only drink: for, look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet will fully: in Barbary, fir, it cannot come to fo much. FRAN. What, fir? POINS. [Within.] Francis! P. HEN. Away, you rogue; Doft thou not hear them call? [Here they both call him; the drawer ftands amazed, not knowing which way to go. Enter Vintner. VINT. What! ftand'st thou still, and hear'st such a calling? look to the guests within. [Exit Francis.] would not have been afham'd to come in. Here's fixpence to pay for the nurfing the baftard." Again, in The Fair Maid of the Weft, 1631: "I'll furnish you with baftard, white or brown," &c. In the ancient metrical romance of The Squhr of low Degre, bl. 1. no date, is the following catalogue of wines: 66 "You fhall have Rumney and Malmefyne, "Both Ypocraffe and Vernage wyne: "Both Algrade and Refpice eke, "Pyment also and Garnarde: Wyne of Greke and Mufcadell, "Both Clare-Pyment and Rochell, "The rede your ftomach to defye, "And pottes of Ofey fet you by." STEEVENS. Maison Ruftique, tranflated by Markham, 1616, p. 635, fays, fuch wines are called mungrell, or baftard wines, which (betwixt the fweet and aftringent ones) have neither manifeft fweetness, nor manifeft aftriction, but indeed participate and contain in them both qualities." TOLLET. Barrett, however, in his Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionary, 1580, fays, that "baftarde is muscadell, fweet wine." STEEVENS. So alfo in Stowe's Annals, 867, "When an argofie came with Greek and Spanish wines, viz. mufcadel, malmfey, fack, and baftard," &c. MALONE. 449 My lord, old fir John, with half a dozen more, are at the door; Shall I let them in? P. HEN. Let them alone awhile, and then open the door. [Exit Vintner.] Poins! Re-enter POINS. POINS. Anon, anon, fir. P. HEN. Sirrah, Falstaff and the reft of the thieves are at the door; Shall we be merry? POINS. As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye; What cunning match have you made with this jeft of the drawer? come, what's the issue? P. HEN. I am now of all humours, that have fhow'd themselves humours, fince the old days of goodman Adam, to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight. [Re-enter Francis with wine.] What's o'clock, Francis? FRAN. Anon, anon, fir. P. HEN. That ever this fellow fhould have fewer words than a parrot, and yet the son of a woman!His industry is-up-ftairs, and down-ftairs; his eloquence, the parcel of a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind,' the Hot-fpur of the north; he that kills me fome fix or feven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and fays to his wife,-Fie upon this quiet life! I want work. O my I am not yet of Percy's mind,] The drawer's anfwer had interrupted the prince's train of difcourfe. He was proceeding thus: I am now of all humours that have showed themselves humours; I am not yet of Percy's mind; that is, I am willing to indulge myself in gaiety and frolick, and try all the varieties of human life. I am not yet of Percy's mind,-who thinks all the time loft that is not spent in bloodshed, forgets decency and civility, and has nothing but the barren talk of a brutal foldier. JOHNSON. fweet Harry, fays fhe, how many haft thou kill'd today? Give my roan horfe a drench, fays he; and anfwers, Some fourteen, an hour after; a trifle, a trifle. I pr'ythee, call in Falstaff; I'll play Percy, and that damn'd brawn fhall play dame Mortimer his wife. Rivo, fays the drunkard. Call in ribs, call in tallow. Enter FALSTAFF, GADSHILL, BARDOLPH, and PETO. POINS. Welcome, Jack. Where haft thou been? FAL. A plague of all cowards, I fay, and a vengeance too! marry, and amen!-Give me a cup of fack, boy.-Ere I lead this life long, I'll few nether-stocks, and mend them, and foot them too. A plague of all cowards!-Give me a cup of fack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant? [He drinks. P. HEN. Didft thou never fee Titan kifs a difh of butter? pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the Rivo,] This was perhaps the cant of the English taverns. JOHNSON. This conjecture Dr. Farmer has fupported by a quotation from Marston: "If thou art fad at others' fate, "Rivo, drink deep, give care the mate." I find the fame word ufed in the comedy of Blurt Mafter Confable, 1602: "Yet to endear ourselves to thy lean acquaintance, cry rivo ho! laugh and be fat," &c. Again, in Marfton's What you will, 1607: - that rubs his guts, claps his paunch, and cries rive,” &c. Again: "Rivo, here's good juice, fresh borage, boys." Again: Sing, fing, or ftay: we'll quaffe, or any thing: "Rivo, Saint Mark!" STEEVENS. 9 nether-ftocks,] Nether-ftacks are stockings. See King Lear, A& II. fc. iv. STEEVENS. fweet tale of the fon! if thou didst, then behold that compound. 2 Didft thou never fee Titan kifs a difb of butter? pitiful-hearted Titan! that melted at the fweet tale of the fon!] The ufual reading has hitherto been-the fweet tale of the fun. The prefent change will be accounted for in the course of the following annotations. STEEVENS. All that wants reftoring is a parenthefis, into which (pitifulhearted Titan!) fhould be put. Pitiful-hearted means only amorous, which was Titan's character: the pronoun that refers to butter. The heat of the fun is figuratively represented as a love-tale, the poet having before called him pitiful-hearted, or amorous. WARBURTON. The fame thought, as Dr. Farmer obferved to me, is found among Turberville's Epitaphs, p. 142: "It melts as butter doth against the funne." The reader, who inclines to Dr. Warburton's opinion, will pleafe to furnish himself with fome proof that pitiful-hearted was ever ufed to fignify amorous, before he pronounces this learned critick's emendation to be juft. In the oldest copy, the contefted part of the paffage appears thus: at the fweet tale of the fonnes. Our author might have written-pitiful-hearted Titan, who melted at the feet tale of his fon, i. e. of Phaeton, who, by a plaufible ftory, won on the eafy nature of his father fo far, as to obtain from him the guidance of his own chariot for a day. As grofs a mythological corruption, as the foregoing occurs in Locrine, 1595: "The arm-ftrong offspring of the doubted knight, "Stout Hercules" &c. Thus all the copies, ancient and modern. But I fhould not hefitate to read-doubled night, i. e. the night lengthened to twice its ufual proportion, while Jupiter poffeffed himself of Alcmena; a circumftance with which every school-boy is acquainted. STEEVENS. I have followed the reading of the original copy in 1598, rejecting only the double genitive, for it reads of the fon's. Sun, which is the reading of the folio, derives no authority from its being found in that copy; for the change was made arbitrarily in the quarto 1604, and adopted of courfe in that of 1608 and 1613, from the latter of which the folio was printed; in confequence of which the accumulated errors of the five preceding editions were incorporated in the folio copy of this play. FAL. You rogue, here's lime in this fack too: Mr. Theobald reads-pitiful-hearted butter, that melted at the fweet tale of the fun;-which is not fo abfurd as-pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the fweet tale of the fun,-but yet very exceptionable; for what is the meaning of butter melting at a tale? or what idea does the tale of the fun here convey? Dr. Warburton, who, with Mr. Theobald, reads-fun, has extracted fome fenfe from the paffage by placing the words-" pitiful-hearted Titan" in a parenthefis, and referring the word that to butter; but then, befides that his interpretation pitiful-hearted, which he says means amorous, is unauthorized and inadmiffible, the fame objection will lie to the sentence when thus regulated, that has already been made to the reading introduced by Mr. Theobald. The Prince undoubtedly, as Mr. Theobald obferves, by the words "Didft thou never see Titan kifs a dish of butter?" alludes to Falstaff's entering in a great heat, "his fat dripping with the violence of his motion, as butter does with the heat of the fun." Our author here, as in many other places, having started an idea, leaves it, and goes to another that has but a very flight connection with the former. Thus the idea of butter melted by Titan, or the Sun, fuggefts to him the idea of Titan's being melted or foftened by the tale of his fon, Phaeton: a tale, which undoubtedly Shakspeare had read in the third book of Golding's Tranflation of Ovid, having, in his description of Winter, in The Midsummer Night's Dream, imitated a paffage that is found in the fame page in which the hiftory of Phaeton is related. I should add that the explanation now given was fuggefted by the foregoing note.-I would, however, wish to read-thy fon. In the old copies, the, thee, and thy are frequently confounded. I am now [This conclufion of Mr. Malone's note is taken from his Appendix.] perfuaded that the original reading-for's, however ungrammatical, is right; for fuch was the phraseology of our poet's age. So again in this play: "This abfence of your father's draws a curtain." not-of your father. So, in The Winter's Tale: " Again, in K. John: the letters of Hermione's-." "With them a baftard of the king's deceas'd.” Again, in Antony and Cleopatra: Nay, but this dotage of our general's—," Again, in Cymbeline: 66 or could this carl, "A very drudge of nature's,-.” How little attention the reading of the folio, (" of the fun's,)" is entitled to, may appear from hence. In the quarto copy |