to any formal capacity. There is no obftruction in this ;And the end;-What fhould that alphabetical pofition portend? if I could make that refemble fomething in me,Softly!-M, O, A, I. Sir To. O, ay! make up that:-he is now at a cold fcent. Fab. Sowter will cry upon't, for all this, though it be as rank as a fox.9 Mal. M,-Malvolio;-M,-why, that begins my name. Fab Did not I fay, he would work it out? the cur is excellent at faults. Mal. M,-But then there is no confonancy in the fequel; that fuffers under probation: 4 fhould follow, but O does. Fab. And O fhall end, I hope. 2 Sir To. Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry, O. Fab. Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might fee more detraction at your heels, than fortunes before you. Mal. M, O, A, I; This fimulation is not as the former: -and yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for every one of thefe letters are in my name. Soft; here follows profe. If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, fome atchieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Thy fates open their bands; let thy blood and Spirit embrace 7 i.e. any one in his fenfes, any one whofe capacity is not dis-arranged, or out of form, STEEVENS. Souter is here, I fuppofc, the name of a hound. Sowterly, however, is often employed as a term of abufe. A fowter was a cobler. STEEVENS. I believe the meaning is-This fellow will, notwithstanding, catch at and be duped by our device, though the cheat is so gross that any one else would find it out. Our author, as ufual, forgets to make his fimile anfwer on both fides; for it is not to be wondered at that a hound should cry of give his tongue, if the fcent be as rank as a fox. MALONE. 9 Sir Thomas Hanmer reads, "not as rank." The other editions, though it be as rank, &c. JOHNSON, 2 By O is here meant what we now call a bempen collar. JOHNSON, I believe he means 'only, it shall end in fighing, in d'fappointment. So, in Romeo and Juliet : "Why should you fall into fo deep an 09" STEVENS. embrace them. And, to inure thyfelf to what thou art like to be, caft thy humble flough, and appear fresh. Be opposite 3 with a kinfman, furly with fervants: let thy tongue tang arguments of fate; put thy felf into the trick of fingularity: She thus advijes thee, that fighs for thee. Remember who commended thy yellow flockings; and wish'd to fee thee ever cross-garter'd: I fay, remember. Go to; thou art made, if thou defireft to be fr; if not, let me fee thee a fterward ftill, the fellow of fervants, and not worthy to touch fortune's fingers. Farewel. She, that would alter fervices with thee, The fortunate-unhappy. Day-light and champian difcovers not more: this is open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off grofs acquaintance, I will be point-device, the very man. I do not now fool myfelf, to let imagi nation jade me; for every reafon excites to this, that my lady loves me. She did commend my yellow ftockings of late, fhe did praife my leg being crofs garter'd; and in this fhe 3 That is, be adverfe, boftile. An opposite in the language of our author's age, meant an adverfary. MALONE. Before the civil wars, yellow stockings were much worn. PERCY. So, Middleton and Rowley in their mafque entitled The World Tess'd at Tennis, no date, where the five different-coloured ftarches are introduced as striving for fuperiority, Yellow ftarch says to white: "Wear her own linen yellow, yet she shows "Her love to't, and makes him wear yellow bofe." The yeomen attending the Earl of Arundel, Lord Windfor, and Mr. Fulke Greville, who affifted at an entertainment performed before Queen Elizabeth, on the Monday and TueTday in Whitfun-week, 1581, were dreffèd in yellow worsted stockings. The book from which I gather this information was published by Henry Goldwell, gent, in the fame year. STEEVENS. 5 We should read-" The fortunate, and happy.-Day-light and cham pian difcovers not more: i. e. broad day and an open country cannot make things plainer. WARBURTON. The folio, which is the only ancient copy of this play, reads, the fortunate unhappy, and fo I have printed it. The fortunate-unhappy is the fubfcription of the letter. STEEVENS. 6 I will be point-de-vice, the very man.] This phrase is of French extraction-a points-devifez. Chaucer ufes it in the Romaunt of the Rofe: "Her nofe was wrought at point-device.” 4. e. with the utmost poffible exactness, STREVENS. The manifefts herself to my love, and, with a kind of injunction, drives me to these habits of her liking. I thank my stars, I am happy. I will be ftrange, ftout, in yellow ftockings, and cross-garter'd, even with the swiftnefs of putting on. Jove, and my ftars be praised!-Here is yet a poftfcript. Thou canst not choose but know who I am. If thou entertaineft my love, let it appear in thy fmiling; thy fmiles become thee well: therefore in my prefence fill fmile, dear my fweet, I pr'ythee.Jove, I thank thee.-I will fimile; I will do every thing that thou wilt have me. [Exit. Fab. I will not give my part of this sport for a penfion of thousands to be paid from the Sophy." Sir To. I could marry this wench for this device: Sir And. So could I too. Sir To. And afk no other dowry with her, but such another jest. Enter MARIA, Sir And. Nor I neither. Fab. Here comes my noble gull-catcher. Sir To. Wilt thou fet thy foot o'my neck? Sir And. Or o'mine either? Sir To. Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip, and become thy bond-flave? Sir And. I'faith, or I either? Sir To. Why, thou haft put him in fuch a dream, that, when the image of it leaves him, he must run mad. Mar. Nay, but fay true; does it work upon him? Mar. If you will then fee the fruits of the sport, mark his first approach before my lady: he will come to her in yellow stockings, 7 Alluding, as Dr. Farmer obferves, to Sir Robert Shirley, who was just returned in the character of embajador from the Sopby. He boafted of the great rewards he had received, and lived in London with the utmost fplendor. STEEVENS. 8 The following paffage might incline one to believe that tray-trip was the name of fome game at tables, or draughts: There is great danger of being taken fleepers at tray-trip, if the king fweep fuddenly." Cecil's Correspondence, Lett. X. p. 136. Ben Jonfon joins tray-trip with mumcbance. Aichemft, A&t V. fc. iv. TYRWHITT. The truth of Mr. Tyrwhitt's conjecture may be established by a reference to Machiavel's Dogge, a fatire, 4to. 1617. Rrro, 9 The old name of frong waters. JOHNSON. tockings, and 'tis a colour the abhors; and crofs garter'd, a fashion fhe detelts; 9 and he will fmile upon her, which will how be fo unfuitable to her difpofition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a nota. ble contempt: if you will fee it, follow me. Sir To. To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit! Sir And. I'll make one too. [Exeunt, ACT III. SCENE I. Olivia's Garden. Enter VIOLA, and Clown, with a taber. Vio. Save thee, friend, and thy mufick: Doft thou live by thy tabor? Clo. No, fir, I live by the church. Vio. Art thou a churchman? Clo. No fuch matter, fir; I do live by the church: for I do live at my houfe, and my house doth ftand by the church. Vio. So thou may'ft fay, the king lies by a beggar,3 if a beggar dwell near him: or, the church ftands by thy tabor, if thy tabor ftand by the church. Clo. You have faid, fir.-To fee this age!-A fentence is but a cheveril glove 4 to a good wit; How quickly the wrong fide may be turned outward! Vio. Sir Thomas Overbury, in his character of a footman without gards on his coat, prefents him as more upright than any croffe-garter'd gentlemanuther. FARMER. 2 The Clown, I fuppofe, wilfully mistakes Viola's meaning, and anfwers, as if he had been afked whether he lived by the sign of the taber, the ancient defignation of a music fhop. STEEVENS. It was likewife the fign of an eating houfe kept by Tarleton, the celebrated clown or fool of the theatre before our author's time; who is exhibited in a print prefixed to his fefts, quarto, 1611, with a tabur. Perhaps in imitation of him the fubfequent ftage-clowns ufually appeared with one. MALONE. 3 Lies here, as in many other places in old books, fignifies—dwells, Jojourns. MALONE. 4j. c. aglove made of Aid leather: chevreau, Ft. STIEVENS. Vio. Nay, that's certain; they, that dally nicely with words, may quickly make them wanton. Clo. I would therefore, my fifter had had no name, fir. Clo. Why, fir, her name's à word; and to dally with that word, might make my fifter wanton: But, indeed, words are very rafcals, fince bonds difgraced them. Vio. Thy reafon, man? Clo. Troth, fir, I can yield you none without words; and words are grown fo falfe, I am loth to prove reason with them. Vio. I warrant, thou art a merry fellow, and carest for nothing. Clo. Not fo, fir, I do care for fomething: but in my confcience, fir, I do not care for you; if that be to care for nothing, fir, I would it would make you invisible. Vio. Art thou not the lady Olivia's fool? Clo. No, indeed, fir; the lady Olivia has no folly: fhe will keep no fool, fir, till fhe be married; and fools are as like hufbands, as pilchards are to herrings, the hufband's the bigger: I am, indeed, not her fool, but her corrupter of words. Vio. I faw thee late at the count Orfino's. Cla. Foolery, fir, does walk about the orb, like the fun; it fhines every where. I would be forry, fir, but the fool Ifhould be as oft with your mafter, as with my mistress: I think, I faw your wisdom there. Vio. Nay, an thou pafs upon me, I'll no more with thee. Hold, there's expences for thee. Clo. Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, fend thee a beard! Vio. By my troth, I'll tell thee; I am almost fick for one; though I would not have it grow on my chin. Is thy lady within? fir? Clo. Would not a pair of thefe have bred, Clo. I would play lord Pandarus of Phrygia, fir, to bring a Creffida to this Troilus. Vio. I understand you, fir; 'tis well begg'd. Clo. The matter, I hope, is not great, fir, begging bat a beggar; Creffida was a beggar. My lady is within, fir; I will conftrue |