SCENE II.-The forest. Enter ORLANDO, with a paper. Orl. Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love: Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where. Enter CORIN and TOUCHSTONE. 5 ΙΟ [Exit. Cor. And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touch. Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good SCENE II... paper] As Capell; Scena Secunda. Enter Orlando Ff. 2. thrice-crowned] Theobald; without hyphen Ff. II. Master] Steevens; Mr. Ff 1, 2; M. Ff 3, 4. the words of a writ (extendi facias) whereby the sheriff is directed to cause certain lands to be appraised to their full extended value, before he delivers them to the person entitled under a recognisance, etc., in order that it may be certainly known how soon the debt will be paid" (Malone). 18. expediently] expeditiously. Compare Richard II. 1. iv. 39: "Expedient manage must be made." The New Eng. Dict. quotes only one example outside Shakespeare of this usage: Digby Mysteries (c. 1485), ed. 1882, iii. 817: "In ower weyys we be expedyent.” SCENE II. 2. thrice-crowned queen] The triple character of the divinity Luna, Diana, Hecate, ruling in the sky, on earth, and in the shades, is referred to. Johnson quotes the lines: "Terret, lustrat, agit, Proserpina, Luna, Diana, fulgore, sagittis." 4. huntress] Compare note ante, I. ii. 153, "princess." 4. my full life doth sway] Compare Twelfth Night, 11. v. 118: “‘M.O.À.I.' doth sway my life." 6. character] to engrave, imprint; to inscribe, write. For the literal use, compare Sonnet cviii: "What's in the brain that ink may character ?"; for the figurative, Hamlet, 1. iii. 59:— "These few precepts in thy mind See thou character." 10. unexpressive] inexpressible. See Abbott, 3, for this use of the active adjectival form for the passive, and compare Milton's use of the word in Lycidas, 176, and Hymn to the Nativity, 116. 10. she] Compare Twelfth Night, 1. v. 259, "the cruellest she alive," and Abbott, 244. naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very 15 in thee, shepherd? 20 Cor. No more but that I know the more one sickens, the worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends; that 25 the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and that a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learn'd no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred. 30 Touch. Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast ever in court, shepherd? Cor. No, truly. Touch. Then thou art damn'd. Cor. Nay, I hope. 35 Touch. Truly, thou art damn'd, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side. Cor. For not being at court? Your reason. Touch. Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never saw'st good manners; if thou never saw'st good manners, then thy manners must be wicked; and wickedness 21. Hast] Pope; Has't Ff. 40 27. good] pood F 1. 29, 30. good...or] bad and Hanmer; gross ... or Warburton. 31, 32. Such shepherd] As Pope; Ff divide at philosopher. Wast] Pope; was't Ff, hope.] hope- Rowe. 36. ill-roasted] without hyphen Ff. Wright. 66 15. naught] bad, worthless. Compare Wilson, Logike (ed. 1580), 3: Logike of itself is good, when sophistrie on the other side is naught" (New Eng. Dict.). 29, 30. complain of good breeding] For this construction, compare ante, II. iv. 71, "faints for succour," and Merchant of Venice, v. i. 306-7:— "I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring," where the meanings respectively are, "faints for lack of succour," and "not keeping safe." So here, the meaning is "complain of the lack of good breeding." In the whole passage, Corin Rowe. 35. egg,] Ff; egg, is sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd. Cor. Not a whit, Touchstone: those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country 45 as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court. You told me you salute not at the court, but you kiss your hands: that courtesy would be uncleanly, if courtiers were shepherds. Touch. Instance briefly; come, instance. Cor. Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. 50 Touch. Why, do not your courtiers' hands sweat? and is not the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat of a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance, I 55 say; come. Cor. Besides, our hands are hard. Touch. Your lips will feel them the sooner. Shallow again. A more sounder instance, come. The Cor. And they are often tarr'd over with the surgery of 60 our sheep; and would you have us kiss tar? courtiers' hands are perfumed with civet. Touch. Most shallow man! thou worms-meat, in respect of a good piece of flesh, indeed! Learn of the wise and perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar, the 65 44. Touchstone] Ff; Mr. Touchstone Capell; Master Touchstone Dyce. 53, 62. courtiers'] without apostrophe Ff. 54. a mutton] mutton Ff 2-4, Rowe. 59. more] omitted Pope, Hanmer. 63. shallow man!] Theobald; shallow man: Ff; shallow, man: Rowe. worms-meat] Rowe; wormes meate Ff. 64. flesh, indeed!] Theobald; flesh indeed: Ff; flesh—indeed!— Johnson; flesh: Indeed!- Steevens. 42. parlous] perilous. Compare Richard III. II. iv. 35, "a parlous boy," where the Qq. read “perilous” (Wright). There, however, the meaning is rather "shrewd," as shown by the following words of the Queen: "go to; you are too shrewd." Collier quotes also Day, Law Tricks (1608), “ A parlous youth, sharp and satirical." 48. but hands] without kissing your hands. Abbott, 125, quotes Richard III. II. i. 33: "Whenever Buckingham doth turn On you and yours, but with all numerous examples showing that this word means both the skin with the hair or wool on, and also the mass of wool itself, when shorn. 54. a mutton] Compare Merchant of Venice, I. iii. 172: "As flesh of muttons, beefs and goats." Cotgrave gives "Mouton: A Mutton, a Weather; also, Mutton." 63. worms-meat] Wright suggests as a source the printer's device in Vincentio Saviolo His Practice: "O Wormes meate. O Froath: 0 Vanitie. Why art thou so insolent?" But the idea is biblical: compare Job xix. 26 and Isaiah lxv. 25. 65. perpend] Polonius, Pistol, and Touchstone use this word. very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, 70 75 Cor. You have too courtly a wit for me: I'll rest. Touch. Wilt thou rest damn'd? God help thee, shallow man! God make incision in thee! thou art raw. Cor. Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck. Touch. That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes and the rams together and to offer to get your living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a twelvemonth to a crooked-pated old cuckoldly ram, out of 80 all reasonable match. If thou be'st not damn'd for this, the devil himself will have no shepherds; I cannot see else how thou shouldst 'scape. Cor. Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new mistress's brother. 85 ... 84. reading] Capell; Enter 90. lined] Linde Ff 1-3; 2; the most fair Ff 3, 4; 73. good,] F 1 omits comma. 78. bawd] a bawd Ff 3, 4, Rowe. Master] Steevens; Mr. F 1; M. F 2. 85. Enter Rosalind Ff. 86. western] the western Pope. Lind F 4; limn'd Johnson. 93. the fair of] Ff 1, the face of Rowe ii; the fair face of Keightley conj. 70. incision] The allusion is possibly to the letting of blood, though "raw" may suggest some reference to the art of cooking. Heath suggests the proverbial saying that a silly fellow ought to be "cut for the simples," but unfortunately, gives no parallels. 70. raw] inexperienced. Compare Richard II. II. iii. 42:— "My service, Such as it is, being tender, raw, and young. 86. east Ind] from the East Indies to the West. For its pronuncia tion compare Love's Labour's Lost, IV. iii. 222: 66 savage man of Inde, Bows not his vassal head and strucken blind," and Spenser, Faerie Queene, 1. V. 4 :— "And daintie spices fetch from furthest Ynd, ... And in the wine a solemne oth they bynd." 90. lined drawn with lines, delineated. 93. fair] beauty. There is no need for emendation, Compare Sonnet liii. :— Touch. I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and suppers and sleeping hours excepted: it is the 95 right butter-women's rank to market. Must find love's prick and Rosalind. This is the very false gallop of verses: why do you infect yourself with them? Ros. Peace, you dull fool! I found them on a tree. IIO 96. women's] woman's Johnson. rank to] Ff 3, 4; ranke to Ff 1, 2; rate to Hanmer; rant at Greig conj.; canter to Cartwright. and edd.; Wintred Ff 1, 2. "And therefore to your fair painting set;" no 103. Winter] Ff 3, 4 107. nut] meat Ff 3, 4. and Rosader's Third Sonnet (in Rosalynde), lines 3, 6, 10, 11. See Abbott, 5. 96. right] true, perfect, downright. Compare Antony and Cleopatra, IV. xii. 28: "a right gipsy." 96. butter-women's rank to market] rack (a horse's pace, between trot and amble), canter, rate (with reference to a market-woman's flow of language) have been suggested in emendation. But the original may stand, taking "rank" to mean order, if we take it that Touchstone refers to each scrap of praise, ending with the Rosalind-tag, seeming like one of a succession of butter-women going to market. "Rack" and "can ter are supported by the use of ideas of riding being applied to the movement of verses, as riding-rhyme. Compare also Touchstone's next remark, "This is a very false gallop of verses." Mr. Case suggests, however, that as "rank" is, strictly speaking, "row," the usual explanation that Touchstone refers to the jog-trot movement of the verse, like that of a row of butter-women going to market, is preferable. He quotes iv. iii. In a rank Let thy swans sing her." IOI. cat .. kind] Mr. Case refers me to Gabriel Harvey, Letter Book, p. 120 (cited in Lean's Collectanea, ii. 718), where the proverb is, "Cat will to kind." 103. Winter] White retains the reading of the first and second folios, citing A Knack to Know a Knave, "Wint'red oxen, fodder'd in their stalls." Wright quotes Sonnet cxxx.: "roses damask'd, red and white," and Tempest, v. i. 43: "azured vault," though the parallels are hardly exact. "Oxen overtaken by winter," roses flecked with damask,' (?) and "azure painted vault," are probably the ideas intended by the participial usages; none of which apply to "wintered garments." 99 66 III. false gallop] Compare 1 Henry IV. III. i. 135: mincing poetry: 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag," and Much Ado About Nothing, III. iv. 94 |