I'll lend you fomething: my having is not much;
I'll make divifion of my prefent with you:
Hold, there is half my coffer.

ANT.

Will you deny me now?

Is't poffible, that my deferts to you

Can lack perfuafion? Do not tempt my misery, Left that it make me fo unfound a man,

As to upbraid you with those kindnesses

That I have done for you.

V10.
I know of none;
Nor know I you by voice, or any feature:
I hate ingratitude more in a man,

Than lying, vainnefs, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.

ANT.

O heavens themselves!

2 OFF. Come, fir, I pray you, go.

ANT. Let me fpeak a little. This youth that fee here,

you

I fnatch'd one half out of the jaws of death;
Reliev'd him with fuch fanctity of love,-
And to his image, which, methought, did promise
Moft venerable worth, did I devotion.

I OFF. What's that to us? The time goes by;

away.

ANT. But, O, how vile an idol proves this god!Thou haft, Sebastian, done good feature fhame.In nature there's no blemish, but the mind; None can be call'd deform'd, but the unkind: Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous-evil Are empty trunks, o'erflourish'd by the devil."

2 d'erflourish'd by the devil.] In the time of Shakspeare, trunks, which are now depofited in lumber-rooms, or other obfcure places, were part of the furniture of apartments in which com

I OFF. The man grows mad; away with him. Come, come, fir.

ANT. Lead me on. [Exeunt Officers,with ANTONIO. V10. Methinks, his words do from fuch paffion fly, That he believes himfelf; fo do not I.3

Prove true, imagination, O, prove true,

That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you!

SIR TO. Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian; we'll whisper o'er a couplet or two of most fage faws.

V10. He nam'd Sebaftian; I my brother know Yet living in my glass; even fuch, and so, In favour was my brother; and he went Still in this fafhion, colour, ornament, For him I imitate: O, if it prove,

Tempefts are kind, and falt waves fresh in love!

[Exit.

SIR TO. A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward than a hare: his difhonefty appears, in leaving his friend here in neceffity, and denying him; and for his cowardship, ask Fabian.

pany was received. I have feen more than one of thefe, as old as the time of our poet. They were richly ornamented on the tops and fides with fcroll-work, emblematical devices, &c. and were elevated on feet. Shakspeare has the fame expreffion in Measure for Measure:

your title to him "Doth flourish the deceit.

Again, in his 60th Sonnet:

.." STEEVENS.

"Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth." MALONE. 3 -fo do not I.] This, I believe, means, I do not yet believe myself, when, from this accident, I gather hope of my brother's life. JOHNSON.

I my brother know

Yet living in my glafs;] I fuppofe Viola means-As often as 1 behold myself in my glass, I think I fee my brother alive; i. e. I acknowledge that his resemblance furvives in the reflection of my own figure. STEEVENS.

FAB. A coward, a moft devout coward, religious in it.

SIR AND. 'Slid, I'll after him again, and beat him. SIR TO. Do, cuff him foundly, but never draw thy fword.

SIR AND. An I do not,

FAB. Come, let's fee the event.

[Exit.

SIR TO. I dare lay any money, 'twill be nothing

yet.

ACT IV.

SCENE I.

[Exeunt.

The Street before Qlivia's boufe.

Enter SEBASTIAN and Clown.

CLO. Will you make me believe, that I am not fent for you?

SEB. Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow; Let me be clear of thee.

CLO. Well held out, i'faith! No, I do not know you; nor I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come speak with her; nor your name is not mafter Cefario; nor this is not my nofe neither.— Nothing, that is fo, is fo.

SEB. I pr'ythee, vent thy folly fomewhere else; Thou know'st not me.

CLO. Vent my folly! He has heard that word of fome great man, and now applies it to a fool.' Vent

5 Vent my folly! He has heard that word of fome great man, &c.] This affected word feems to have been in ufe in Shakspeare's time. In Melvil's Memoirs, p. 198, we have " My Lord Lindsay vented himself that he was one of the number," &c. REED.

my folly! I am afraid this great lubber the world will prove a cockney.-I pr'ythee now, ungird thy ftrangeness, and tell me what I fhall vent to my lady; Shall I vent to her, that thou art coming?

8

SEB. I pr'ythee, foolish Greek, depart from me; There's money for thee; if you tarry longer, I shall give worse payment.

CLO. By my troth, thou haft an open hand:These wife men, that give fools money, get themfelves a good report after fourteen years' purchase."

I am afraid this great lubber-] That is, affectation and foppery will overfpread the world. JOHNSON.

7 prove a cockney.] So, in A Knight's Conjuring, by Decker: 66 'tis not their fault, but our mothers', our cockering mothers, who for their labour make us to be called Cockneys," &c. STEEVENS.

I pr'ythee, foolish Greek,] Greek, was as much as to say bawd or pander. He understood the Clown to be acting in that office. A bawdy-house was called Corinth, and the frequenters of it Corinthians, which words occur frequently in Shakspeare, efpecially in Timon of Athens, and Henry IV. Yet the Oxford editor alters it to Geck. WARBURTON.

Can our author have alluded to St. Paul's epiftle to the Romans, c. i. v. 23?

to the Greeks foolishness." STEEVENS.

9get themselves a good report after fourteen years' purchase.] This feems to carry a piece of fatire upon monopolies, the crying grievance of that time. The grants generally were for fourteen years; and the petitions being referred to a committee, it was fufpected that money gained favourable reports from thence.

WARBURTON.

Perhaps fourteen years' purchafe was, in Shakspeare's time, the highest price for land. Lord Bacon's Effay on Ujury mentions fixteen years purchafe. "I will not give more than according to fifteen years purchafe, faid a dying ufurer to a clergyman, who advifed him to ftudy for a purchase of the kingdom of heaven."

TOLLET.

Mr. Heath thinks the meaning is, "purchase a good report [or character] at a very extravagant price." MALONE.

Dr. Warburton's conjecture that there is here a reference to

Enter SIR TOBY, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN.

SIR AND. Now, fir, have I met you again? there's for you. [Striking SEBASTIAN. SEB. Why, there's for thee, and there, and there: Are all the people mad? [Beating SIR ANDREW. SIR TO. Hold, fir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house.

CLO. This will I tell my lady ftraight: I would not be in some of your coats for two-pence.

Exit Clown.

SIR TO. Come on, fir; hold. [Holding SEBASTIAN. SIR AND. Nay, let him alone, I'll go another way to work with him; I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria: though I ftruck him first, yet it's no matter for that.

SEB. Let go thy hand.

SIR TO. Come, fir, I will not let you go. Come, my young foldier, put up your iron: you are well flefh'd; come on.

SEB. I will be free from thee. What wouldft

thou now?

If thou dar'ft tempt me further, draw thy fword.

[draws. SIR TO. What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce or two of this malapert blood from you. [draws.

monopolies, is, I believe, unfounded. Mr. Tollet and Mr. Heath are probably right. Sir Jofiah Child, in his Difcourfe on Trade, fays, "- certainly anno 1621, the current price of lands in England was twelve years purchase; and fo I have been affured by many ancient men whom I have questioned particularly as to this matter; and I find it fo by purchases made about that time by my own, relations and acquaintance." Sir Thomas Culpepper, fenior, who wrote in 1621, affirms, "that land was then at twelve years purchafe." REED,