Lay hold upon him; if he do resist, Oth. Hold your hands, Both you of my inclining, and the rest. Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Bra. To prison, 'till fit time Of law, and course of direct session Call thee to answer. Oth. What if I do obey? How the duke be therewith satisfied, Offi. True, most worthy signior. The duke's in council; and your noble self, Bra. How! the duke in council? In this time of the night? bring him away; Or any of my brothers of the state, Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own; SCENE changes to the Senate-house. Duke and Senators, set at a Table, with Lights, and Attendants. Duke. There is no composition in these news, (23) That gives them credit. 1 Sen. Indeed they're disproportioned; (24) My letters say, a hundred and seven gallies. Duke. And mine a hundred and forty. (25) 2 Sen. And mine two hundred: (26) (23) The Duke represents the same prototype in the moon as the King's ghost in Hamlet, and Albany in King Lear, the former of which is drawn in figure 51. (24) The first senator I take to be the same as the Captain who murders Cordelia in King Lear, (fig. 96.) (25) The second senator I apprehend to have his face made up of the small shadows immediately on the left hand of the first senator, which small shadows constitute the hands of Hudibras, and are often assimilated to alphabetical letters, or arithmetical figures. (26) What was mentioned in the conclusion of the last note seems to point out the prototype of the second senator; for those shadows, so constituting the outlines of his face, may without difficulty be conceived to form his number of galleys, viz. 200. And when the various instances in which the poet in the play of King Lear was seen to denote numbers in a like manner, are recollected, it is not improbable that he might intend to point to the Duke's number of 140, as situate in light marks about the region of his shoulder or a little before it; and the first senator's number of 107, But though they jump not on a just account, But the main article I do approve In fearful sense. Sailors within.] (29) Wat hoa! Enter Sailors. Offi. A messenger from the gallies. [ment; [what hoa! what hoa! by larger characters within the field of his person, of which the one is drawn in fig. 94. The characters of the senators are so inconsiderable that a drawing is not given. of the second, nor of the numbers, the prototypes of which, perhaps overstrainedly, have been pointed out. (27) A Turkish fleet. As the ensigns of the Turks are marked with crescents, as of the moon, that circumstance may be alluded to, perhaps, by making the plot of the play to have regard, as it has in part, to Turkey. (28) Error. As of a planet, and so of the moon (as so esteemed). (29, The sailors may be those small human like heads, in shadow, situate over the head of Rodorigo (late Hudibras). As such, they may be properly considered as sailors, as they would be there situate at the stern of the ship, drawn in fig. 72, ante. Sail. The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes, By no assay of reason. 'Tis a pageant, That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes, That Rhodes is dressed in. If we make thought of this, We must not think the Turk is so unskilful, To wake, and wage a danger profitless. Duke. Nay, in all confidence, he's not for Rhodes. Offi. Here is more news. Enter a Messenger. Mes. The Ottomites (reverend and gracious,) Steering with due course towards the isle of Rhodes, Have there enjoined them with an after-fleet 1 Sen. Ay, so I thought; how many, as you guess? Mes. Of thirty sail; and now they do re-stem(30) Their backward course, bearing with frank ap pearance Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano, Your trusty and most valiant servitor, (30) If the north side of the moon be uppermost, Montano will have his prototype, I apprehend, in the strong shadow near her left hand margin, as drawn in Fig. 101. The cloven foot, as introduced in fig. 37, has the shape of the figure 3, and being situate upon Montano's shoulder may, with a round spot of light also there situate, constitute his number of thirty sail of gallies. |