Cost. No egma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no salve in the mail, sir: O, sir plantain, a plain plantain ; no l'envoy, no l'envoy, no salve, sir, but a plantain ! Arm. By virtue, thou enforcest laughter; thy silly thought, my spleen: the heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous smiling: O, pardon me, my stars! Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy, and the word, l'envoy, for a salve? Moth. Do the wise think them other? is not l'envoy a salve? Arm. No, page: it is an epilogue or discourse, to make plain Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain. The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee, Were still at odds, being but three. There's the moral: Now the l'envoy. Moth. I will add the l'envoy: Say the moral again. Moth. Until the goose came out of door, And stay'd the odds by adding four. Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with my l'envoy. The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee, Were still at odds, being but three: Arm. Until the goose came out of door, Staying the odds by adding four. Moth. A good l'envoy, ending in the goose; Would you desire more? Cost. The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat: Sir, your pennyworth is good, an your goose be fat,-. To sell a bargain well, is as cunning as fast and loose : Let me see a fat l'envoy; ay, that's a fat goose. Arm. Come hither, come hither: How did this argument begin? Moth. By saying, that a Costard was broken in a shin. Then cah'd you for the l'envoy. Cost. True, and I for a plantain; Thus came your Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goose that you bought. [3] Male or Mail, for a packet or bag, was a word then in use. STEEVENS Arm. But tell me; how was there a Costard broken in a shin ?" Moth. I will tell you sensibly. Cost. Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth; I will speak that l'envoy : I, Costard, running out, that was safely within, Arm. We will talk no more of this matter. Cost. O, marry me to one Frances;-I smell some l'envoy, some goose, in this. Arm. By my sweet soul, I mean, setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy person; thou wert immured, re› strained, captivated, bound. Cost. True, true; and now you will be my purgation, and let me loose. Arm. I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and, in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this: Bear this significant to the country-maid Jaquenetta: there is remuneration; [Giving him money.] for the best ward of mine honour, is, rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow. [Exit. tion. Moth. Like the sequel, I.-Signior Costard, adieu. Cost. My sweet ounce of man's flesh! my in-cony Jew! [Exit Moth.]-Now will I look to his remuneraRemuneration! O, that's the Latin word for three farthings three farthings-remuneration.-What's the price of this inkle? a penny :-No, I'll give you a remuneration why, it carries it.-Remuneration !-why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will never buy and sell out of this word. : [4] Costard is the name of a species of apple. JOHNSON. It has been already observed that the head was anciently called the costard. So in King Richard III: "* Take him over the costard with the hilt of thy sword." A costard likewise signified a crab-stick. STEEVENS. [5] Sequele, in French. signifies a great man's train. The joke is, that a single page was all his train. THEOBALD. Sequelle, by the French, is never employed but in a derogatory sense. They use it to express the gang of a highway-man, but not the train of a lord; the followers of a rebel, and not the attendants on a general. STEEVENS. [6] Incony or kony in the north, signifies, fine, delicate-as a kony thing, a fine thing. WARBURTON. There is no such expression in the North as either kony or incony. The word canny, which the people there use, and from which Dr. Warburton's mistake may have arisen, bears a variety of significations, none of which is fine, delicate, or applicable to a thing or value. RITSON. Enter BIRON. Biron. O, my good knave Costard! exceedingly well met. Cost. Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a man buy for a remuneration? Biron. What is a remuneration? Cost. Marry, sir, half-penny farthing. Biron. O, why then, three-farthings-worth of silk. Cost. Well, I will do it, sir: Fare you well. Cost. I will come to your worship to-morrow morning. it is but this ; The princess comes to hunt here in the park, And in her train there is a gentle lady; When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name, And Rosaline they call her ask for her; : And to her white hand see thou do commend This seal'd-up counsel. There's thy guerdon; go. [Gives him money. Cost. Guerdon,-O sweet guerdon! better than remuneration; eleven-pence farthing better: Most sweet guerdon-I will do it, sir, in print.-Guerdon--remu neration. [Exit. Biron. O! And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip; A very Than whom no mortal so magnificent! This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy; [7] The wimple was a hood or veil which fell over the face. Had Shakespeare been acquainted with the flammeum of the Romans, or the gem which represents the marriage of Cupid and Psyche, his choice of the epithet would have been much applauded by all the advocates in favour of his learning. In Isaiah, iii. 22, we fad: "the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping-pins." STEEVENS Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, Of trotting paritors,O my little heart!- And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop! Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, and groan; 1 [8] A placket is a petticoat. DOUCE. [Exit. [9] An apparitor, or paritor, is an officer of the Bishop's court, who carries ont ritations; as citations are most frequently issued for fornication, the paritor is put under Cupid's government. JOHNSON. [] It appears from Lord Stafford's Letters, Vol. II. p. 199, that a corporal of the field was employed as an aid-de-camp is now," in taking and carrying to and fro the directions of the general, or other the higher officers of the field." TYRWHITT. [2] The following extract is taken from a book, called The Artificial ClockMaker, 1714. Clock-making was supposed to have had its beginning in Germany within less than these two hundred years. It is very probable that our balanceclocks or watches and some other automata, might have had their beginning there," &e. To the inartificial construction of these first pieces of mechanism, executed in Germany, we may suppose Shakespeare alludes. The clock at Hampton Court, which was set up in 1540, (as appears from the inscription affixed to it) is said to be the first ever fabricated in England. STEEVENS. "In some towns in Germany, (says Dr. Powel in his Human Industry, 8vo. 1661,) there are very rare and elaborate clocks to be seen in their town-halls, wherein a man may read astronomy, and never look up to the skies.-In the townhall of Prague there is a clock that shows the annual motions of the sun and moon, the names and numbers of the months, days, and festivals of the whole year, the time of the sun rising and setting throughout the year, the equinoxes, the length of the days and nights, the rising and setting of the twelve signs of the Zodiac, &c.-But the town of Strasburgh carries the bell of all other steeples of Germany in this point." These elaborate clocks were probably often "out of frame." ALONE. ACT IV. SCENE I.-Another part of the same. Enter the Princess, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET, Lords, Attend ants, and a Forester. Princess. WAS that the king, that spur'd his horse so hard Boyet. I know not; but, I think, it was not he. -Then, forester, my friend, where is the bush, For. Yes, madam, fair. Prin. Nay, never paint me now; Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow. [Giving him money. Fair payment for foul words is more than due. A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.- When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part, |