+Duke.+ The very same, sir. That for my recreation have descended, And no impeach, I hope, to royalty To sit spectator of your mirth. And thus much You shall gain by my presence: what is pass'd, I'll see it ratified as firm, as if Myself and senate had concluded it. And when a prince allows his subjects sport, He that pines at it, let him perish for 't. FOOTNOTES: [358] _A cooling card_ is frequently mentioned in our ancient authors; but the precise sense in which it is used is difficult to be ascertained. In some places it seems to signify _admonition_ or _advice_; in others, _censure_ or _reproof_. In Lyly's "Euphues," p. 39, "Euphues, to the intent he might bridle the overlashing affections of Philautus, conveied into his studie a certeine pamphlet, which he tearmed _A cooling card_ for Philautus; yet generally to bee applyed to all lovers." So in the "First Part of Henry VI.," act v. sc. 4-- "There all is marr'd; there lies _a cooling card_." And in the "Wounds of Civil War," 1594-- "I'll have a present _cooling card_ for you." [359] See Note to this play, p. 421. [360] _i.e._, at the _fall_ of water through a bridge. The idea seems to be taken from the noisy situation of the houses formerly standing on London Bridge.--_Steevens._ [361] So in "Hamlet," act iii. sc. 4-- "This is the very coinage of your brain; This bodiless creation _ecstasy_ Is very cunning in." Mr Steevens observes that in this place, and many others, _ecstasy_ means a temporary alienation of mind, a fit. [362] Alluding to the fate of Polydorus, a son of King Priam. See Virgil's "Æneid," book iii. l. 49-- "Hunc _Polydorum auri_ quondam cum pondere magno Infelix Priamus furtim mandarat alendum Threicio regi---- . . . . _Polydorum_ obtruncat, et _auro_ Vi petitur." [363] In the first edit. this line is thus-- "Black with the curls of snakes, sits a spectatrix." It may be doubted whether Mr Reed had sufficient warrant for altering the old reading: at all events _spectatrix_, the word of the time, might have stood; perhaps, in the two next lines _their_ should be changed to _her_.--_Collier._ [364] So in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"-- "Let me lodge _Lichas_ on the horn o' th' moon." --_Steevens._ Again, Ovid's "Metam.," lib. 9. l. 215-- "Tremit ille pavetque Pallidus; et timide verba excusantia dicit Dicentem, genibusque manus adhibere parantem Corripit Alcides; et terque quaterque rotatum Mittit in Euboicas tormento fortius undas, Ille per aerias pendens indurnit auras." Of which the following is Gay's translation--