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Hath broke their hearts.

March, noble lord,

Into our city with thy banners spread:

By decimation and a tithed death—
If thy revenges hunger for that food

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Which nature loathes-take thou the destined tenth,

And by the hazard of the spotted die

Let die the spotted.

First Sen.

All have not offended;
For those that were, it is not square to take,
On those that are, revenges: crimes, like lands,
Are not inherited. Then, dear countryman,
Bring in thy ranks, but leave without thy rage:
Spare thy Athenian cradle and those kin
Which, in the bluster of thy wrath, must fall
With those that have offended: like a shepherd
Approach the fold and cull the infected forth,
But kill not all together.

Sec. Sen.

What thou wilt,

Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile

Than hew to 't with thy sword.

First Sen.

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Set but thy foot
Against our rampired gates, and they shall ope;
So thou wilt send thy gentle heart before,
To say thou 'lt enter friendly.

Sec. Sen.

Throw thy glove, Or any token of thine honor else,

That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress

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hath broke their hearts"); F. 1 reads "(Shame that they wanted, cunning in excesse)"; Ff. 2, 3, 4, "Shame (that they wanted cunning in excesse)"; Johnson conj. "Shame that they wanted, coming in excess."-I. G.

"cunning" is used in its old sense of skill or wisdom.-H. N. H.

And not as our confusion, all thy powers
Shall make their harbor in our town, till we
Have seal'd thy full desire.

Alcib.

Then there's my glove;
Descend, and open your uncharged ports:
Those enemies of Timon's, and mine own,
Whom you yourselves shall set out for reproof,
Fall, and no more: and, to atone your fears
With my more noble meaning, not a man
Shall pass his quarter, or offend the stream 60
Of regular justice in your city's bounds,
But shall be render'd to your public laws
At heaviest answer.

Both.

"Tis most nobly spoken.

Alcib. Descend, and keep your words.

[The Senators descend, and open the gates.
Enter Soldier.

Sold. My noble general, Timon is dead;
Entomb'd upon the very hem o' the sea;

And on his grave-stone this insculpture, which
With wax I brought away, whose soft impres-
sion

Interprets for my poor ignorance.

Alcib. [Reads]

'Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:

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62. "render'd to your"; the conj. of Chedworth, adopted by Dyce; F. 1 reads "remedied to your"; Ff. 2, 3, 4, "remedied by your"; Pope, "remedied by"; Johnson, "remedied to"; Malone, "remedy'd, to your"; Singer (ed. 2), "remitted to your."-I. G.

70-73. What is here given as one epitaph is really a combination of two, as may be seen by the passage from North's Plutarch quoted in our Introduction. The reader will of course observe the

Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked caitiff's left!

Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:

Pass by and curse thy fill; but pass and stay not here thy gait.'

These well express in thee thy latter spirits<

Though thou abhorr❜dst in us our human griefs,
Scorn'dst our brain's flow and those our droplets
which

From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit
Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for

aye

On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead
Is noble Timon: of whose memory

Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,
And I will use the olive with my sword,

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inconsistency between the two couplets, the first saying,-"Seek not my name"; the second,-"Here lie I, Timon." How the two got thus thrown together, it were vain to speculate: possibly the Poet was in doubt which to choose, and so copied them both, and then neglected to erase the one which he meant to reject. See, however, the Introduction. In the Palace of Pleasure the epitaph is given thus: "My wretched catife dayes expired now and past, My carren corps intered here is fast in grounde, In waltering waves of swelling sea by surges cast: My name if thou desire, the gods thee doe confounde."

-H. N. H.

The first two lines are a rendering of Timon's own epitaph; the last two were ascribed generally to the poet Callimachus. Lines 71-72 are contradictions. Both epitaphs, however, occur in close succession in the Plutarchian narrative, whence they were doubtless copied by the author without reflection.-C. H. H.

79. "On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead"; the reading of Ff.; Theobald reads "On thy low grave.-On: faults forgiven.— Dead"; Hanmer, "On thy low grave our faults—forgiv'n, since dead.” -I. G.

Make war breed peace, make peace stint war,

make each

Prescribe to other as each other's leech.

Let our drums strike.

[Exeunt.

GLOSSARY

By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A.

ABHOR HIMSELF, make himself abhorred; (Hanmer, "make himself abhorr'd"); I. i. 60. ACHES (dissyllabic); I. i. 257. ADVANCE, promote, raise to honor; I. ii. 181.

AFFECT, like, desire; I. ii. 231. ALLOW'D, trusted, invested by public authority; (Warburton, "Hallow'd"); V. i. 169. ALL TO YOU, "all good wishes to you"; I. ii. 247.

ALTERATION; "a. of honor," i. e. change to dishonor; IV. iii. 478.

AMPLE, amply; I. ii. 140.
APPERIL, peril; I. ii. 32.
ARGUMENT, contents; II. ii. 189.
-, subject, theme; III. iii. 20;
III. v. 23.
ARMS; "travers'd arms," (?)
folded
arms; according to
others, with arms reversed;
V. iv. 7.
ARTIFICIAL, belonging to art, ar-
tistic; "a. strife," the strife of
art to outdo nature; I. i. 37.
ATONE, set at peace, put in ac-
cord; V. iv. 58.

ATTEND, await; III. v. 102.
ATTENDS, awaits; I. ii. 164.

BANQUET, dessert; I. ii. 164.
BANS, curses; IV. i. 34.
BEAGLES, a small sort of dog;

used of servile followers; IV. iii. 175.

BEAR, bear off; I. i. 131. BECKS, nods; I. ii. 251. BEHAVE, govern; III. v. 22. BENEATH, lower, below; I. i. 44. BEST, that which can be most depended upon; (S. Walker conj. "last"); III. iii. 37. BLAINS, botches; IV. i. 28. BLOOD, temper; (Johnson conj. "mood"); IV. ii. 38.

BOUND, bank, boundary; I. i. 25. BRAIN'S FLOW, tears; (Hanmer,

"brine's flow"); V. iv. 76. BREATH, Voice; IV. iii. 249. BREATHE, utter; III. v. 32. BREATHED, trained; ("inured to constant practice; so trained as not to be wearied; To breathe a horse is to exercise him for the course"); I. i. 10. BRING, conduct; V. i. 126. BRUISE, crush, destroy; III. v. 4. BRUIT, rumor; V. i. 200. BY, according to; I. i. 171. BY MERCY, (?) by your leave; III. v. 55.

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CANDIED, congealed; IV. iii. 226. CAP, top, principal; IV. iii. 367. CARPER, censurer; IV. iii. 209. CAUDLE, serve as a caudle, refresh; IV. iii. 226.

CEASED, Stopped, silenced; II. i.

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