_And._ 'Tis a good boy, and by my troth, well sung.
O, and thou felt'st my grief, I warrant thee,
Thou would'st have strook division[109] to the height,
And made the life of music breathe: hold, boy; why so.
For God's sake call me not Andrugio,
That I may soon forget what I have been. 110
For heaven's name, name not Antonio,
That I may not remember he was mine.
Well, ere yon sun set, I'll show myself,
Worthy my blood. I was a Duke; that's all.
No[110] matter whither, but from whence we fall.[111]
[_Exeunt._
[101] Open (Gr. chainô, chaunô). Cotgrave gives:--"To
_chawne_,--se fendre, gercer, crevasser, crever, se jarcer."
[102] Old eds. "Speake" (and "Speak").
[103] "'The king enacts more wonders than a man,
Daring an opposite to every danger.'
_Richard III._"--_Dilke._
[104] Cf. _Richard III._ (v. 3):--
"God and good angels fight on Richmond's side."
[105] Old eds. "Chekle-roule."
[106] "Cog a die" = load a die.
[107] Dilke compares _Richard III._ (v. 3):--
"Who saw the sun to-day?
_Rat._ Not I, my lord.
_Rich._ Then he disdains to shine."
[108] Omitted in ed. 1.
[109] Variations in music.
[110] The sentiment is from Seneca's _Thyestes_, l. 925:--
"Magis unde cadas
Quam quo refert."
[111] "The situation of Andrugio and Lucio resembles that of Lear
and Kent, in that King's distresses. Andrugio, like Lear,
manifests a kind of royal impatience, a turbulent greatness, an
affected resignation. The enemies which he enters lists to
combat, 'Despair, and mighty Grief, and sharp Impatience;' and
the Forces ('Cornets of Horse,' &c.) which he brings to vanquish
them, are in the boldest style of allegory. They are such a 'race
of mourners' as 'the infection of sorrows loud' in the intellect
might beget on 'some pregnant cloud' in the
imagination."--_Charles Lamb._
SCENE II.
_Palace of the Duke of Venice._
_Enter_ FELICHE _walking, unbraced_.
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