Offi. One Angelo, a goldsmith; Do you know | Had hoisted sail, and put to sea to-day: him? Adr. I know the man: What is the sum be Owes ? Offi. Two hundred ducats. Adr. Say, how grows it doe? Offi. Due for a chain your husband had of him. Adr. He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not. Cour. When, as your husband, ali in rage, to-day Came to my house, and took away my ting, (The ring I saw upon his finger now,) Straight after, did I meet him with a chain. Adr. It may be so, but I did never see it :Come, jailer, bring me where the goldsmith is, 1 long to know the truth hereof at large. Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, with his rapier drawn, and DROMIO of Syracuse. Luc. God, for thy mercy! they are loose again. Adr. And come with naked swords; let's call more help, To have them bound again. [Exeunt OFFICER. ADR. and Luc. Ant. E. I see these witches are afraid of swords. Dro. S. She, that would be your wife, now ran from you. Ant. S. Come to the Centaur ; fetch our stuff • from thence : I long that we were safe and sound aboard. Dro. S. Faith, stay here this night, they will surely do us no harm; you saw, they speak us fair, give us gold methinks they are such a gentle nation, that but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, I could find in my heart to stay here still, and turn witch. Ant. S. I will not stay to-night for all the town; you; But I protest, he had the chain of me, Mer. How is the man esteem'd here in the city? Ang. Of very reverend reputation, Sir, Of credit infinite, highly belov'd, Second to none that lives here in the city; His word might bear my wealth at any time. Mer. Speak softly: yonder, as I think, be walks. Enter ANTIPHOLUS and DROMIO of Syracuse. Ang. 'Tis so; and that self chain about his neck, Which he forswore, most monstrously to have. Good Sir, draw near to me, I'll speak to him. Signior Antipholus, I wonder much That you would put me to this shame and trouble; And not without some scandal to yourself, • Baggage. This chain you had of me, can you deny it! Ant. S. I think, I had; I never did deny it Mer. Yes, that you did, Sir; and forswore # too. Ant. S. Who heard me to deny it, or farswear it? Mer. These ears of mine, thou knowest, did hear thee: Fie on thee, wretch! 'tis pity that thou liv'st Ant. S. Thou art a villain, to impeach me thus: I'll prove mine honour, and mine bonesty Against thee presently, if thou dar'st stand. Mer. I dare, and do defy thee for a villain. [They draw. Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, COURTEZAN, and others. Adr. Hold, hurt him not, for God's sake; be is mad :Some get within him, take his sword away: Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house. Dro. S. Run, master, run; for God's sake, take a house. + This is some priory ;-In, or we are spoil'd. [Exeunt ANTIPH. and DROXIO to the Priory. Adr. Why, so I did. Abb. Ay, but not rough enough. Adr. As roughly, as my modesty would let me. Adr. And in assemblies too. In bed, he slept not for my urging it; The venom clamours of a jealous woman ing: And thereof comes it that is bead is light. Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings: Unquiet meals make ill digestions, Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness? A most outrageous fit of madness took him; That desperately he hurried through the street (With him his bondman, all as mad as he,) Thou say'st, his sports were hinder'd by thy Doing displeasure to the citizens brawls: Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue, Why hear you these rebukes, and answer not? By rushing in their houses, bearing thence And, with his mad attendant and himself, Met us again, and, madly bent on us, Abb. No, not a creature enters in my house. Adr. Then, let your servants bring my band forth. Abb. Neither; he took this place for sanc-Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy com tuary, And it shall privilege him from your hands, Adr. I will attend my husband, be his nurse, To make of him a formal man again: • Therefore depart, and leave him here with me. Adr. I will not hence, and leave my husband here ; And ill it doth beseem your holiness, Abb. Be quiet, and depart, thou shalt not Adr. Come, go; I will fall prostrate at his feet, And never rise until my tears and prayers Mer. By this, I think, the dial points at five: Mer. To see a reverend Syracusan merchant, Who put unluckily into this bay Against the laws and statutes of this town, Ang. See, where they come; we will behold his death. Luc. Kneel to the duke, before he pass the abbey. Enter DUKE attended; RGEON bare-headed; Duke. She is a virtuous and a reverend lady; It cannot be, that she hath done thee wrong. Adr. May it please your grace, Antipholus, my husband, Whom I made loid of me and all I had, yourself! My master and his man are both broke loose, Beaten the maids a-row, and bound the doctor, Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire; And ever as it blazed they threw on him Adr. Peace, fool, thy master and his man are here; And that is false thou dost report to us. Serv. Mistress, upon my life, I tell you true; I have not breath'd almost, since I did see it. He cries for you, and vows if he can take you, To scorch your face, and to disfigure you: [Cry within. Hark, bark, I hear him, mistress; fly, be gone. Duke. Come, stand by me, fear nothing: Guard with halberts. 1.e. To make measures. 4 know. tl. e. Successively, one after another. L. e. Cuts his hair close. That hath abused and dishonour'd me, That she this day hath shameless thrown on me. Duke. Discover how, and thou shalt find me just. Ant. E. This day, great duke, she shut the doors upon me, While she with harlots feasted in my honse. Duke. A grievous fault: Say, woman, didst thou so? Adr. No, my good lord ;-myself, he, and my sister, To-day did dine together: So befal my soul, Luc. Ne'er may I look on day, nor sleep on night, But she tells to your highness simple truth! sworn. In this the madman justly chargeth them. Ant. E. My liege, I ain advised what I say ; Could witness it, for he was with me then; 1 wem to seek him in the street I met him; And in his company, that gentleman, There did this perjur'd goldsmith swear me down, That I this day of him receiv'd the chain. Ant. E. 1 never came within these abbey walls. Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me: Duke. Why, what an intricate impeach is this! I think you all have drank of Circe's cup. Cour. He did; and from my finger snatch'd that ring. Ant. E. 'Tis true, my leige, this ring I bad of ber. Duke. Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey Which, God he knows, I saw not: for the But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords: which, He did arrest me with an officer. I did obey; and sent my peasant home To go in person with me to my house. By the way we met, My wife, her sister, and a rabble more Of vile confederates; along with them They brought one Pinch; a hungry lean-fac'd villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller; Till gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, For these deep shames and great indignities. That he dined not at home, but was lock'd out. Duke. But had he such a chain of thee, or no? Ang. He had, my lord: and when he ran in here, These people saw the chain about his neck. Heard you confess you had the chain of him, Harlot was a term of reproach applied to cheats among men as well as to wantons among women. Now am I Dromio, and his man, unbound. Æge. I am sure you both of you remember tongue, In seven short years, that here my only son Ant. E. I never say my father in my life. Ege. But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy, Thou know'st, we parted: but perhaps, my sen, Thou sham'st to acknowledge me in misery, Ant. E. The duke, and all that know me in the city, Can witness with me that it is not so; Duke. I tell thee, Syracusan, twenty years Abb. Most mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd. [All gather to see him. Adr. I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me. Duke. One of these men is Genius to the other; And so of these: Which is the natural man, away. Dro. E. 1, Sir, am Dromio; pray let me stay. Ant. S. Egeon, art thou not? or else his ghost? Dro. 8. O my old master! who bath bound him here? Abb. Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds, And gain a husband by his liberty :- Ege. If I dream not, thou art Æmilla; Abb. By men of Epidamnum, he, and I, These two Antipholuses, these two so like, Ant. S. No, Sir, not I; I came from Syracuse. Duke. Stay, stand apart; I know not which is which. Ant. E. I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord. Dro. E. And I with him. Ant. E. Brought to this town with that most famous warrior Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle. Adr. Which of you two did dine with me to-day ? Ant. S. 1, gentle mistress. Adr. And are you not my husband? Ant. S. And so do I, yet did she call me so; Ang. That is the chain, Sir, which you had of me. Ant. S. I think it be, Sir, I deny it not. Ant. E. And you, Sir, for this chain arrested me. Ang. I think I did, Sir; I deny it not. By Dromio; but I think he brought it not. Adr. I sent you money, Sir, to be your bail, Dro. E. No, none by me. Ant. S. This purse of ducats I receiv'd from you, And Dromio my man did bring them me: Duke. It shall not need, thy father hath his life. Cour. Sir, I must have that diamond from you. Ant. E. There, take it ; and much thanks for my good cheer, Abb. Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains To go with us into the abbey here, And hear at large discoursed all our for tunes: And all that are assembled in this place, The duke, my husband, and my children both, Duke. With all my heart, I'll gossip at this Dromio: Come, go with us: we'll look to that anon: [Exeunt ANTIPHOLUS S. and E. ADR. Dro. S. There is a fat friend at your master's house, That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner; She now shall be my sister, not my wife. Dro. E. Methinks, you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you, I am a sweet-fac'd youth. it ? Dro. S. We will draw cuts for the senior: till Dro. E. Nay, then thus: The morning story is what Egeon tells the Duke in And now let's go hand in hand, not one be the first scene of this play. fore another. [Exeunt. AS YOU LIKE IT. LITERARY AND HISTORICAL NOTICE. MALONE ascertains the date of this play by the following singular coincidence of an allusion made by Rosaltad with a circumstance recorded by Stowe. "I will weep for nothing, (says Rosalind) like Diana in the Founter." In 1598, at the east side of the cross in Cheapside, was set up (says the latter in his survey of London.) “a curious wrought tabernacle of grey marble, and, in the same, an alabaster image of Diana, and water, comveyed from the Thames, prilling from her naked breast." A trifling novel or pastoral romance, by Dr. Thom Lodge, called Euphues's Golden Legacy, is the foundation of As you Like it. In addition to the fable, which a pretty exactly followed, the outlines of certain principal personages may be traced in the novel; but che characters of Jaques, Touchstone, and Audrey, originated entirely with the poet. Few plays contain so much instructive sentiment, poignant satire, luxuriant fancy, and amusing incident, as this: it is altogether "wild and pleasing." The philosophic reader will be no less diverted by the sententions shrewdness of Touchstone, than instructed by the elegant and amiable lessons of the moralizing Jaques.---Shakspeare is sun to have played the part of Adam in As you like it. The SCENE lies, first, near Oliver's House; afterwards, partly in the Usurper's Court, and partly in the Forest of Arden. ACT I. SCENE I.-An Orchard, near OLIVER'S Enter ORLANDO and ADAM. Orl. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me: By will, but a poor thousand crowns: and, as thou say'st, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me here at home unkept: For call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses are bred better; for, besides that they are fair with their feeding, they are taught their mauage, and to that end riders dearly hired: but 1, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me his countenance seems to take from me: he lets me feed with bis hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my geutility with my education. That is it, Adam, that grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it. Enter OLIVER. Adam. Yonder comes my master, your brother. Orl. Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt bear how he will shake me up. Oli. Now, Sir! what make you here ? Orl. Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing. Oli. What mar you then, Sir? Orl. Marry, Sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor unworthy brother of your's, with idleness. Öli. Marry, Sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile. • What do you here. |