So poor, fo wretched, when no living thing Would keep thee company, but a spider, or worse? Giv'n thee thy oaths, thy quarrelling dimenfions? Dol. Gentlemen, what mean you? Will you mar all? Sub. Slave, thou hadst had no name Dol. Will you undo your felves with civil war? The heat of horse-dung, under ground, in cellars, Had not I been. Dol. Do you know who hears you, fovereign? Dol. Nay, general, I thought you were civil Fac. Hang thee, collier, And all thy pots and pans, in picture, I will, Since thou haft mov'd me Dol. (O, this 'll o'erthrow all.) Fac. Write thee up bawd in Paul's, have all thy [tricks Of 3 Of coz'ning with a hollow cole, duft, fcrapings, And taking in of fhadows with a glass, Dol. Are you found? Ha' you your fenfes, mafters? Fac. I will have A book, but barely reckoning thy impostures, Fac. Out, you dog-leach, The vomit of all prifons Dol. Will you be Your own deftructions, gentlemen? For lying too heavy o' the basket": 3 Have all thy tricks Sub. Of cox'ning with a hollow cole.] This alludes to a story in the Chanon's Yeman's tale, as told by Chaucer, v. 1180. This tale is a fatire on the pretenders to alchemy, and the tricks they practised to cheat the ignorant and foolish. 4 And taking in of SHADOWS with a GLASS, Told in RED LETTERS.] i. c. fays Mr. Upton, letters written in blood; and he thinks it an allufion to a particular manner of divination with a glafs, mentioned by the fcholiaft of Ariftophanes in Nub. v. 750. I rather apprehend it, an allufion to a practice familiar to the fortune-tellers of our author's days: and that these Shadows were vifions taken by a beril, which is a kind of crystal, they had used to look into Certain formulas of prayer were used before they made the infpection; thefe forms they termed a Call; and the perfon making the infpection, was ftyled the Speculator, Seryer, or Seer. As to the expreffion told in red letters, the meaning is, that he would have all thofe tricks juft mentioned printed in red letters, which would be apter to catch the eye of a paffenger than the common print. And it was cuftomary at that time, to print the titles of their ballads, and vulgar tales, in red letters. Still Spew'd out For lying too heavy o' the basket.] i. c. for eating more than his share of Sub. Cheater. Fac. Bawd. Sub. Cow-herd. We are ruin'd! loft! ha' you no more regard Fac. Away, this brach. I'll bring thee, rogue, within The ftatute of forcery, tricefimo tertio Of Harry the eighth: I, and (perhaps) thy neck Within a noose, for laundring gold, and barbing it. Dol. You'll bring your head within a cockscomb, [will you? [She catches out Face's fword, and breaks Subtle's glass. And you, fir, with your menftrue, gather it up. 'Sdeath, you abominable pair of ftinkards, Leave off your barking, and grow one again, Or, by the light that fhines, I'll cut your throats. I'll not be made a prey unto the marshal, For ne'er a fnarling dog-bolt o' you both. Ha' you together cozen'd all this while, And all the world? and fhall it now be faid, Yo'have made most courteous fhift to cozen yourselves? you too Will give the caufe, forfooth? you will infult, You must be chief? as if you only had of the provifions collected, or fent in for the prifoners. In the laft edition, these words are a continuation of Dol's fpeech, whereas they evidently belong to Face, to whom I have here restored them. The The powder to project with, and the work The venter tripartite? all things in common? Fac. 'Tis his fault, He ever murmurs, and objects his pains, Sub. Why, fo it does. Dol. How does it? do not we Suftain our parts? upon him. Sub. Yes, but they are not equal. Dol. Why, if your part exceed to-day, I hope Ours may to-morrow match it. Sub. I, they may. Dol. May, murmuring maftiff! I, and do. Death Help me to throttle him. Sub. Dorothee, miftris Dorothee; [on me! 'Ods precious, I'll do any thing. What do you mean? Dol. Because o' your fermentation and cibation? Sub. Not I, by heaven Dol. Your Sol and Luna help me?. Or, by this hand, I shall grow FACTIOUS too.] Dr. Grey questions the prefent reading, and thinks fractious, that is, quarrelfome, might have been the original word. I wou'd not deprive the reader of his ingenious conjecture, tho' I have not taken upon me to alter And it feems confirmed by what Dol afterwards fays to the text. Subtle; To leave your faction, fir, "And labour kindly in the common work." Dol. Your Sol and Luna help me.] To rail and abuse him, as Mr. Upton fays the phrafe muft here be understood. Or perhaps, to throttle him; as he now holds him faft by the collar, 1 juft before said fo, and called for affiftance. Sub. f Sub. Would I were hang'd then. I'll conform my self. Dol. To leave your faction, fir, And labour kindly in the common work. Sub. Let me not breathe, if I meant ought befide. I only us'd those speeches as a spur To him. Dol. I hope we need no fpurs, fir. Do we? Dol. Yes, and work close and friendly. Shall grow the ftronger for this breach, with me. Dol. Why, fo, my good baboons! Shall we go make A fort of fober, fcurvy, precife neighbours, (That scarce have fmil'd twice fin' the king came in) Would run themselves from breath, to fee me ride, Sub. Royal Dol! Spoken like Claridiana, and thy felf. Fac. For which at fupper, thou fhalt fit in triumph, 8 Rafcals, Would run themselves from breath, to fee me RIDE, Or you t have but a hole to thrust your heads in, For which you should pay EAR-RENT?] To fee me ride. i. e. to fee me carted as a bawd; and you, as a couple of rogues, to lofe your ears in the pillory. Mr. UPTON. And |