Religious in mine error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, Hel. Count. Madam, I had. Wherefore? tell true. For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me To cure the desperate languishes, whereof; • Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth,] i. e. whose respectable conduct in age shows, or proves, that you were no less virtuous when young. Wish chastly, und love dearly, that your Dian Was both herself and love;] i. e. Venus. Helena means to1 say-" If ever you wished that the deity who presides over chastity, and the queen of amorous rites, were one and the same person; or, in other words, if ever you wished for the honest and lawful completion of your chaste desires." -notes, whose faculties inclusive] Receipts in which greater virtues were enclosed than appeared to observation. This was your motive The king is render'd lost. For Paris, was it? speak. Hel. My lord your son made me to think of this; Else Paris, and the medicine, and the king, Had, from the conversation of my thoughts, If Count. you But think you, Helen, should tender your supposed aid, He would receive it? He and his physicians Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him, Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off Hel. There's something hints, More than my father's skill, which was the greatest Of his profession, that his good receipt Shall, for my legacy, be sanctified By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would honour your But give me to leave to try success, I'd venture Count. Dost thou believ't? Hel. Ay, madam, knowingly. Count. Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave, and love, Means, and attendants, and my loving greetings [Exeunt. • Embowell'd of their doctrine,] i. e. exhausted of their skill. SCENE I Paris. ACT II. Paris. A Room in the King's Palace. Flourish. Enter King, with young Lords, taking leave for the Florentine war; BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and Attendants. King. Farewell, young lord, these warlike principles Do not throw from you:-and you, my lord, farewell: Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all, And is enough for both. 1 Lord. It is our hope, sir, After well enter'd soldiers, to return And find your grace in health. lords; King. No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart. Will not confess he owes the malady That doth my life besiege." Farewell, Farewell, young Whether I live or die, be you the sons Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy (Those 'bated, that inherit but the fall Of the last monarchy,) see, that you come 7 8 and yet my heart, &c.] i. e. in the common phrase, I am still heart-whole; my spirits, by not sinking under my distemper, do not acknowledge its influence. 8 let higher Italy (Those 'bated, that inherit but the fall Of the last monarchy,) see, &c.] The antient geographers have divided Italy into the higher and the lower, the Apennine hills being a kind of natural line of partition; the side next the Adriatic was denominated the higher Italy, and the other side the lower; and the two seas followed the same terms of distinction, the Adriatic being called the upper Sea, and the Tyrrhene, or Tuscan, the lower. Now the Sennones, or Senois, with whom Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when 2 Lord. Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty! King. Those girls of Italy, take heed of them; Both. [The King retires to a couch. 1 Lord. O my sweet lord, that you will stay be hind us! Par. "Tis not his fault; the spark 2 Lord. O, 'tis brave wars! Par. Most admirable: I have seen those wars. Ber. I am commanded here, and kept a coil with; Too young, and the next year, and 'tis too early. Par. An thy mind stand to it, boy, steal away bravely. Ber. I shall stand here the forehorse to à smock, Creaking my shoes on, the plain masonry, Till honour be bought up, and no sword worn, the Florentines are here supposed to be at war, inhabited the higher Italy, their chief town being Arminium, now called Rimini, upon the Adriatic. HANMER. Dr. Johnson says, that the sense may be this: Let upper Italy, where you are to exercise your valour, see that you come to gain honour, to the abatement, that is, to the disgrace and depression of those that have now lost their antient military fame, and inherit but the fall of the last monarchy. To abate is used by Shakspeare in the original sense of abatre, to depress, to sink, to deject, to subdue. 9 beware of being captives, Before you serve.] The word serve is equivocal; the sense is, Be not captives before you serve in the war. But one to dance with!' By heaven, I'll steal away. 1 Lord. There's honour in the theft. Par..1 Commit it, Count. 2 Lord. I am your accessary; and so farewell. Ber. I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body. 1 Lord. Farewell, captain, 2 Lord. Sweet monsieur Parolles! Par. Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin, Good sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals;— You shall find in the regiment of the Spinii, one captain Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword entrenched it say to him, I live; and observe his reports for me: 2 Lord. We shall, noble captain. Par. Mars dote on you for his novices! [Exeunt Lords.] What will you do? Ber. Stay; the king [Seeing him rise. Par. Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords; you have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to them; for they wear themselves in the cap of the time, there, do muster true gait, eat, speak, and move under 1 70. and no sword worn, But one to dance with!] It should be remembered that, in Shakspeare's time, it was usual for gentlemen to dance with swords on. Our author gave to all countries the manners of his own, 2 they wear themselves in the cap of the time, there, do muster true gait, &c.] The obscurity of the passage arises from the fantastical language of a character like Parolles, whose affectation of wit urges his imagination from one allusion to another, without allowing time for his judgment to determine their congruity. The cap of time being the first image that occurs, true gait, manner of eating, speaking, &c. are the several ornaments which they muster, place, or arrange in time's cap. This is done under the influence of the most received star; that is, the person in the highest repute for setting the fashions:-and though the devil were |