Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. Visit by night your lady's chamber window Duke. This discipline shews thou hast been in love. To sort 10 some gentlemen well skill'd in musick: supper: Pro. We'll wait upon your grace till after And afterward determine our proceedings. Duke. Even now about it; I will pardon you. [Exeunt. 7 The old copy has consort, which, according to Bullokar and Phillips, signified "a set or company of musicians." If we print concert, as Malone would have it, the relative pronoun their has no correspondent word. It is true that Shakspeare frequently refers to words not expressed, but implied in the former part of a sentence. But the reference here is to consort, as appears by the subsequent words, " to their instruments." 8 A dump was the ancient term for a mournful elegy. 9 To inherit is sometimes used by Shakspeare for to obtain possession of, without any idea of acquiring by inheritance. Milton in Comus has disinherit Chaos, meaning only to dispossess it. 10 To SORT, to choose out. ACT IV. SCENE I. A Forest, near Mantua. Enter certain Out-laws. 1 Out. Fellows, stand fast; I see a passenger. 2 Out. If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em. Enter VALENTINE and SPEED. 3 Out. Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about you; If not, we'll make you sit, and rifle you. Speed. Sir, we are undone! these are the villains That all the travellers do fear so much. Val. My friends, 1 Out. That's not so, sir; we are your enemies. 2 Out. Peace; we'll hear him. 3. Out. Ay, by my beard, will we; for he is a proper1 man. Val. Then know, that I have little wealth to lose; A man I am, cross'd with adversity : My riches are these poor habiliments, Val. To Verona. 1 Out. Whence came you? Val. From Milan. 3 Out. Have you long sojourned there? Val. Some sixteen months; and longer might have staid, If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. 1 Out. What, were you banish'd thence? Val. I was. A proper man, was a comely, tall, or well proportioned man. Uomo di bel taglio, 2 Out. For what offence? Val. For that which now torments me to rehearse: I kill'd a man, whose death I much repent; But yet I slew him manfully in fight, Without false vantage, or base treachery. 1 Out. Why ne'er repent it, if it were done so; But were you banish'd for so small a fault? Val. I was, and held me glad of such a doom. 1 Out. Have you the tongues? Val. My youthful travel therein made me happy ; Or else I often had been miserable. 3 Out. By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar2, This fellow were a king for our wild faction. 1 Out. We'll have him; sirs, a word. It is an honourable kind of thievery. 2 Out. Tell us this: Have you any thing to take to? Val. Nothing but my fortune. 3 Out. Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen, Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth Thrust from the company of awful3 men : 2 Out. And I from Mantua, for a gentleman, Whom, in my mood, I stabbed unto the heart. 1 Out. And I, for such like petty crimes as these. But to the purpose,-(for we cite our faults, That they may hold excus'd our lawless lives,) And, partly, seeing you are beautify'd With goodly shape; and by your own report 2 Friar Tuck, one of the associates of Robin Hood. 3 Awful men, men full of awe and respect for the laws of society, and the duties of life. 4 Mood is anger or resentment. A linguist; and a man of such perfection, 2 Out. Indeed, because you are a banish'd man, Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you: Are you content to be our general? To make a virtue of necessity, And live, as we do, in this wilderness? 3Out. What say'st thou? wilt thou be of our consórt? Say ay, and be the captain of us all; We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee, 1 Out. But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest. 2 Out. Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offer'd. Val. I take your offer, and will live with you; Provided that you do no outrages On silly women, or poor passengers. 3 Out. No, we detest such vile base practices. Come, go with us, we'll bring thee to our crews, And shew thee all the treasure we have got; Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose. [Exeunt. SCENE II. Milan. Court of the Palace. Enter PROTeus. Pro. Already have I been false to Valentine, friend; 5 i. e. Condition, profession, occupation, v. Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2. When to her beauty I commend my vows, But here comes Thurio; now must we to her window, Enter THURIO, and Musicians. Thu. How now, Sir Proteus? are you crept be fore us? Pro. Ay, gentle Thurio; for, you know, that love Will creep in service where it cannot go. Thu. Ay, but, I hope, sir, that you love not here. Pro. Sir, but I do; or else I would be hence. Thu. Who? Silvia? Pro. Ay, Silvia, for your sake. Thu. I thank you for your own. Now, gentlemen, Let's tune, and to it lustily a while. Enter Host, at a distance; and JULIA in boy's clothes. Host. Now, my young guest! methinks you're allycholly; I pray you, why is it? Jul. Marry, mine host, because I cannot be merry. Host. Come, we'll have you merry: I'll bring you where you shall hear musick, and see the gentleman that you ask'd for. Jul. But shall I hear him speak? Host. Ay, that you shall. Jul. That will be musick. Jul. Is he among these? [Musick plays. Host. Ay: but peace, let's hear 'em. 1 Sudden quips, hasty, passionate reproaches. |