The same expression is used by Dr. Wilson in his Arte of Rhetorique, 1553: “ And make him at his wit's end through the sudden quip.” MALONE 122. beauty lives with kindness:] Beauty without kindness dies unenjoyed, and undelighting. 153. JOHNSON. -out of all nick.] Beyond all reckoning or count. Reckonings are kept upon nicked or notched sticks or tallies. WARBURTON. So, in A Woman never vex'd, 1632. "I have carried "The tallies at my girdle seven years together, For I did ever love to deal honestly in the nick.Y As it is an inn-keeper who employs the allusion, it is much in character. STEEVENS. 173. You have your wish; my will is even this,~ The word will is here ambiguous. He wishes to gair her will she tells him, if he wants her will he has it. JOHNSON. 194. The first folio has her grave. This necessary emendation made in the second folio. MALONE. -in his grave. 210. But, since your falsehood, shall become you well] This is hardly sense. We may read with very little alteration, But since you're false, it shall become you well. JOHNSON. There is no occasion for any alteration, if we only suppose that it is understood here, as in several other places. But, well But, since your falsehood, shall become you To worship shadows, and adore false shapes, 2. e. But, since your falsehood, it shall become you well, &c. Or indeed, in this place, To worship shadows, &c. may be considered as the nominative case to shall become. TYRWHITT. I incline strongly to Dr. Johnson's emendation. Falsehood and false it, when indistinctly pronounced, are so like, that the transcriber's ear might easily have deceived him. MALONE. "I am very loth, says Silvia, to be your idol; but since your falsehood to your friend and mistress will become you to worship shadows, and adore false shapes (i. e. will be properly employed in so doing), send to me, and you shall have my picture." REMARKS. 217. -hallidom,] i. e. my holy dame; our lady. REMARKS 232. your ladyship's impose,] Impose is injunction, command. A task set at college, in consequence of a fault, is still called an imposition. STEEVENS. 237. Remorseful,] i. e. pitiful. STEEVENS. 245. Upon whose grave thou vou'dst pure chastity.]' It was common in former ages for widowers and widows to make vows of chastity in honour of their deceased wives or husbands. In Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, page 1013, there is the form of a commission by the bishop of the diocese for taking. a vow of chastity made by a widow. It seems that, besides observing the vow, the widow was, for life, to to wear a veil and a mourning habit. The same distinction we may suppose to have been made in respect of male votarists; and therefore this circumstance might inform the players how Sir Eglamour should be drest; and will account for Silvia's having chosen him as a person in whom she could confide without injury to her own character. STEEVENS. grievances:] Sorrows, sorrowful affecJOHNSON. 261. tions. 264. Recking as little- -] To reck is to care for. So, in Hamlet: "And recks not his own read." Both Chaucer and Spenser use this word with the same signification. STEEVENS. 283. -keep himself-] i. e. restrain himself. STEEVENS. 285. -to be a dog- -] I believe we should read, I would have, &c. one that takes upon him to be a dog, to be a dog indeed, to be, &c. JOHNSON. 293. a pissing while,] This expression is used in Ben Jonson's Magnetick Lady: " --have patience but a pissing while.” It appears from Ray's Collection, that it is proverbial. STEEVENS. 298. The fellow that whips the dogs :] This appears to have been part of the office of an usher of the table. So, in Mucedorus: "I'll prove my office good; for look you, &c. -When a dog chance to blow his nose backward, then with a whip I give him good time of the day, and strew rushes presently." STEEVENS. 303. -their servant ? -] The old copy reads, STEEVENS. 309. -his servant? madam Silvia;-] Perhaps we should read, of madam Julia. It was Julia only of whom a formal leave could have been taken. STEEVENS. 328. the other squirrel, &c.] Sir T. Hanmer reads, the other, Squirrel, &c. and consequently makes Squirrel the proper name of the beast. Perhaps Launce only speaks of it as a diminutive animal, more resembling a squirrel in size, than a dog. --an end, STEEVENS. 335. clusion of every business he undertakes. -] i. e. in the end, at the con STEEVENS. 343. -thou, -] The first folio reads thee. MALONE. 347. It seems, you lov'd not her, to leave her token :] Protheus does not properly leave his lady's token, he gives it away. The old edition has it, It seems you lov'd her not, not leave her token. I should correct it thus: It seems you lov'd her not, nor love her token. JOHNSON. To leave, seems to be here used for, to part with. It is used with equal licence, in a former place in this play, for to cease: I leave to be, Foster'd. The The reading in the text is that of the second folio. MALONE. 376. To carry that, which I would have refus'd;] The sense is, To go and present that which I wish to be not accepted, to praise him whom I wish to be dis, praised. JOHNSON. 427. But since she did neglect her looking-glass, And threw her sun-e n-expelling mask away, The air hath starv'd the roses in her cheeks, That now she is become as black as 1.] To starve the roses is certainly a very proper expression; but what is pinching a tincture? However, starved, in the third line, made the blundering editors write pinch'd in the fourth though they might have seen that it was a tanning, scorching, not a freezing air that was spoken of. For how could this latter quality in the air so affect the whiteness of the skin as to turn it black? We should read, And PITCH'D the lily-tincture of her face. i. e. turned the white tincture black, as the following line has it: That now she is become as black as I : and we say, in common speech, as black as pitch.-By the roses being starv'd, is only meant their being withered, and losing their colour. WARBURTON. This is no emendation; none ever heard of a face being pitched by the weather. The colour of a part pinched, is livid, as it is commonly termed, black and blue. The weather may therefore be justly said to |