_Clar._ Above the adamant; the goat's blood[180] shall not break me. Yet shallow fools and plainer moral men, That understand not what they undertake, Fall in their own snares or come short of vengeance. No; let the sun view with an open face, And afterward shrink in his blushing cheeks, Ashamed and cursing of the fix'd decree, That makes his light bawd to the crimes of men. When I have ended what I now devise, Apollo's oracle shall swear me wise. 460 Strumpet his wife! branch my false-seeming friend! And make him foster what my hate begot, A bastard, that, when age and sickness seize him, Shall be a corsive[181] to his griping heart. I'll write to her; for what her modesty Will not permit, nor my adulterate forcing, That blushless herald shall not fear to tell. Rogero shall know yet that his foe's a man, And, what is more, a true Italian! [_Exit._ [127] "What should we make here?" = What business have we here? See Middleton, i. 202. [128] So ed. 1613.--Ed. 1631 "as." [129] Cf. _Hamlet_, i. 2:-- "Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature," &c. [130] Cf. _Hamlet_, iii. 1:-- "The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns." [131] "Wall-ey'd"--having eyes in which the proportion of white is too large; fierce-eyed. "OEil de chevre. A _whall_, or over-white eye; an eye full of white spots, or whose apple seems divided by a streake of white."--_Cotgrave_. [132] Cf. _Hamlet_, iii. 4:-- "See what a grace was seated on this brow Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself," &c. [133] Old eds. "his." [134] Old eds. "_Omnes._" [135] Old eds. "ne'er." [136] "It is a vulgar belief that a man is destined to have as many wives as there appear wrinkles in his forehead when he frowns."--Ed. of 1820. [137] "Month's mind" = a strong desire. See Dyce's _Shakesp. Gloss._ [138] So ed. 1613.--Ed. 1631 "full-ri'dd." [139] Ed. 1613 gives "Your vertues man."--Ed. 1631 "Your vertues may." [140] Old eds. "_Enter_ MIZALDUS _and_ MENDOSA." [141] Old eds. "_Guid._" [142] Old eds. "_Miz._" [143] Old eds. "Cypres." [144] This play bears many traces of the study of _Hamlet_. The present passage was clearly suggested by the player's speech, "The rugged Pyrrhus," &c., and Hamlet's comments thereon. [145] Old eds. "desire." [146] Cf. _Hamlet_, i. 2:-- "The funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage-tables." [147] Branches of rosemary were formerly used at weddings. See note on Middleton, i. 9, 10. [148] Old eds. "_Rogero._" [149] Old eds. "_Clarid._"