They're here with me already; whispering, round ing,' Sicilia is a so-forth: 'Tis far gone, When I shall gust it last.-How came't, Camillo, That he did stay? Cam. At the good queen's entreaty. Leon. At the queen's, be't: good, should be pertinent; But so it is, it is not. Was this taken stand Leon. Ay, but why? Ha? Stays here longer. Cam. To satisfy your highness, and the entreaties Of our most gracious mistress. Leon. Satisfy The entreaties of your mistress?——satisfy? In that which seems so. 7-whispering, rounding,] To round in the ear is to whisper, or to tell secretly. ·gust it—] i. e. taste it. STEEVENS. - lower messes,] lower messes is perhaps used as an expression to signify the lowest degree about the court. Cam. Be it forbid, my lord! Leon. To bide upon't;-Thou art not honest: or, If thou inclin'st that way, thou art a coward; Which hoxes honesty behind,' restraining From course requir'd: Or else thou must be counted A servant, grafted in my serious trust, And therein negligent; or else a fool, That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn, And tak'st it all for jest. I Cam. My gracious lord, But that his negligence, his folly, fear, It was my folly; if industriously 2 I play'd the fool, it was my negligence, "Tis none of mine. Leon. Have not you seen, Camillo, (But that's past doubt: you have; or your eye-glass 1 hoxes honesty behind,] To hox is to ham-string. The proper word is, to hough, i. e. to cut the hough, or ham-string. 2 Whereof the execution did cry out Against the non-performance,] This is one of the expressions by which Shakspeare too frequently clouds his meaning. This sounding phrase means, I think, no more than a thing necessary to be done. JOHNSON. Is thicker than a cuckold's horn;) or heard, To have nor eyes, nor ears, nor thought,) then say, As rank as any flax-wench, that puts to Leon. With the pin and web,3 but theirs, theirs only, If this be nothing. Cam. Of this diseas'd opinion, and betimes; Good my lord, be cur'd Say, it be; 'tis true. For 'tis most dangerous. Leon. S -the pin and web,] Disorders in the eye. Cam. No, no, my lord. Leon. Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, The running of one glass. Cam. Who does infect her? Leon. Why he, that wears her like her medal," hanging About his neck, Bohemia: Who-if I Had servants true about me: that bare eyes Have bench'd, and rear'd to worship; who may'st see Plainly, as heaven sees earth, and earth sees heaven, How I am galled,-might'st bespice a cup, To give mine enemy a lasting wink; Which draught to me were cordial. Cam. Sir, my lord, I could do this; and that with no rash potion, I have lov'd thee, Leon. Make't thy question, and go rot!" Dost think, I am so muddy, so unsettled, To appoint myself in this vexation? sully like her medal,] i. e. her portrait. 5 Make't thy question, and go rot! &c.] This refers to what Camillo has just said, relative to the Queen's chastity. The purity and whiteness of my sheets, Cam. I must believe you, sir; I do; and will fetch off Bohemia for't: Provided, that when he's remov'd, your highness Even for your son's sake; and, thereby, for sealing Leon. Thou dost advise me, Even so as I mine own course have set down: I'll give no blemish to her honour, none. Go then; and with a countenance as clear If from me he have wholsome beverage, Leon. This is all: Do't, and thou hast the one half of my heart; Do't not, thou split'st thine own. Cam. me. Cam. O miserable lady!-But, for me, [Exit. • Could man so blench?] To blench is to start off, to shrink. |