Dal. Alas, sir, How can you cast a mist upon your griefs? Hunt. Foh, Dalyell! Thou interrupt'st the part I bear in music Dal. I wish you could as easily forget Hunt. Pish! then I see Thou dost not know the flexible condition Of my [tough] nature! I can laugh, laugh heartily, When the gout cramps my joints; let but the stone Stop in my bladder, I am straight a-singing; Sets me a-capering straight; do [but] betray me, Dal. Deceiv'd? oh, noble Huntley, my few years Have learnt experience of too ripe an age, Hunt. Forgive me first A madness of ambition; by example I could grow tough in fury, and disclaim For my most foolish slighting thy deserts; And never child of mine more. Dal. Say not so, sir; It is not fault in her. Hunt. The world would prate How she was handsome; young I know she was, Tender, and sweet in her obedience, But, lost now; what a bankrupt am I made Dal. A love, a service, Reward thy charity! I have no more But prayers left me now. Dal. I'll lend you mirth, sir, If you will be in consort. Hunt. "Thank you truly : I must, yes, yes, I must;-here's yet some ease, A partner in affliction: look not angry. Dal. Good, noble sir! Hunt. Oh, hark! we may be quiet, [Music. The king, and all the others come; a meeting A Flourish.-Enter King JAMES, WARBECK leading KATHERINE, CRAWFORD and his Countess; JANE DOUGLAS, and other Ladies. HUNTLEY and DALYELL fall among them. K. Ja. Cousin of York, you and bride your princely Have liberally enjoy'd such soft delights, Nor has our bounty shorten'd expectation: Or amorous safety, we must rouse the ease To grace the joint endeavours of our servants. Would breed suspicion in our state and quality. Sit on our own throne; then our arms, laid open To gratitude, in sacred memory Of these large benefits, shall twine them close, Even to our thoughts and heart, without distinc tion. Then James and Richard, being in effect K. Ja. Seat you. Are the presenters ready? Craw. All are entering. Hunt. Dainty sport toward, Dalyell! sit, come sit, Sit and be quiet; here are kingly bug-words!" The sentence seems incomplete, for want of a relative; the meaning, however, is clear enough: in plain words, Necessity, the agent of Destiny, will bring her design to perfection; i. e. give me the kingdom, 2 Bug-words.] Generally speaking, terrific, alarming words; Enter at one door four Scotch Anticks, accordingly habited; at another, WARBECK's followers, disguised as four Wild Irish in trowses,' long-haired, and accordingly habited.-Music.-A Dance by the Masquers. K. Ja. To all a general thanks! Take your own shapes again; you shall receive Of merriments. Crawford, how far's our army Upon the march? Craw. At Hedon-hall, great king; Twelve thousand, well prepared. K. Ja. Crawford, to-night Post thither. We, in person, with the prince, Craw. I fly, my lord. [Exit. from the Celtic, bwg, a fiend, a frightful hobgoblin: here, however, they sarcastically allude to the pompous high-sounding language of the imaginary monarch. A similar expression occurs in the Tamer tamed: "These are, indeed, bug-words!" 3 Four Scotch Anticks accordingly habited.] i.e. characteristically. The trowses, or trosses, of the "wild Irish," mentioned in the next line, were drawers closely fitted to the shape; and which, together with the long shaggy hair of these people, are often made the subject of mirth by our old dramatists. 4 Take your own shapes.] i. e. resume your ordinary dress. |