In fpending thus your wit in praise of mine. To know his pleasure; and, in that behalf, Tell him, the daughter of the king of France, Boyet. Proud of employment, willingly I go. [Exit. Prin. All pride is willing pride, and yours is fo. Who are the votaries, my loving lords, That are vow-fellows with this virtuous duke? Lord. Longaville is one. Prin. Know you the man? Mar. I knew him, madam; at a marriage feast, Between lord Perigort and the beauteous heir Of Jaques Faulconbridge folemnized, In Normandy faw I this Longaville: A man of fovereign parts he is efteem'd; Well fitted in the arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill, that he would well. The only foil of his fair virtue's glofs, (If virtue's glofs will ftain with any foil) Is a fharp wit 3 match'd with too blunt a will; Whofe edge hath power to cut, whofe will ftill wills It should none fpare that come within his power. Prin. Some merry mocking lord, belike; is't fo? 2 Well fitted -3 -] is well qualified. JOHNSON. 3 match'd with is combined or joined with, JOHNSON, Mar Mar. They fay fo moft, that most his humours know. Prin. Such fhort-liv'd wits do wither as they grow. Who are the reft? Kath. The young Dumain, a well-accomplish'd youth, Of all that virtue love for virtue lov'd: Moft power to do moft harm, leaft knowing ill; Is Rofa. Another of these students at that time Prin. God bless my ladies! are they all in love; That every one her own hath garnifhed With fuch bedecking ornaments of praife? Re-enter Boyet. Prin. Now, what admittance, lord? Boyet. Navarre had notice of your fair approach; And he and his competitors in oath Were all addrefs'd to meet you, gentle lady, 66 4 Were all addrefs'd] To addrefs is to prepare. So in Hamlet: -it lifted up its head, and did addrefs "Itfelf to motion." STEEVENS. VOL. II. Dd. Be Before I came. Marry, thus much I have learnt, To let you enter his unpeopled house. Enter the King, Longaville, Dumain, Biron, and Attendants. King. Fair princess, welcome to the court of Na varre. Prin. Fair, I give you back again; and, welcome I have not yet: the roof of this court is too high to be yours; and welcome to the wide fields too bafe to be mine. King. You fhall be welcome, madam, to my court. Prin. I will be welcome then; conduct me thither. King. Hear me, dear lady; I have fworn an oath. Prin. Our Lady help my lord! he'll be forfworn. King. Not for the world, fair madam, by my will. Prin. Why, will fhall break it; will, and nothing elfe. King. Your ladyfhip is ignorant what it is. Prin. Were my lord fo, his ignorance were wife, Where now his knowledge muft prove ignorance. I hear, your grace hath fworn-out houfe-keeping: "Tis deadly fin to keep that oath, my lord, 5 And fin to break it: But pardon me, I am too fudden bold; Vouchfafe to read the purpofe of my coming,. 5 And fin to break it :] Sir T. Hanmer reads: Not fin to break it. I believe erroneously. The princefs fhews an inconvenience very frequently attending rafh oaths, which, whether kept or broken, produce guilt. JOHNSON. 1 Prin. You will the fooner, that I were away; For you'll prove perjur'd, if you make me ftay. Biron. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? Rof. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? Biron. I know, you did. Rof. How needlefs was it then To ask the question! Biron. You must not be fo quick. Rof. 'Tis long of you, that fpur me with fuch questions. Biron. Your wit's too hot, it speeds too faft, 'twill tire. Rof. Not till it leave the rider in the mire. Biron. What time o' day? Rof. The hour that fools should ask. Biron. Nay, then will I be gone. King. Madam, your father here doth intimate But fay, that he, or we, (as neither have) A hundred thousand more, in furety of the which, and not demands, On On payment, &c.] Ddz The On payment of a hundred thousand crowns, Which we much rather had depart 7 withal, Dear princefs, were not his requests so far Prin. You do the king my father too much wrong, Of that which hath fo faithfully been paid. Prin. We arreft your word :- King. Satisfy me fo. Boyet. So pleafe your grace, the packet is not come, The former editions read: and not demands One payment of a hundred thousand crowns, I have restored, I believe, the genuine fenfe of the paffage. Aquitain was pledged, it feems, to Navarre's father, for 200,000 crowns. The French king pretends to have paid one moiety of this debt, (which Navarre knows nothing of) but demands this moiety back again: inftead whereof (fays Navarre) he should rather pay the remaining moiety and demand to have Aquitain redelivered up to him. This is plain and eafy reafoning upon the fact fuppos'd; and Navarre declares, he had rather receive the refidue of his debt, than detain the province mortgaged for fecurity of it. THEOBALD. 7 depart withal] To depart and to part were anciently fynonymous. So, in K. John: "Hath willingly departed with a part." STEEVENS. Where |