a (Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture, LEON. Though I am satisfied, and need no more Come up to the truth. So have we thought it good, From our free person she should be confin'd, Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence Be left her to perform. Come, follow us; We are to speak in public; for this business Will raise us all. ANT. [Aside.] To laughter, as I take it, If the good truth were known. [Exeunt. a That lack'd, sight only, nought for approbation;] The meaning is,-That wanted, seeing excepted, nothing for proof. SCENE II.-The same. Prison. The outer Room of a He must be told on 't, and he shall: the office EMIL. [ship Most worthy madam, Your honour and your goodness is so evident, That your free undertaking cannot miss A thriving issue: there is no lady living So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyTo visit the next room, I'll presently Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer; Who but to-day hammer'd of this design, But durst not tempt a minister of honour, Lest she should be denied. PAUL. Tell her, Emilia, I'll use that tongue I have: if wit flow from 't, As boldness from my bosom, let 't not be doubted I shall do good. EMIL. Now be you bless'd for it! I'll to the queen: please you, come something [the babe, nearer. GAOL. Madam, if 't please the queen to send I know not what I shall incur to pass it, Having no warrant. a These dangerous unsafe lunes-] To remedy the apparent tautology in this line, Mr. Collier's annotator would have us read, -still more tautologically,— "These dangerous unsane lunes," &c. But the old text needs no alteration; " dangerous," like its syno He took good rest to-night; 'Tis hop'd his sickness is discharg'd. LEON. To see his nobleness! The very thought of my revenges that way "Blank" and "level" are terms in gunnery; the former means mark, the latter range. Tak'st up the princess by that forced baseness Which he has put upon 't! e PAUL. No noise, my lord; but needful conference About some gossips for your highness. LEON. How! Away with that audacious lady!-Antigonus, ANT. I told her so, my lord, On your displeasure's peril and on mine, LEON. PAUL. Good my liege, I come,And, I beseech you, hear me, who professes Myself your loyal servant, your physician, Your most obedient counsellor; yet that dares Less appear so, in comforting your evils, Than such as most seem yours:-I say, I From your good queen. Good queen! come LEON. PAUL. Good queen, my lord, good queen: I say, good queen; And would by combat make her good, so were I A man, the worst about you. LEON. Force her hence. LEON. He dreads his wife! It is yours; And, might we lay the old proverb to your charge, The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger :- LEON. ANT. Hang all the husbands That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself Hardly one subject. LEON. Once more, take her hence! PAUL. A most unworthy and unnatural lord Can do no more. LEON. PAUL. I'll have thee burn'd. I care not: It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't. I'll not call you tyrant; f And, might we lay the old proverb to your charge, So like you, 'tis the worse.-] Overbury quotes this "old proverb" in his character of "A Sargeant":-"The devill cals him his white sonne; he is so like him, that he is the worse for it, and hee lokes after his father."OVERBURY's Works, Ed. 1616. glosel,-] Said to be derived from the Saxon Losian, to lose, and to mean an abandoned, worthless fellow. On your allegiance, Out of the chamber with her! Were I a tyrant, PAUL. I pray you, do not push me; I'll be gone. Look to your babe, my lord; 't is yours: Jove send her [hands? A better guiding spirit!-What needs these [Exit. LEON. Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this.My child? away with 't!-even thou, that hast A heart so tender o'er it, take it hence, And see it instantly consum'd with fire; Even thou, and none but thou. Take it up straight: Within this hour bring me word 't is done, (And by good testimony) or I'll seize thy life, With what thou else call'st thine. If thou refuse, And wilt encounter with my wrath, say so; The bastard brains with these my proper hands Shall I dash out. Go, take it to the fire; For thou sett'st on thy wife. ANT. I did not, sir: These lords, my noble fellows, if they please, Can clear me in 't. [credit: purpose, 1 LORD. Beseech your highness, give us better Better burn it now, You that have been so tenderly officious venture To save this brat's life? aand beseech-] Here again in the old text the elision of you is marked by an apostrophe; thus, beseech '. b So sure as this beard's grey,-] Unless we read according to a marginal annotation in Lord Ellesmere's copy of the first folio, -"thy beard," we must suppose the king to point to, or touch the beard of Antigonus; he himself, who twenty-three years before the play began was unbreeched, could hardly have a grey beard. That my ability may undergo, ANT. Of any point in 't shall not only be |