Go, get you gone, and let the papers lie:

You would be fingering them, to anger me.

Luc. She makes it strange; but she would be best pleas'd

To be so anger'd with another letter.

[Exit. JUL. Nay, would I were so anger'd with the same!

O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
Injurious wasps; to feed on such sweet honey,
And kill the bees, that yield it, with your stings!
I'll kiss each several paper for amends.

Look, here is writ-kind Julia ;-unkind Julia!
As in revenge of thy ingratitude,

I throw thy name against the bruising stones,
Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain.
And here is writ-love-wounded Proteus:-
Poor wounded name! my bosom, as a bed,
Shall lodge thee', till thy wound be throughly heal'd;
And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss.
But twice, or thrice, was Proteus written down 2:
Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away,
Till I have found each letter in the letter,
Except mine own name; that some whirlwind bear
Unto a ragged, fearful, hanging rock,

And throw it thence into the raging sea!
Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ,-
Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
To the sweet Julia;-that I'll tear away;
And yet I will not, sith so prettily
He couples it to his complaining names:

Mr. Malone's explanation of the verb-bid, is unquestionably just. So, in one of the parts of K. Henry VI. :

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"Of force enough to bid his brother battle." STEEVENS. my воSOм, as a BED, shall lodge thee,] So, in Venus and Adonis :

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"Here was thy father's bed, here in my breast." MALONE. -written DowN] To" write down," is still a provincial expression for-to write. HENLey.

Thus will I fold them one upon another;

Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will.

Luc. Madam,

Re-enter Lucetta.

Dinner is ready, and your father stays.

Jul. Well, let us go.

Luc. What, shall these papers lie like tell-tales here?

JUL. If you respect them, best to take them up. Luc. Nay, I was taken up for laying them down: Yet here they shall not lie, for catching cold3.

JUL. I see, you have a month's mind to them".

3 Yet here they shall not lie FOR catching cold.] i. e. lest they should catch cold.

So, in an ancient "Dialogue both pleasaunte and profitable," by Willyam Bulleyn, 1564:

"My horse starteth, and had like to have unsaddled me; let me sit faster, for falling."

Again, in Plutarch's Life of Antony, translated by Sir Thomas North: "So he was let in, and brought to her muffled as he was, for being known," i. e. for fear of being known.

Again, in Peele's K. Edward I. 1503:

"Hold up your torches for dripping."

Again, in Love's Pilgrimage:

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Stir my horse, for catching cold."

Again, in Barnabie Riche's "Soldiers Wishe to Britons Welfare, or Captaine Skill and Captaine Pill," 1604, p. 64: "Such other ill-disposed persons, being once press'd, must be kept with continual guard, &c. for running away." STEEVENS.

4 I see you have a MONTH'S MIND to them.] A month's mind was an anniversary in times of popery; or, as Mr. Ray calls it, a less solemnity directed by the will of the deceased. There was also a year's mind, and a week's mind. See Proverbial Phrases.

This appears from the interrogatories and observations against the clergy, in the year 1552, Inter. 7: "Whether there are any month's minds and anniversaries? Strype's Memorials of the Reformation, vol. vii. p. 354.

"Was the month's mind of Sir William Laxton, who died the last month, (July 1556,) his hearse burning with wax, and the morrow mass celebrated, and a sermon preached," &c. Strype's 'Mem. vol. iii. p. 305. GREY.

A month's mind, in the ritual sense, signifies not desire or

Luc. Ay, madam, you may say what sights you see; I see things too, although you judge I wink, JUL. Come, come, will't please you go? [Exeunt.

SCENE III.

The Same. A Room in ANTONIO'S House.

Enter ANTONIO and PANTHINO.

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ANT. Tell me, Panthino, what sad talk was that, wherewith my brother held you in the cloister?

inclination, but remembrance; yet I suppose this is the true original of the expression. JOHNSON.

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In Hampshire, and other western counties, for "I can't remember it," they say, I can't mind it." BLACKSTONE. Puttenham, in his Art of Poetry, 1589, chap. 24, speaking of Poetical Lamentations, says, they were chiefly used "at the burials of the dead, also at month's minds, and longer times: and in the churchwarden's accompts of St. Helen's in Abingdon, Berkshire, 1558, these month's minds, and the expences attending them, are frequently mentioned. Instead of month's minds, they are sometimes called month's monuments, and in the Injunctions of K. Edward VI. memories, Injunct. 21. By memories, says Fuller, we understand the Obsequia for the dead, which some say succeeded in the place of the heathen Parentalia.

If this line was designed for a verse, we should read-monthes mind. So, in A Midsummer Night's Dream:

“Swifter than the moones sphere." Both these are the Saxon genitive case. STEEVENS.

The old copy reads-" month's, not monthes," which shew what was intended. Why should we suppose that the line was meant for a verse? Our author throughout these plays frequently intermixes prose with his verse; though Mr. Steevens has laboured, by the aid of interpolation and omission, to efface all vestiges of this practice. MALONE.

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what SAD talk-] Sad is the same as grave or serious. JOHNSON.

So, in The Wise Woman of Hogsden, 1638:

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Marry, sir knight, I saw them in sad talk,
"But to say they were directly whispering," &c.

Again, in Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra, 1578:

"The king feigneth to talk sadly with some of his counsel."

STEEVENS.

PANT. 'Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son.
ANT. Why, what of him?

PANT. He wonder'd, that your lordship
Would suffer him to spend his youth at home;
While other men, of slender reputation",
Put forth their sons to seek preferment out:
Some to the wars, to try their fortune there;
Some, to discover islands far away7;
Some, to the studious universities.
For any, or for all these exercises,

He said, that Proteus, your son, was meet;
And did request me, to impórtune you,
To let him spend his time no more at home,
Which would be great impeachment to his age,
In having known no travel in his youth.

ANT. Nor need'st thou much impórtune me to that

Whereon this month I have been hammering.
I have consider'd well his loss of time;
And how he cannot be a perfect man,
Not being try'd, and tutor'd in the world:
Experience is by industry atchiev'd,

And perfected by the swift course of time:

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OF slender reputation,] i. e. who are thought slightly of, are of little consequence. STEEvens.

7 Some, to discover islands far away;] In Shakspeare's time, voyages for the discovery of the islands of America were much in vogue. And we find, in the journals of the travellers of that time, that the sons of noblemen, and of others of the best families in England, went very frequently on these adventures. Such as the Fortescues, Collitons, Thornhills, Farmers, Pickerings, Littletons, Willoughbys, Chesters, Hawleys, Bromleys, and others. To this prevailing fashion our poet frequently alludes, and not without high commendations of it. WARBURTON.

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- great IMPEACHMENT to his age,] Impeachment in this passage means reproach or imputation. So Demetrius says to Helena in A Midsummer-Night's Dream :

"You do impeach your modesty too much,

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To leave the city, and commit yourself,

"Into the hands of one that loves you not." M. MASON.

Then, tell me, whither were I best to send him?
PANT. I think, your lordship is not ignorant,
How his companion, youthful Valentine,
Attends the emperor in his royal court 9.
ANT. I know it well.

PANT. "Twere good, I think, your lordship sent him thither:

There shall he practise tilts and tournaments,
Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen;
And be in eye of every exercise,

Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth.

ANT. I like thy counsel; well hast thou advis'd: And, that thou may'st perceive how well I like it, The execution of it shall make known; Even with the speediest expedition

I will dispatch him to the emperor's court.
PANT. To-morrow, may it please you, Don Al-
phonso,

With other gentlemen of good esteem,
Are journeying to salute the emperor,
And to commend their service to his will.

ANT. Good company; with them shall Proteus go: And, in good time',-now will we break with him".

9 Attends the emperor in his royal court.] Shakspeare has been guilty of no mistake in placing the emperor's court at Milan in this play. Several of the first German emperors held their courts there occasionally, it being, at that time, their immediate property, and the chief town of their Italian dominions. Some of them were crowned kings of Italy at Milan, before they received the imperial crown at Rome. Nor has the poet fallen into any contradiction, by giving a duke to Milan at the same time that the emperor held his court there. The first dukes of that, and all the other great cities in Italy, were not sovereign princes, as they afterwards became; but were merely governors, or viceroys, under the emperors, and removeable at their pleasure. Such was the Duke of Milan mentioned in this play. Mr. Monck Mason adds, that "during the wars in Italy between Francis I. and Charles V. the latter frequently resided at Milan." STEEVENS. IN GOOD TIME,] In good time was the old expression

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