Of disobedience, or unduteous guile; 22 Since therein she doth evitate and shun A thousand irreligious cursed hours, Which forced marriage would have brought upon her. Ford. Stand not amaz'd: here is no remedy. In love, the heavens themselves do guide the state: Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. Fal. I am glad, though you have ta'en a special stand to strike at me, that your arrow hath glanc’d. Page. Well, what remedy? Fenton, heaven give thee joy! What cannot be eschew'd, must be embrac'd. Fal. When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chas'd.23 Mrs. Page. Well, I will muse no further: ter Fenton, Heaven give you many, many merry days! Ford. Let it be so:— Sir John, mas To master Brook you yet shall hold your word; For he to-night shall lie with mistress Ford. [Exeunt. 22 Avoid. 23 Here, too, we commonly have a line added from the quartos. "Eva. I will dance and eat plums at your wedding." It is questionable whether these passages, evidently either not written by the Poet, or else thrown out in the revisal, ought to have a place even in the notes. H. THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. [BEFFORED TO IN THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ACT u. Sc. 1.] COME live with me, and be my love, Where we will sit upon the rocks, And I will make thee beds of roses, A gown made of the finest wool, A belt of straw and ivy buds, The shepherd swains shall dance and sing THE NYMPH'S REPLY. BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH. If all the world and love were young, But time drives flocks from field to fold The flowers do fade, and wanton fields Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy belt of straw and ivy-buds, But could youth last and love still breed, INTRODUCTION ΤΟ TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL. TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL, originally appeared in the folio of 1623, being the thirteenth in the list of Comedies. We keep to the order of the Chiswick edition, not so much because of any reason for it, as because we can discover no good reason for departing from it. The arrangement of the first edition seems preferable, simply as being the first; but the change, though made capriciously, may as well stand, till something better than caprice plead for restoration. In default of positive information, Twelfth Night was for a long time set down as among the last-written of our author's plays. This opinion was based upon such slight indications gathered from the work itself, as could have no weight but in the absence of other proofs. For example, the word undertaker occurs in the play; therefore Tyrwhitt dated the writing of it in 1614, because the term was that year applied to certain men who undertook to carry matters in Parliament according to the King's liking; their arts and methods probably being much the same as are used by the lobby members of American legislatures: from which Mr. Verplanck very naturally infers that some of the Anglo-Saxon blood still runs in the veins of our republic. Chalmers, however, supposing that reference was had to the undertakers for colonizing Ulster in 1613, assigned the play to that year; and was confirmed therein by the Poet's use of the term Sophy, because the same year Sir Anthony Shirley published his Travels, wherein something was said about the Sophy of Persia. Perhaps it did not occur to either of these men that Shakespeare might have taken up the former word from its general use and meaning, not from any special ap. plications of it; these being apt to infer that it was already understood. Malone at first fixed upon 1614, but afterwards changed it to 1607, because the play contains the expression, "westwardhoe!" and Dekker's comedy entitled Westward-Hoe came out |