Behold this maid: all corners elfe o' the earth It works:-Come on. PRO. Thou haft done well, fine Ariel!-Follow me. [To FERD. and MIR. Hark, what thou else shalt do me. [To ARIEL. MIRA. My father's of a better nature, fir, Be of comfort; Than he appears by fpeech; this is unwonted, PRO. Thou fhalt be as free As mountain winds: but then exactly do ARI. To the fyllable. PRO. Come, follow: speak not for him. [Exeunt. Another part of the island. Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others. GON. 'Beseech you, fir, be merry: you have cause (So have we all) of joy; for our escape 4 Might I but through my prifon once a day Behold this maid: This thought feems borrowed from The Knight's Tale of Chaucer; v. 1230: "For elles had I dwelt with Thefeus "Yfetered in his prifon evermo. "Than had I ben in bliffe, and not in wo. "Only the fight of hire, whom that I ferve, "Though that I never hire grace may deserve, "Wold have fufficed right ynough for me." STEEVENS, Is much beyond our lofs: Our hint of woe' Can fpeak like us: then wifely, good fir, weigh ALON. Pr'ythee, peace. SEB. He receives comfort like cold porridge. ANT. The vifitor' will not give him o'er fo. SEB. Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. GON. Sir, SEB. One-Tell. GON. When every grief is entertain'd, that's offer'd, Comes to the entertainer SEB. A dollar. 5- Our hint of woe-] Hint is that which recalls to the meThe cause that fills our minds with grief is common. Dr. Warburton reads--ftint of woe. JOHNSON. mory. Hint feems to mean circumftance. "A danger from which they had escaped (fays Mr. M. Mason) might properly be called a hint of e." STEEVENS. 6 The matters of fome merchant, &c.] Thus the old copy. If the paffage be not corrupt (as I fufpect it is) we must fuppofe that by mafters our author means the owners of a merchant's fhip, or the officers to whom the navigation of it had been trusted. STEEVENS. 1 The vifitor] Why Dr. Warburton fhould change vifitor to 'vifer, for adviser, I cannot discover. Gonzalo gives not only advice but comfort, and is therefore properly called The Vifitor, like others who visit the fick or diftreffed to give them confolation. In fome of the Proteftant churches there is a kind of officers termed Confolators for the fick. JOHNSON. H GON. Dolour comes to him, indeed; you have spoken truer than you purpos'd. SEB. You have taken it wifelier than I meant you should. GON. Therefore, my lord,— ANT. Fie, what a fpendthrift is he of his tongue! GON. Well, I have done: But yet SEB. He will be talking. ANT. Which of them, he, or Adrian, for a good wager, firft begins to crow? SEB. The old cock. ANT. The Cockrel. SEB. Done: The wager? ANT. A laughter. SEB. A match. ADR. Though this island seem to be defert,- ANT. So, you've pay'd.9 ADR. Uninhabitable, and almoft inacceffible,- ADR. Yet ANT. He could not mifs it. 8 Gon. Dolour comes to him, indeed;] The fame quibble occurs in The Tragedy of Hoffman, 1637: 9 "And his reward be thirteen hundred dollars, "For he hath driven dolour from our heart." STEEVENS. you've pay'd.] Old Copy-yau'r paid. Corrected by Mr. Steevens. To pay fometimes fignified-to beat, but I have never met with it in a metaphorical fenfe; otherwife I fhould have thought the reading of the folio right: you are beaten; you have left. MALONE. ADR. It muft needs be of fubtle, tender, and delicate temperance. 2 ANT. Temperance was a delicate wench. 3 SEB. Ay, and a fubtle; as he most learnedly deliver❜d. ADR. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. SEB. As if it had lungs, and rotten ones. ANT. Or, as 'twere perfum'd by a fen. GON. Here is every thing advantageous to life. ANT. True; fave means to live. SEB. Of that there's none, or little. 4 GON. How lush and lufty the grass looks? how green? ANT. The ground, indeed, is tawny. 2 and delicate temperance.] Temperance here means temperaSTEEVENS. ture. 3 Temperance was a delicate wench.] In the puritanical times it was usual to christen children from the titles of religious and moral virtues. So Taylor, the water-poet, in his description of a ftrumpet: 66 "To be call'd Prudence, Temperance, Faith, or Grace.” STEEVENS. 4 How lush, &c.] Lush, i. e. of a dark full colour, the oppofite to pale and faint. SIR T. HANMER. The words, how green? which immediately follow, might have intimated to Sir T. Hanmer, that lub here, fignifies rank, and not a dark full colour. In Arthur Golding's tranflation of Julius Solinus, printed 1587, a paffage occurs, in which the word is explained.Shrubbes lube and almost like a gryftle." So, in A Midsummer Night's Dream: "Quite over-canopied with lufbious woodbine." HENLEY. The word lub has not yet been rightly interpreted. It appears from the following paffage in Golding's tranflation of Ovid, 1587, to have fignified juicy, fucculent : "What? feeft thou not, how that the year, as reprefenting plaine "The age of man, departes himself in quarters foure: first, baine SEB. With an eye of green in't.' ANT. He miffes not much. SEB. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally. GON. But the rarity of it is (which is indeed almost beyond credit,) SEB. As many vouch'd rarities are. GON. That our garments, being, as they were, drench'd in the fea, hold notwithstanding their freshness, and gloffes; being rather new dy'd, than ftain'd with falt water. ANT. If but one of his pockets could fpeak, would it not fay, he lies? SEB. Ay, or very falfely pocket up his report. GON. Methinks, our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Africk, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the king of Tunis. "And tender in the fpring it is, even like a fucking babe, "And cheers the husbandman with hope." Ovid's lines (Met. XV.) are thefe: Quid? non in fpecies fuccedere quattuor annum Spenfer in his Shepheard's Calender, (Feb.) applies the epithet lafty to green: "With leaves engrain'd in luftie green." MALONE. With an eye of green in't.] An eye is a small shade of colour : "Red, with an eye of blue, makes a purple." Boyle. Again, in Fuller's Church Hiftory, P. 237, xvii Cent. Book XI: "-fome cole-black (all eye of purple being put out therein)." Again, in Sandys's Travels, lib. i': " -cloth of filver tissued with an eye of green-." STEEVENS. - Claribel-] Shakspeare might have found this name in the 1 |