Wherein have I so deserved of you, ༣ Lucio. Faith, my Lord, I spoke it but accord-ing to the trick: If you will hang me for it, you may, but I had rather it would please you, I might be whip'd. Duke. Whip'd first, Sir, and hang'd after. Lucio. I beseech your Highness, do not marry me to a whore! Your Highness said even now, I made you a Duke; good my Lord, do not recompence me, in making me a cuckold. Duke. Upon mine honour, thou shalt marry her. Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Take him to prison: And see our pleasure herein executed. Lucio. Marrying a punk, my Lord, is pressing to death, whipping, and hanging. Duke. Sland'ring a Prince deserves it. She, Claudio, that you wrong'd, look you re Joy to you, Mariana! love her, Angelo; I have confess'd her, Thanks, good friend and I know her virtue. Escalus, for thy much good ness: There's more behind, that is more gratulate. The offence pardons itself. Dear Isabel, What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine: So, bring us to our palace; where we'll show What's yet behind, that's meet you all should know. [Exeunt. A SELECTION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOTES EXTRACTED FROM THE BEST COMMENTATORS TO THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. VOLUME II. ** TWELFTH -NIGHT.] There is great reason to believe, that the serious part of this Comedy is founded on some old translation of the seventh history in the fourth volume of Belleforest's Histoires Tragiques. Belleforest took the story, as usual, from Bandello. The comic scenes appear to have been entirely the production of Shakspeare. It is not impossible, however, that the circum stances of the Duke sending his Page to plead his cause with the Lady, and of the Lady's falling in love with the Page, etc. might be borrowed from the Fifth Eglog of Barnaby Googe, published with his other original Poems in 1563: A worthy Knyght dyd love her longe ,,The panges of love, that happen styl To hym declare he muste. |