Æge. Hopeless and helpless doth Ægeon wend, SCENE II.-The Mart. [Exeunt. Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, DROMIO of Syracuse, First Mer. Therefore, give out you are of Epidamnum, Is apprehended for arrival here, And, not being able to buy out his life, Ant. S. Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host, 157. Egeon] Egean F 1. 158. lifeless] Warburton; liuelesse Ff. SCENE II.] Pope; no division into scenes in Ff. Enter Antipholus of Syracuse...] 5. buy out] Craig compares Ham- "And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize Buys out the law." The Mart] Clark and 1. First Mer. 10. till] tell F 2. 7. weary sun] Compare Richar III. v. iii. 19: "The weary sun hatl made a golden set "; and King John v. iv. 35: "the feeble and day-wearied sun. 9. host] lodge. Compare v. i. 411 "your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur." But the only othe passage in Shakespeare where the verb is used is in All's Well that End Well, III. v. 97: "I will bring you Where you shall host." 5 Within this hour it will be dinner-tim Dro. S. Many a man would take you at yo II, 12. Inverted in Ff 2, 3, 4. 64 of India?"; son little va (Doll of Falst Winter's Tale Mamillius): 21. humour welkin eye; s frequent in Sh Compare in th 7; IV. i. 27; "humour " have been ap physiologists of the body the "melanch "phlegmatic, of these und man became about Shakes gan to be ap in a passage the Learning Man out of (Works, vol. remarks: "V the manners now to be ca word was new ( joning at fasst will D. of E., not too 2 Henry IV. 1. iv. 225 aff): "Ah, you whoreliant villain, you!"; , I. ii. 136 (Leontes of Look on me with your weet villain !"; etc. ] The well-known word, hakespeare and Jonson. is play, 1. ii. 58; 11. ii. IV. i. 57. The word F.e. moisture) seems to plied by the mediæval to the four chief "fluids" -the "sanguine," the "the "choleric" and olic." As soon as any uly preponderated, the 'humorous "; and just peare's time the word beplied to conduct caused ular mood, disposition, Whalley, Enquiry into of Shakespeare, 1748, on Ben Jonson's Every his Humour (1599) ii. p. 16, ed. Gifford), Vhat was usually called in a play or poem began lled the humours. The w; the use, or rather the 46 What, will you walk with me about the town, And then go to my inn, and dine with me? First Mer. I am invited, sir, to certain merchants, Of whom I hope to make much benefit; I crave your pardon. Soon at five o'clock, Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart, And afterward consort you till bed-time: My present business calls me from you now. 23. my] F 1; the Ff 2, 3, 4. Mer. Rowe. wards Steevens. 25 24, 32. First Mer.] Dyce; E. Mer. Ff; 28. afterward] after 26. Soon at] Soon, at Johnson. consort] consort with Hanmer. abuse, of it was excessive. It was applied upon all occasions, with as little judgment as wit. Every coxcomb had it always in his mouth; and every particularity he affected was dominated by the name of humour," ' etc. Gifford adds in his note: "The abuse of this word is well ridiculed by Shakespeare in that amusing creature of whimsey, Nym, Merry Wives of Windsor." See also Love's Labour's Lost, Henry V. passim, and Trench, Select Glossary, 3rd ed. 1865, p. 103. 26. Soon at five o'clock] about five o'clock (Dyce), or "at five o'clock sharp" (Craig), who remarks, "Perhaps, however, there should be a comma after the word 'Soon,' and it might mean 'early,' 'early in the evening, about five." This is Johnson's punctuation. Compare III. ii. 177 of this play: "soon at supper-time I'll visit you"; Richard III. IV. iii. 31: "Come to me Tyrrel, soon at after supper" (Folios, and after supper"); Merchant of Venice, 1. iii. 5: "Soon at supper shall thou see Lorenzo." The phrase "Soon at night" occurs in Romeo and Juliet, II. v. 78; 2 Henry IV. v. v. 96; Merry Wives of Windsor, 1. iv. 8, and 11. ii. 95; Measure for Measure, I. iv. 88; and Othello, III. iv. 198. 66 soon, The Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith, in his pamphlet Shakespeare's Editors and Commentators, 1865, commenting on the word " soon, remarks (p. 7), Although 'soon' in the West of England to this day, as is said (Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words), still signifies evening, yet elsewhere, or to persons unversed in the nomenclature of the TudorStuart era, such a signification is unknown, and would be sought to as little purpose in the Minsheus (Minsheu's Ductor in linguas) of a prior or a later date, as in the grammar of a Bullokar or a Murray would the fact, attested by a contemporary of Shakespeare, a head-master of St. Paul's School-that the use of soon as an adverb, in the familiar sense of betimes,' 'by and by,' or 'quickly,' had, when he wrote, been eclipsed with most men by an acceptation restricted to 'night-fall': the statement of this witness is worth quoting in his own words. In the comparison of adverbs at p. 28 of his Logonomia Anglica, ed. 1619, Gil writes'Quickly cito, sooner citior aut citius, soonest citissimus aut citissime, nam 'soon' hodie apud plurimos significat ad primam vesperam, olim cito.'" 28. Consort] accompany. Shakespeare does not seem to draw any Ant. S. Farewell till then: I will go lose Here comes the almanac of my true What now? 32. [Exit.] 38. Unseen,] In search 40. t inquisitive,] Unseen inquisitive! Staunton. unhappy,] Ff 2, 3, 4; (unhappie a) F 1; unhappier 37. Who Venice, II. vi who," etc.; brave vessel 37. find we say, to fi "dines for Compare M 144 distinction between the use of this intoxicated 66 Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo"; and Macbeth, 11. iii. 141: "Let's not consort with them." "Wh I shot flight The se advis To find 35. to the world] Compared with For the se The phrase is common in compare als the world. Ireland and the north of England, at least in Lancashire. 41. alman A hopelessly Dromio, wh v forth, self: But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray, Ant. S. Stop in your wind, sir: tell me this, I pray: Ant. S. I am not in a sportive humour now : 55 60 55. o' Wednesday] Steevens (1773); a Wensday Ff 1, 2, 3; a Wednesday F 4; o' We'nsday Capell. 52. penitent] "penitents," the sug- 61. ment, a kind of rough reckoning concerning wares issued out of a shop was kept by chalk or notches on a post, till it could be entered on the books of a trader. So in [Ben Jonson's] Every Man in his Humour [iii. 3] Kitely the merchant making his jealous enquiries concerning the familiarities used to his wife, Cob answers: if I saw anybody to be |