1 I have stoln nought, nor would not, though I'd found Guid. Mony, youth? Arv. All gold and silver rather turn to dirt! Imo. I see, you're angry: Bel. Whither bound? Imo. Fidele, Sir; I have a Kinsman, who Bel. Prythee, fair youth, Guid. Were you a woman, youth, Arv. I'll make't my comfort, Imo. (37) Mongst friends, Το (37) Imo. Mongst Friends? To thee, Pofthumus. Bel. He wrings at some distress. Arv. Or I, whate'er it be, [Whispering: by That nothing-gift of defering multitudes, Could not out-peer these twain. - Pardon me, Gods ! I'd change my Sex to be companion with them, Since Leonatus is false. Bel. It shall be so: Boys, we'll go dress our Hunt. Fair youth, come in; ing, and therefore have ventur'd to reform it. Arviragus had said, he would love Imogen as a Brother, gives her a Welcome as such, and tells her, She is fall'n among Friends. Among Friends, indeed, replies She very naturally, if I am to stand in the Rank of a Brother. Then striking into a private Reflexion on having lost her own Brothers, She wishes, these Two kind Youths were but her Father's Sons. This Sense is plainly confirm’d by What she says in the last Scene of the Play, where they are discover'd to be really her Brothers. You callod me Brother, When ye were fo, indeed. (38) laying by Could not out-peer these Twain.] The only Idea, that differing can here convey, is, variable, changing Multitudes; as in the Prologue to 2 Henry IV. The ftill-discordant, wav'ring Multitude. But then what is the Nothing-Gift which they are suppos’d to bestow? The Poet must mean, that Court, that obsequious Adoration, which the shifting Vulgar pay to the Great, is a Tribute of no Price or Value. So in K. Henry V. O Ceremony, Jhew me but thy Worth; Art Thou Aught else, but Place, Degree, and Forme: I am persuaded therefore, our Poet coin'd this Participle from the French Verb, and wrote That Nothing-Gift of defering Multitudes, i. e. obsequious, paying Deference. - Deferer, Ceder par Respect à quelcun, ebeir, condescendre &c. RICHELET. Discourse Discourse is heavy, fafting; when we've supp'd, Guid. I pray, draw near. less welcome! [Exeunt. SCENE changes to Rome. 1 Sen. TH Enter two Roman Senators, and Tribunes. action Tri. Is Lucius Gen'ral of the Forces ? i Sen. With those Legions Levy Must be suppliant : The words of your Commission Will tie you to the numbers and the time (39) And to You, the Tribienes His absolute Commiffion.] Commands bis Commission is fuch a Phrase as Shakespeare would hardly have us’d. I have, by Mr. Warburton's Advice, ventur'd to substitute; he commends His absolute Commiffion. i. e. he recommends the Care of making this Levy to you; and gives you an absolute Commission for so doing. OF Of their dispatch. Tri. (40) We will discharge our duty. [Exeunt. А СТ IV. SCENE, the Forest, in WALE S. Enter Cloten alone. I Am near to th' place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapp'd it truly. How fit his gar ments serve me! why should his mistress, who was made by him that made the tailor, not be fit too? the rather, (saving reverence of the word, because 'tis said, a woman's fitness comes by fits. Therein I must play the workman; I dare speak it to my self, (for it is not vain-glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber ;) I mean, the lines of my body are as well drawn as his; no less young; more strong, not beneath him in fortunes, beyond him in the advantage of the time, above him in birth, alike conversant in general services, and more remarkable in single oppofitions ; yet this imperseverant thing loves him in my despight. What mortality is ! Pofthumus, thy head, (40) Tri. We will discharge our Duty.] Here the Third Act ends in the old Copies; and Mr. Rowe has follow'd that Divifion. Mr. Pope has not only thought fit to degrade the preceding short Scene ; but allo to transpose hither a Scene (lying in Cymbeline's Palace) towards the Conclusion of the Fourth Act; and with that finishes the Third. This is done, without any Authority from the Copies; tacitly, and without any Reason assign'd for it: and, indeed, without any Thing in the Dispofition of the Scenary requiring it. If the bringing the Acts to a more re gular Equality was the Ground of this Change, That's a Point we are not to tie our Poet up to. As the Liberty taken, therefore, is both needless, and arbitrary, I have chose to follow the Order of more authentick Copies. Had Mr. Pope spar'd us a critical Note, to justify his Conduct in this Transposition; I might, perhaps, have submitted to the Sagacity and weight of it. Which is now growing upon thy fhoulders, shall with in this hour be off, thy mistress enforc'd, thy garments cut to pieces before thy face; and all this done, spurn her home to her father, who may, happily, be a little angry for my so rough usage; but my mother, having power of his testiness, shall turn all into my commen dations. My horse is ty'd up fafe: outs Tword, and to a fore purpose ! fortune put them into my hand, this is the very description of their meeting place, and the fellow dares not deceive me. ?**'[Exit. SCENE changes to the Front of the Cave: from the Cave. àre not well: remain here in the Cave; We'll come t'you after hunting. [To Imogen. Are we not brothers ? Imo. So man and man-fhould be ; Guid. Go you to hunting, I'll abide with him. Imo. So fick I am not, yet I am not well Guid. I love thee: I have fpoke it ; Bel. What ? how? how? Arv. If it be fin to say so, Sir, I yoak me I |
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