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SHAKESPEARIANA.
- ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA,' III. x. 10
" RIBAUDRED NAGGE." In this scene, where Scams, when describing the flight of Cleo- patra from the sea-fight off Actium, is repre- sented in the Folios as speaking of her as rthe " ribaudred Nagge "- -" ribauldred Nag" of Egypt, no emendation that I am aware of has been suggested which can be pro- nounced either probable or tolerable. It is not to be supposed that Shakespeare, in one and the same sentence, would have compared the Egyptian queen first to a nag, and then to a cow. That there is something wrong here we may be certain. I have no fault to find with ribaldred, provided I may "be allowed to chop off from it its last syllable Ribald loose, licentious Cleopatra was, without question. Nagge is the naughty word. What are we to make of it ? I con- ceive that, either through an error on the part of a copyist or printer, or possibly through the mouthing of an actor, it has got detached from its first syllable, which has been tacked on to ribald. I will unite them once more, and in the word thus formed I think we shall have almost all the
etters we require, though not all of them
n their proper places. Briefly, in red-nagge
[ distinctly see renegade, ren-gade, so that
- he whole passage will stand thus :
Yon ribald ren'gade of Egypt ^Vhom leprosy o'ertake ! i' the midst of the fight, When vantage like a pair of twins appeared, Both as the same, or rather ours the elder The breese upon her, like a cow in June ! Hoists sails and flies.
And so I am confident that Shakespeare wrote. THE AUTHOR OF
' HARD KNOTS IN SHAKESPEARE.' [For other emendations see 9 S. iii. 362, 422; iv. 141, 221.]
OVID AND SHAKESPEARE. Some little time ago Prof. Sonnenschein called attention to resemblances between the famous lines in ' The Merchant of Venice ' (IV. i. 184 sqq.),
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, &c. and some passages in Seneca's ' De de- mentia.' But the following from Ovid's ' Pontic Epistles ' (II. ix. 11 sqq.) have not, I think, been noticed, and they will be found to contain perhaps more striking resem- blances :
Regia, crede mihi, res est succurrere lapsis,
Convenit et tanto, quantus es ipse, yiro. Fortunam decet hoc istam ; quse maxima cum sit,
Esse potest animo vix tamen sequa tuo. Conspicitur numquam meliore potentia causa,
Quam quotiens vanas non sinit esse preces. Hoc nitor iste tui generis desiderat ; hoc est
A superis ortse nobilitatis opus
Hoc tecum commune deo, quod uterque rogati
Supplicibus vestris ferre soletis opem
Utilitas igitur magnos hominesque deosque
Efficit, auxiliis quoque favente suis
And there is more in the context.
I may add that the Ovidian couplet (' Fasti,' iv. 434),
Prseda puellares animos prolectat inanis,
Et non sentitur sedulitate labor, throws some light on the obscure reading in ' The Tempest ' (III. i. 14, 15) :
But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my
labours, Most busy lest, when I do it.
MORTON LUCE.
' LOVE'S LABOUR 's LOST,' V. i. 37-46 :
Arm. Men of peace, well encountered.
Hoi. Most military sir, salutation.
Moth . (A ide to Costard )
Cost. .....
Moth. Peace ! the peal begins. In mock recognition of the peculiar form of the exchange of courtesies between Armado and Holofernes, Moth, I believe, instead of the meaningless " peale " of the old copies, uses the word parle.
E. MERTON DEY.
