FIRST PART OF KING HENRY VI. ACT II.-Scene 4.-Scene in the Temple Garden.-WARWICK, Somerset, THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI I. ACT I.—Scene 4.-After the Battle of Wakefield.—QUEEN Margaret, YORK.-'Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland '—' My soul to heaven, my blood upon your heads!' (or York's Speech alone, 'She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France', etc.) II. ACT II.-Scene 5.-Soliloquy.-KING HENRY.-'This battle fares like to the morning's war'-'When care, mistrust, and treason waits on him.' III. ACT III.—Scene 2.—Soliloquy on his deformity.-GLOUCESTEr.— 'Ay, Edward will use women honourably'—'Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.' KING HENRY VIII. ACT II.-Scene 4.—Queen Katharine's Appeal to the King.-KING HENRY, QUEEN KATHARINE, WOLSEY, Campeius.-'Whilst our commission from Rome is read '—'In any of their courts.' KING JOHN ACT IV.-Scene 1.-HUBERT, ARTHUR, TWO EXECUTIONERS.-' Heat me these irons hot; and look thou stand'-' Much danger do I undergo for thee.' (See also ACT V.-Scene 2.-LEWIS, PANDULPH, THE BASTARD, AND OTHERS.) KING LEAR ་ ACT IV. - Scene 6. The Cliff at Dover.-GLOUCESTER, EDGAR.'When shall we come to the top of that same hill ?'-' Bear free and patient thoughts. But who comes here?' KING RICHARD 11. I.-ACT I.-Scene 1.-The Challenge.-KING RICHARD, JOHN OF GAUNT, BOLINGBROKE, NORFOLK.—' Old John of Gaunt, timehonoured Lancaster'- -‘Be ready to direct these home alarms.' II.-ACT I.-Scene 3.—The Lists at Coventry.-KING RICHARD, JOHN OF GAUNT, BOLINGBROKE, NORFOLK, LORD MARSHAL, Aumerle, MOWBRAY.-'My Lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford armed?''Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman' (with omissions). III. ACT IV.-Scene .-Westminster Hall-The Abdication.—KING RICHARD, YORK, BOLINGBROKE, AND OTHERS.-'Call forth Bagot' -'A plot shall show us all a merry day' (with omissions). IV.-ACT V.-Scene 1.-Parting of Richard and his Queen. -KING Richard, Queen, NorthumbeRLAND.—‘This way the king will come; this is the way'- -'Once more, adieu; the rest let sorrow say.' (See also Scene 2.-Entry of Bolingbroke and Richard into London.) V.-ACT V.—Scene 4.—Pomfret—Soliloquy.—King Richard.—' I have been studying how I may compare'- Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world.' KING RICHARD III. ACT III.-Scene 4.-Hastings ordered to Execution. - BUCKINGHAM, HASTINGS, BISHOP OF ELY, GLOUCESTER, AND OTHERS. - My lords, at once’— -They smile at me that shortly shall be dead.' MACBETH I. ACT I.-Scene 3.-Scene on the Heath. -THREE WITCHES, MAC- II.—ACT I.—Scenes 5, 6, and 7.-The Murder of Duncan devised.— III. ACT II.-Scenes 1, 2, and 3.-The Murder of Duncan.—BANQUO, MEASURE FOR MEASURE ACT II.-Scene 2.-Isabella pleads for Claudio.-ANGELO, LUCIO, ISABELLA, PROVOst, Servant.-'He's hearing of a cause: he will come straight- -'When men were fond, I smiled and wondered how.' THE MERCHANT OF VENICE I. ACT II. - THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR I. ACT I.-Scene 1.-Slender's Wooing.-SHALLOW, SLENDER, SIR THE TEMPEST ACT II.-Scene 2.-Caliban and the Shipwrecked Men.-CALIBAN, THE WINTER'S TALE ACT IV.-Scenes 3 and 4.-Pedlar and Country People.-AUTOLYCUS, TIMON OF ATHENS ACT IV.-Scene 3.-TIMON, APEMANTUS, FLAVIUS.-'That nature being sick of man's unkindness'- -end of Act (omitting from "Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer' to 'Rogue, rogue, rogue!' and from 6 Enter THIEVES' to 'Exeunt THIEVES.') TROILUS AND CRESSIDA ACT I.-Scene 3.-AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES, MENELAUS, AND OTHERS.-'Princes, what grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks?'' Makes many Thetis' sons.' THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Ia. ACT II.-Scene 5; Ib.-ACT II.-Scene 3; Ic.-ACT IV.-Scene 4. -SPEED, LAUNCE, PANTHINO.-Launce and his Dog.-(These three will make one scene. After Ia, exeunt SPEED and LAUNCE; at Ib, re-enter LAUNCE; at end, exit PANTHINO, leaving LAUNCE alone. In Ic. omit from 'suffered for't' to 'out of the chamber,' and from 'Sebastian is thy name?' to ' I hope thou wilt' and end at ' into my sight.') 10 20 Pro. Monarch of gods and demons, and all spirits But one, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this earth Have its deaf waves not heard my agony? chains Eat with their burning cold into my bones. The ghastly people of the realm of dream, Mocking me: and the earthquake-fiends are charged To wrench the rivets from my quivering wounds, As some dark priest hales the reluctant victim- If they disdained not such a prostrate slave. Disdain! Ah no! I pity thee. What ruin Will hunt thee undefended through the wide heaven! How will thy soul, cloven to its depth with terror, Gape like a hell within! I speak in grief, Not exultation, for I hate no more, 40 50 As then ere misery made me wise. The curse Once breathed on thee I would recall. Ye mountains, Whose many-voiced echoes, through the mist And ye swift whirlwinds, who on poised wings Hung mute and moveless o'er yon hushed abyss, As thunder, louder than your own, made rock See also TRANSLATION OF EURIPIDES CYCLOPS 'O Jupiter! I saw within the cave '- -' sailed here with me.' 70 10 20 RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN I.-ACT I.-Scene 1. A Room in Dangle's House. DANGLE, SNEER. Enter Sir FRETFUL PLAGIARY. (1751-1816) THE CRITIC Dan. Ah, my dear friend!-Egad, we were just speaking of your tragedy. Admirable, Sir Fretful, admirable! Sneer. You never did anything beyond it, Sir Fretful,-never in your life. Sir Fret. You make me extremely happy; for, without a compliment, my dear Sneer, there isn't a man in the world whose judgment I value as I do yours and Mr Dangle's. Dan. But, Sir Fretful, have you sent your play to the managers yet?—or can I be of any service to you? Sir Fret. No, no, I thank you: I believe the piece had sufficient recommendation with it.— I thank you, though-I sent it to the manager of Covent Garden Theatre this morning. Sneer. I should have thought now, that it might have been cast (as the actors call it) better at Drury Lane. Sir Fret. O lud! no-never send a play there while I live-hark ye! (Whispers Sneer.) Sneer. Writes himself! I know he does. Sir Fret. I say nothing-I take away from no man's merit-am hurt at no man's good fortune. I say nothing. But this I will saythrough all my knowledge of life, I have observed-that there is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.... Besides, I can tell you it is not always so safe to leave a play in the hands of those who write themselves. Sneer. What, they may steal from them, hey, my dear Plagiary? Sir Fret. Steal! to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gipsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. ... A dexterous plagiarist may do anything. Why, sir, for aught I know, he might take out some of the best things in my tragedy, and put them into his own comedy. Sneer. That might be done, I dare be sworn. Sir Fret. Ay, but with regard to this piece, I think I can hit that gentleman, for I can safely swear he never read it. Sneer. I'll tell you how you may hurt him Dan. Why, faith, it is but an ungracious thing, for the most part, to Sir Fret. With most authors it is just so, indeed; they are in general strangely tenacious! But, for my part, I am never so well pleased as when a judicious critic points out any defect to me; for what is the purpose of 70 showing a work to a friend, if you don't mean to profit by his opinion? 80 90 100 Sneer. Very true. Why then, though I seriously admire the piece upon the whole, yet there is one small objection; which, if you'll give me leave, I'll mention. Sir Fret. Sir, you can't oblige me more. Sir Fret. You surprise me !—wants incident! Sneer. Yes; I own I think the incidents are too few. Sir Fret. Believe me, Mr Sneer, there is no person for whose judgment I have a more implicit deference. But I protest to you, Mr Sneer, I am only apprehensive that the incidents are too crowded. My dear Dangle, how does it strike you? Dan. Really, I can't agree with my friend Sneer. I think the first four acts by many degrees the best I ever read or saw in my life. If I might venture to suggest anything, it is that the interest rather falls off in the fifth. Sir Fret. Rises, I believe you mean, sir. Dan. No; I don't, upon my word. Sir Fret. Yes, yes, you do, upon my soul ! -it certainly don't fall off, I assure you.-No, no; it don't fall off. Sneer. If I should make any objection, it would be that the piece is, on the whole, a little too long. Sir Fret. Pray, Mr Sneer, do you speak as to duration of time; or do you mean that the story is tediously spun out? very Sneer. O Lud! no.-I speak only with reference to the usual length of acting plays. Sir Fret. Then I am very happy happy indeed-because the play is a short play, a remarkably short play. . . . On these occasions, the watch, you know, is the critic. . . . I assure you, the first evening 110 you can spare me three hours and a half, I'll undertake to read you the whole from beginning to end, with the prologue and epilogue, and allow time for the music between the acts. Dan. Well, Sir Fretful, I wish you may be able to get rid as easily of the newspaper criticisms as you do of ours. Sir Fret. The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous-licentious-abominable120 infernal-Not that I ever read them-no-I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. Dan. You are quite right; for it certainly must hurt an author of delicate feelings to see the liberties they take. Sir Fret. No, quite the contrary; cheir abuse is, in fact, the best panegyric-I like it of all things. An author's reputation is only in danger from their support. Sneer. Why, that's true-and that attack, now, on you the other day— Sir Fret. What? where? Dan. Ay, you mean in a paper of Thursday: it was completely ill-natured, to be sure. Sir Fret. O, so much the better.-Ha! ha ha! I wouldn't have it otherwise. Dan. Certainly it is only to be laughed at; for Sir Fret. You don't happen to recollect what the fellow said, do you? Sneer. Pray, Dangle-Sir Fretful seems a little anxious Sir Fret. O Lud, no!-anxious!—not I,not the least.-I-but one may as well hear, you know. Dan. Sneer, do you recollect? (Aside to Sneer.) Make out something. Sneer. (Aside to Dangle.) I will.—(Aloud.) Yes, yes, I remember perfectly. Sir Fret. Well, and pray now-not that it signifies-what might the gentleman say? Sneer. Why, he roundly asserts that you have not the slightest invention or original genius whatever; though you are the greatest traducer of all other authors living. Sir Fret. Ha! ha! ha!-very good! I Sneer. That as to comedy, you have not one idea of your own, he believes, even in your commonplace-book-where stray jokes and pilfered witticisms are kept with as much method as the ledger of the lost and stolen 160 office. Sir Fret. Ha! ha! ha!-very pleasant! Sneer. Nay, that you are so unlucky as not to have the skill even to steal with taste :-but that you glean from the refuse of obscure volumes, where more judicious plagiarists have been before you; so that the body of your work is a composition of dregs and sediments -like a bad tavern's worst wine. Sir Fret. Ha! ha! . Sneer. In short, that even the finest passages you steal are of no service to you; for the poverty of your own language prevents their assimilating; so that they lie on the surface like lumps of marl on a barren moor, encumbering what it is not in their power to fertilise. Sir Firet. (After great agitation.) Now, another person would be vexed at this. Sneer. O! but I wouldn't have told you, only to divert you. Sir Fret. I know it-I am diverted.-Ha! ha ha!-not the least invention!-Ha! ha! ha!-very good!-very good! Sneer. Yes-no genius! ha! ha! ha! Dan. A severe rogue! ha! ha! ha! But you 170 180 |