the distribution of blows. Dole originally signified the portion of alms (consisting either of meat or money) that was given away at the door of a nobleman. STEEVENS. Of wounds and scars; and that his forward spirit Bard. We all, that are engaged to this loss, Mort. 'Tis more than time: And, my most noble lord, Suppos'd sincere and holy in his thoughts, North. I knew of this before; but, to speak truth, Go in with me; and counsel every man The aptest way for safety, and revenge : [5] That is, stands over his country to defend her as she lies bleeding on the ground. So Falstaff efore says to the prince, "If thou see me down, Hal, and be stride me, so it is an office of friendship" [C] More and less means greater and less. JOHNSON. Get posts, and letters, and make friends with speed; Never so few, and never yet more need. SCENE II. [Exeunt. London. A Street. Enter Sir JOHN FALSTAFF, with his Page, bearing his sword and buckler. Fal. Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my water ?7 Page. He said, sir, the water itself was a good healthy water but, for the party that owed it, he might have more diseases than he knew for. Fal. Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk before thee, like a sow, that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. If the prince put thee into my service for any other reason than to set me off, why then I have no judgment. Thou whoreson mandrake, thou art fitter to be worn in my cap, than to wait at my heels. I was nev er manned with an agate till now :9 but I will set you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and send you back again to your master, for a jewel; the juvenal, the prince your master, whose chin is not yet fledged. I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand, than he shall get one on his cheek; and yet he will not stick to say, his face is a face-royal: God may finish it when he will, it is not a hair amiss yet he may keep it still as a face-royal, for a barber shall never earn sixpence out of it; and yet he will be crowing, as if he had writ man ever since his father was a bachelor. He may keep his own grace, but he is almost out of mine, I can assure him.What said master Dumbleton about the satin for my short cloak, and slops? [7] The method of investigating diseases by the inspection of urine only, was once so much the fashion, that Linacre, the founder of the College of Physicians, formed a statute to restrain apothecaries from carrying the water of their patients to a doctor, and afterwards giving medicines, in consequence of the opinions they received concerning it. STEEVENS. [8] Mandrake is a root supposed to have the shape of a man; it is now counterfeited with the root of briony. JOHNSON. [9] That is, I never before had an agate for my man. JOHNSON. Alluding to the little figures cut in agates, and on the other bard stones, for seals; and therefore he says, 1 will set you neither in gold nor silver. WARB. 4. Page. He said, sir, you should procure him better as surance than Bardolph: he would not take his bond and yours; he liked not the security. Fal. Let him be damned like the glutton! may his tongue be hotter!'-A whoreson Achitophel! a rascally yea-forsooth knave! to bear a gentleman in hand, and then stand upon security!-The whoreson smooth-pates do now wear nothing but high shoes, and bunches of keys at their girdles; and if a man is thorough with them in honest taking up, then they must stand upon security.-I had as lief they would put ratsbane in my mouth, as of fer to stop it with security. I looked he should have sent me two and twenty yards of satin, as I am a true knight, and he sends me security. Well, he may sleep in security; for he hath the horn of abundance, and the lightness of his wife shines through it: and yet cannot he see, though he have his own lantern to light him.-Where's Bardolph ? Page. He's gone into Smithfield, to buy your worship a horse. Fal. I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse in Smithfield: an I could get me but a wife in the stews, I were manned, horsed, and wived. Enter the Lord Chief Justice, and an Attendant. Page. Sir, here comes the nobleman that committed the prince for striking him about Bardolph. Fal. Wait close, I will not see him. Ch. Just. What's he that goes there? Atten. Falstaff, an't please your lordship. Ch. Just. He that was in question for the robbery ? Atten. He, my lord: but he hath since done good service at Shrewsbury; and, as I hear, is now going with some charge to the lord John of Lancaster. Ch. Just. What, to York? Call him back again. Fal. Boy, tell him, I am deaf. Page. You must speak louder, my master is deaf. [2] An allusion to the fate of the rich man, who had fared sumptuously every day, when he requested a drop of water to cool his tongue, being tormented with the flames. HENLEY. [3] That is, if a man by taking up goods is in their debt. To be thorough seems to be the same with the present phrase,-To be in with a tradesman. JOHNSON. [4] At that time the resort of idle people, cheats, and knights of the post. In an old collection of proverbs, I find the following: "Who goes to Westminster for a wife, to St. Paul's for a man, and to Smithfield for a horse, may meet with a whore, a knave, and a jade." STEEVENS. |