[_Clo_. One, that old Frederick your father loves.
_Cel_. My father's love is enough to honour him]
[T. invoking the Dramatis Personae: Celia] Mr. Theobald seems not
to know that the Dramatis Personae were first enumerated by Rowe.
I.ii.95 (239,2) [since the little wit that fools have, was silenc'd]
Shakespeare probably alludes to the use of _fools_ or _jesters_, who
for some ages had been allowed in all courts an unbridled liberty
of censure and mockery, and about this time began to be less
tolerated.
I.ii.112 (240,3) [laid on with a trowel] I suppose the meaning is,
that there is too heavy a mass of big words laid upon a slight subject.
I.ii.115 (240,4) [You amaze me, ladies] To _amaze_, here, is not to
astonish or strike with wonder, but to perplex; to confuse; as,
to put out of the intended narrative.
I.ii.131 (241,5) [With bills on their necks: _Be it known unto all
men by these presents_] This conjecture is ingenious. Where meaning
is so very thin, as in this vein of jocularity, it is hard to
catch, and therefore I know not well what to determine; but I cannot
see why Rosalind should suppose, that the competitors in a
wrestling match carried _bills_ on their shoulders, and I believe
the whole conceit is in the poor resemblance of _presence_ and _presents_.
I.ii.149 (241,6) [is there any else longs to see this broken musick
in his sides?] [W: set] If any change were necessary, I should
write, _feel this broken musick_, for _see_. But _see_ is the colloquial
term for perception or experiment. So we say every day,
_see_ if the water be hot; I will _see_ which is the best time; she
has tried, and _sees_ that she cannot lift it. In this sense _see_
may be here used. The sufferer can, with no propriety, be said
to _set_ the musick; neither is the allusion to the act of tuning
an instrument, or pricking a tune, one of which must be meant by
_setting_ musick. Rosalind hints at a whimsical similitude between
the series of ribs gradually shortening, and some musical instruments,
and therefore calls _broken ribs, broken musick_.
I.ii.185 (243,8) [If you saw yourself with your eyes, or knew yourself
with your judgment] [W: our eyes, and our judgment] I cannot
find the absurdity of the present reading. _If you were not
blinded and intoxicated_, says the princess, _with the spirit of
enterprise, if you could use_ your own eyes to _see_, or your own
judgment to know _yourself, the fear of your adventure would counsel
you_.
I.ii.195 (243,9) [I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts,
wherein I confess me much guilty] I should wish to read, _I beseech
you, punish me not with your hard thoughts_. Therein _I confess myself
much guilty to deny so fair and excellent ladies any thing._
I.ii.257 (246,1) [one out of suits with Fortune] This seems an allusion
to cards, where he that has no more cards to play of any
particular sort is _out of suit_.
I.ii.275 (247,3) [the Duke's condition] The word _condition_ means
character, temper, disposition. So Anthonio the merchant of
Venice, is called by his friend the _best conditioned man_.
I.iii.33 (249,5) [you should love his son dearly? By this kind of
chase, I should hate him, for my father hated his father dearly]
That is, by this way of _following_ the argument. _Dear_ is used by
Shakespeare in a double sense, for _beloved_, and for _hurtful_,
_hated_, _baleful_. Both senses are authorised, and both drawn from
etymology, but properly _beloved_ is _dear_, and _hateful_ is _dere._
Rosalind uses _dearly_ in the good, and Celia in the bad sense.
I.iii.83 (251,6) [And thou wilt show more bright, and seem more virtuous]
[W: shine] The plain meaning of the old and true reading is, that when
she was seen alone, she would be more noted.
I.iii.98 (251,7) [Rosalind lacks then the love Which teacheth thee
that thou and I am one][W: which teacheth me] Either reading may
stand. The sense of the established text is not remote or obscure.
Where would be the absurdity of saying, _You know not the law which
teaches you to do right_.
I.iii.119 (252,9) [curtle-ax]--_curtle-axe_. or _cutlace_. a broad
sword.