Leo. Go play, Mamillius; thour't an honest man.—

[Exit Mamillius.

Camillo, this great fir will yet stay longer.

Cam. You had much ado to make his anchor hold; When you caft out, it ftill came home.

Leo. Didft note it?

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Cam. He would not stay at your petitions; made His business more material.

Leo. Didft perceive it?

They're here with me already; whifpering, rounding, Sicilia is a-fo forth. 'Tis far gone,

When I fhall guft it laft.-How came't, Camillo,
That he did stay?

Cam. At the good queen's entreaty.

Leo. At the queen's, be't: good, fhould be pertinent; But fo it is, it is not. Was this taken

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By any understanding pate but thine?

For thy conceit is " foaking, will draw in

More than the common blocks :-Not noted is't,
But of the finer natures? by fome severals,

Of head--piece extraordinary?

lower meffes,

Perchance, are to this bufinefs purblind: say.

Cam. Business, my lord? I think, most understand Bohemia ftays here longer.

Leo. Ha!

Cam. Stays here longer.

P his anchor-the anchor thrown out to stop him.

9 it ftill came home.]—it had no effect.

made his bufinefs more material.]—pretending that the business, which call'd him away, was of the laft confequence.

• They're here with me already; whispering, rounding,]—The eyes of the people are upon me; whispering, buzzing. KING JOHN, A&II, Faulc. guft it]-perceive it.

Sc. 2.

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fo it is,]-being fo applied.
foaking]-of the abforbent fort.

lower meffes,]-the lower order of courtiers; perfons of less pene.

tration.

Leo.

Leo. Ay, but why?

Cam. To fatisfy your highness, and the entreaties

Of our most gracious mistress.

Leo. Satisfy

The entreaties of your mistress?-fatisfy?

Let that fuffice. I have trufted thee, Camillo,

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With all the nearest things to my heart, as well

My chamber-councils: wherein, priest like, thou
Haft cleans'd my bofom; I from thee departed
Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been
Deceiv'd in thy integrity, deceiv'd

In that which feems fo.

Cam. Be it forbid, my lord!

Leo. To bide upon't;-Thou art not honeft: or, If thou inclin'ft that way, thou art a coward;

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Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining

From course requir'd: Or elfe thou must be counted
A fervant, grafted in my serious trust,
And therein negligent: or elfe a fool;

That feeft a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn,
And tak'ft it all for jeft.

Cam. My gracious lord,

I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful;
In every one of thefe no man is free,
But that his negligence, his folly, fear,

Amongst the infinite doings of the world,
Sometime puts forth: In your affairs, my lord,
If ever I were wilful-negligent,

It was my folly; if industriously

I play'd the fool, it was my negligence,
Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful

y as well my chamber-councils :]-as well as with the fecrets of my cabinet.

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boxes]-hamstrings.

VOL. II.

To bide upon't;]-To endure it.

bOr elfe]-Either.

To do a thing, where I the iffue doubted,
Whereof the execution did cry out
Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear
Which oft infects the wifeft: thefe, my lord,
Are fuch allow'd infirmities, that honesty
Is never free of. But, 'befeech your grace,
Be plainer with me; let me know my trespass
By its own visage: if I then deny it,

'Tis none of mine.

Leo. Have not you feen, Camillo,

(But that's past doubt: you have; or your eye-glass Is thicker than a cuckold's horn) or heard,

(For, to a vifion fo apparent, rumour

Cannot be mute) or thought, (for cogitation

Refides not in that man that does not think it)
My wife is flippery? if thou wilt confefs,
(Or elfe be impudently negative,

To have nor eyes, nor ears, nor thought) then fay,
My wife's a hobby-horse; deserves a name
As rank as any flax-wench that puts to
Before her troth-plight: fay it, and justify it.
Cam. I would not be a ftander-by, to hear
My fovereign mistress clouded fo, without
My present vengeance taken: 'Shrew my heart,
You never spoke what did become you lefs
Than this; which to reiterate were fin

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As deep as that, though true.

Leo. Is whispering nothing?

Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting nofes?
Kiffing with infide lip? ftopping the career
Of laughter with a figh? (a note infallible
Of breaking honefty :) horfing foot on foot?

To do a thing, &c.]-Neceffary to be done. ¿ as that,]—which you fuspect.

meting-measuring. Skulking

Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift?
Hours, minutes? the noon, midnight? and all eyes
Blind with the pin and web, but theirs, theirs only,
That would unfeen be wicked? is this nothing?

Why then the world, and all that's in't, is nothing;
The covering fky is nothing; Bohemia nothing;
My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings,
If this be nothing.

Cam. Good my lord, be cur'd

Of this diseas'd opinion, and betimes;

For 'tis most dangerous.

Leo. Say, it be; 'tis true.

Cam. No, no, my lord.

Leo. It is; you lie, you lie :

I fay, thou lieft, Camillo, and I hate thee;
Pronounce thee a grofs lowt, a mindless slave;
Or else a hovering temporizer, that

Canft with thine eyes at once fee good and evil,
Inclining to them both: Were my wife's liver
Infected as her life, fhe would not live
The running of one glass.

Cam. Who does infect her?

Leo. Why he, that wears her like a medal, hanging About his neck, Bohemia: Who,—if I

Had fervants true about me; that bare eyes
To fee alike mine honour as their profits,

Their own particular thrifts,-they would do that
Which should undo more doing: Ay, and thou,
His cup-bearer:-whom I, from meaner form
Have bench'd, and rear'd to worship; who may'ft fee

f with the pin and web,]—an induration of the membrane, and spot in the eye. "He gives the web and the pin."

LEAR, A& III, Sc. 4. Edg.

Like a medal,]-the badge of his order.

Plainly as heaven fees earth, and earth sees heaven,
How I am gull'd,-thou might'ft be-spice a cup,
To give mine enemy a lasting wink;
Which draught to me were cordial.

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Cam. Sir, my Lord,

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I could do this; and that with no rafh potion
But with a ling'ring dram, that should not work
* Maliciously, like poifon : But I cannot
Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress,
So fovereignly being honourable.

I have lov'd thee

Leo. Make that thy queftion, and go rot!
Doft think, I am fo muddy, fo unfettled,
To appoint myself in this vexation? fully
The purity and whiteness of my sheets,
Which to preserve, is fleep; which being spotted,
Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wafps?

Give scandal to the blood o'the prince my fon,
Who, I do think is mine, and love as mine,
Without ripe moving to't? Would I do this?
Could man "fo blench?

Cam. I must believe you, fir;

I do; and will fetch off Bohemia for't:
Provided, that when he's remov'd, your highness
Will take again your queen, as yours at first;

h a lasting wink ;]—" To the perpetual wink for aye might put.” TEMPEST, A& II, Sc. 1.

Ant.

i rafh potion]-hafty in its operation. k Maliciously,]-Malignantly, with the effects openly hurtful; so as to detect the person that should administer it.

Make that thy question, and go rot !]-Difbelieve any longer my wife's infamy, and spite of all thy profeffions, I fhall with thee in thy grave. Leo. I have lov'd thee-but that time is past.

To appoint myself in this vexation ?]-As wantonly to involve myfelf in fuch a scene of trouble.

fo blench?]-deviate fo far from the rules of propriety.