As infancy, and grace.-But yet, Paulina, Hermione was not so much wrinkled; nothing So aged, as this seems. O, not by much. Pol. As now she might have done, Per. And give me leave; And do not say, 'tis superstition, that I kneel, and then implore her blessing.-Lady, Dear queen, that ended when I but began, Give me that hand of yours, to kiss. Paul. O patience; The statue is but newly fix'd, the colour's ot dry. Cam. My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on; Which sixteen winters cannot blow away, So many sumtners, dry scarce any joy Did ever so long live; no sorrow, Bot kill'd itself much sooner. Dear my brother, Let him that was the cause of this have power Indeed, my lord, Pol. Masterly done: The very life seems warm upon her lip. [veins As we are mock'd with art. Leon. O sweet Paulina, Make me to think so twenty years together; No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness. Let't alone. Paul. I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirr'd you: but I could afflict you further. As Leon. Do, Paulina; For this affliction has a taste as sweet any cordial comfort.-Still, methinks, There is an air comes from her: what fine chisel Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me, For I will kiss her. Paul. Good, my lord, forbear: The ruddiness upon her lip is wet; You'll mar it, if you kiss it; stain your own Stand by, a looker on. So long could I Either forbear, Paul. Quit presently the chapel; or resolve you For more amazement: if you can behold it, I'll make the statue move indeed, descend, And take you by the hand: but then you'll think, (Which I protest against I am assisted By wicked powers. Music; awake her; strike.(Music.) "Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach; Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come; I'll fill your grave up: stir; nay, come away; Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him Dear life redeems you.-You perceive, she stirs : (Hermione comes down from the pedestal.) Start not: her actions shall be holy, as, You hear, my spell is lawful: do not shun her, Until you see her die again; for then You kill her double: Nay, present your hand: When she was young, you woo'd her; now, Is she become the suitor. That she is living, Were it but told you, should be hooted at Like an old tale; but it appears, she lives, Though yet she speak not. Mark a little while.Please you to interpose, fair madam; kneel, And pray your mother's blessing.-Turn, good lady Our Perdita is found. (Presenting Perdita, who kneels to Hermione. Her. You gods, look down, And from your sacred vials pour your graces Upon my daughter's head!--Tell me, mine own, Where hast thou been preserv'd? where liv'd? how found Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear, that I,- Paul. Leon. O peace, Paulina : Thou should'st a husband take by my consent, As I by thine, a wife: this is a match, And made between's by vows. Thou hast found & Explanatory Notes. groze ACT I. SCENE I. P. 329, c. 1, l. 13. our entertainment, &c.] Though we cannot give you equal entertainment, yet the consciousness of our good-will shall justify us. JOHNSON. Id. 1. 32. royally attornied,] Nobly supplied by substitution of embassies, &c. JOHNSON. Id. 1. 35. -shook hands, as over a vast and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.] Shakspeare has, more than once, taken his imagery from the prints, with which the books of his time were ornamented. If my memory do not deceive me, he had his eye on a wood-cut in Holinshed, while writing the incantation of the weird sisters in Macbeth. There is also an allusion to a print of one of the Henries holding a sword adorned with crowns. In this passage he refers to a device common in the title-page of old books, of two hands extended from opposite clouds, and joined as in token of friendship over a wide waste of country. HENLEY. Id. 44-physics the subject,] Affords a cordial to the state; has the power of assuaging the sense of misery. JOHNSON. Id. 1. 53. Grace to boot!] Grace, or Heaven help me! Id. c. 2, l. 5. And clap thyself my love;] She opened her hand, to clap the palm of it into his, as people do when they confirm a bargain. Hence the phrase-to clap up a bargain, i. e. make one with no other ceremony than the junction of hands. Id. I. 22. The mort o'the deer;] A lesson upon the horn at the death of the deer. Id. 1. 26 I fecks?] A supposed corruption ofin faith. Our present vulgar pronounce it— fegs. Id. 1. 27. Why, that's my bawcock.] Perhaps from beau and coq. It is still said in vulgar language that such a one is a jolly cock, a cock of the game. Id. 1. 32. Still virginalling-] Still playing with her fingers, as a girl playing on the vir ginals. A virginal is a very small kind of spinnet. Queen Elizabeth's virginal book is yet in being, and many of the lessons in it have proved so difficult, as to baffle our most expert players on the harpsichord. STEEVENS. Id. 1. 37 Thou want st a rough pash, and the shoots that I have.] I have lately learned that pash in Scotland signifies a head. The meaning, therefore, I suppose, is this: You tell me, (says Leontes to his son), that you are like me ; that you are my calf. I am the horned bull: thou wantest the rough head and the horns of that animal, completely to resemble your father. MALONE. Id. 1. 42. As o'er died blacks.} Sir T. Hanmer understands blacks died too much, and therefore rotten. JOHNSON. Id. 1. 44. No bourn-] Bourn is boundary. Id. l. 46. --welkin eye:] Blue eye: an eye of the same colour with the welkin, or sky. Id. 1. 47 my collop!] So, in The First Part of King Henry VI "God knows, thou art a collop of my flesh." Id. 1. 48. Affection! thy intention stabs the center: Affection means here imagination, or perhaps more accurately "the disposition of the mind when strongly affected or possessed by a particular idea." Id. 1. 52. credent,] i. e. credible. vas Sou ranger, I e'er heard yet. se bolder vices wanted ainsay what they did, first It is apparent er, or at least, acwords, less should be had. But Shakhis use of negaonce to observe, egatives did not en the negation. is in time changed, - made in opposition seeded gradually, and tained but through an DIL, JOHNSON. ds in the level-] To be in within the reach. our fact are so )] i. e. guilt. -Mr. Malone adds these words line. r'd most unluckily ] i. e. born Lauspicious planet. -strength of limit.] Strength to pass its of the childbed chamber. 1, 7. 11. The flatness of my misery;] how low. how flat I am laid by my mity. JOHNSON. 11. Of the queen's speed,] Of the event of e queen's trial: so we still say, he sped well or ill. JOHNSON. 1. 69. "to the hazard"-MALONE. d. l. 70. commended,] i. e. committed. Id. l. 73. Does my deeds make the blacker!] This vehement retraction of Leontes, accompanied with the confession of more crimes than he was suspected of, is agreeable to our daily experience of the vicissitudes of violent tempers, and the eruptions of minds oppressed with guilt. JOHNSON. lace, Id. c. 2, l. 17. Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honour,] How should Paulina know this? No one had charged the king with this crime except himself, while Paulina was absent, attending on Hermione. The poet seems to have forgotten this. Id l. 21. Id. though a devil Would have shed water out of fire, ere don't: i. e. a devil would have shed tears of pity o'er the damned, ere he would have committed such an action. 1. 53. I am sorry for't;] This is another instance of the sudden changes incident to vehement and ungovernable minds. SCENE III. P. 339, c. 1, l. 4. Thou art perfect then.] Perfect is often used for certain, well assured, or well informed, by almost all our ancient writers. Id. 1. 56. -thy character:] thy description; i e. the writing afterwards discovered with Perdita. - Id. c 2, 5. A boy or a child,] I am told, that in some of our inland counties, a fem le infant, in contradistinction to a male one still termed, among the peasantry,-a child. STEEVENS. Id. l. 35. flap-dragoned it:] i. e. swallowed it, as our ancient topers swallowed flapdragons Id 1 52. —a bearing cloth-] A bearing-cloth is the fine mantle or cloth with which a child is usually covered, when it is carried to the church to be baptized. PERCY. Id. l. 55. ---some changeling: ] i. e. some child left behind by the fairies in the room of one which they had stolen. z' |