ADR. Go fetch it, fifter.-This I wonder at, [Exit LUCIANA. That he,' unknown to me, fhould be in debt:Tell me, was he arrested on a band? 4

DRO. S. Not on a band, but on a ftronger thing; A chain, a chain; do you not hear it ring?

ADR. What, the chain?

DRO. S. No, no, the bell: 'tis time, that I were

gone.

It was two ere I left him, and now the clock ftrikes

one.

ADR. The hours come back! that did I never

hear.

DRO. S. O yes, If any hour meet a fergeant, a'turns back for very fear.

3 That he,] The original copy has-Thus he. The emendation was made by the editor of the fecond folio. MALONE.

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was he arrefted on a band?] Thus the old copy, and I believe rightly; though the modern editors read-bond. A bond, i. e. an obligatory writing to pay a fum of money, was anciently fpelt band. A band is likewife a neckcloth. On this circumftance, I believe, the humour of the paffage turns.

B. Jonfon, perfonifying the inftruments of the law, fays:

- Statute, and band, and wax fhall go with me." Again without perfonification:

"See here your mortgage, ftatute, band, and wax." Again, in Hiftriomaflix, 1610:

tye faft your lands

"In ftatute staple, or these merchant's bands."

STEEVENS.

Band is ufed in the fenfe which is couched under the words, "a ftronger thing," in our author's Venus and Adonis :

"Sometimes her arms infold him, like a band.”

See Minfheu's Dict. 1617, in v. "BAND or Obligation." In the fame column is found "A BAND or thong to tie withal." Alfo "A BAND for the neck, because it ferves to bind about the neck." Thefe fufficiently explain the equivoque. MALONE.

ADR. As if time were in debt! how fondly doft thou reafon?

DRO. S. Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's worth, to season.

Nay, he's a thief too: Have you not heard men say,
That time comes ftealing on by night and day?
If he be in debt,' and theft, and a sergeant in the

way,

Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day?

Enter LUCIANA.

ADR. Go, Dromio; there's the money, bear it ftraight;

And bring thy mafter home immediately. Come, fifter; I am prefs'd down with conceit; Conceit, my comfort, and my injury.

[Exeunt.

SCENE III.

The fame.

Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracufe.

ANT. S. There's not a man I meet, but doth salute me

As if I were their well-acquainted friend;
And every one doth call me by my name.

5 If he be in debt,] The old edition reads-If I be in debt.

STEEVENS. For the emendation now made I am anfwerable. Mr. Rowe reads-If time &c. but I could not have been confounded by the ear with time, though it might with he. MALONE.

6 conceit;] i. e. fanciful conception. So, in K. Lear: I know not how conceit may rob

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"The treasury of life." STEEVENS.

Some tender money to me, fome invite me;
Some other give me thanks for kindneffes;
Some offer me commodities to buy:

Even now a tailor call'd me in his fhop,
And show'd me filks that he had bought for me,
And, therewithal, took measure of my body.
Sure, these are but imaginary wiles,
And Lapland forcerers inhabit here.

Enter DROMIO of Syracufe.

DRO. S. Mafter, here's the gold you fent me for: What, have you got the picture of old, Adam new apparell'd?s

ANT. S. What gold is this? What Adam dost thou mean?

DRO. S. Not that Adam, that kept the paradife, but that Adam, that keeps the prison: he that goes

5 — What, have you got the picture of old Adam new apparell'd?] A fhort word or two must have flipt out here, by fome accident in copying, or at prefs; otherwife I have no conception of the meaning of the paffage. The cafe is this. Dromio's mafter had been arrested, and fent his fervant home for money to redeem him: he, running back with the money, meets the twin Antipholus, whom he mistakes for his mafter, and seeing him clear of the officer before the money was come, he cries, in a furprize;

What, have you got rid of the picture of old Adam new apparell'd? For fo I have ventured to fupply, by conjecture. But why is the officer call'd old Adam new apparell'd? The allufion is to Adam in his ftate of innocence going naked; and immediately after the fall, being cloath'd in a frock of fkins. Thus he was new apparell'd: and, in like manner, the fergeants of the Counter were formerly clad in buff, or calf's-fkin, as the author humorously a little lower calls it. THEOBALD.

The explanation is very good, but the text does not require to be amended. JOHNSON.

Thefe jefts on Adam's drefs are common among our old writers. So, in King Edward III. 1599:

"The register of all varieties

"Since leathern Adam, to this younger hour." STEEVENS.

in the calf's-fkin that was kill'd for the prodigal ; he that came behind you, fir, like an evil angel, and bid you forfake your liberty.

ANT. S. I understand thee not.

DRO. S. No? why, 'tis a plain cafe: he that went like a base-viol, in a cafe of leather; the man, fir, that, when gentlemen are tired, gives them a fob, and 'refts them; he, fir, that takes pity on decayed men, and gives 'em fuits of durance; he that fets up his reft to do more exploits with his mace, than a morris-pike."

he that fets up his reft to do more exploits with his mace, than a morris-pike.] Sets up his reft, is a phrafe taken from military exercife. When gunpowder was first invented, its force was very weak compared to that in prefent ufe. This neceffarily required fire-arms to be of an extraordinary length. As the artifts improved the strength of their powder, the foldiers proportionably fhortened their arms and artillery; fo that the cannon which Froiffart tells us was once fifty feet long, was contracted to lefs than ten. This proportion likewife held in their mufkets; fo that, till the middle of the laft century, the musketeers always fupported their pieces when they gave fire, with a reft ftuck before them into the ground, which they called setting up their reft, and is here alluded to. There is another quibbling allufion too to the ferjeant's office of arrefting. But what most wants animadverfion is the morris-pike, which is without meaning, impertinent to the sense, and falfe in the allufion : no pike being ufed amongst the dancers fo called, or at least not fam'd for much execution. In a word, Shakspeare wrote,

a Maurice-pike.

i. e. a pikeman of prince Maurice's army. He was the greatest general of that age, and the conductor of the Low-country wars against Spain, under whom all the English gentry and nobility were bred to the fervice. Hence the pikes of his army became famous for their military exploits. WARBURTON.

This conjecture is very ingenious, yet the commentator talks unneceffarily of the rest of a musket, by which he makes the hero of the fpeech fet up the rest of a musket, to do exploits with a pike. The reft of a pike was a common term, and fignified, I believe, the manner in which it was fixed to receive the ruth of the A morris-pike was a pike ufed in a morris or a military dance, and with which great exploits were done, that is, great feats of dexterity were fhown. There is no need of change. JOHNSON.

enemy.

ANT. S. What! thou mean'ft an officer?

DRO. S. Ay, fir, the sergeant of the band; he, that brings any man to answer it, that breaks his band; one that thinks a man always going to bed, and fays, God give you good rest!

ANT. S. Well, fir, there reft in your foolery. Is there any ship puts forth to-night? may we be gone?

A morris-pike is mentioned by the old writers as a formidable weapon; and therefore Dr. Warburton's notion is deficient in firft principles." Morefpikes (fays Langley in his tranflation of Polydore Virgil) were used firft in the fiege of Capua." And in Reynard's Deliverance of certain Chriftians from the Turks," the English mariners laid about them with brown bills, halberts, and morricepikes." FARMER.

Polydore Virgil does not mention morris-pikes at the fiege of Capua, though Langley's translation of him advances their antiquity fo high.

Morris pikes, or the pikes of the Moors, were excellent formerly; and fince, the Spanish pikes have been equally famous. See Hartlib's Legacy, p. 48. TOLLET.

The mention of morris-pikes is frequent among our old writers, So, in Heywood's K. Edward IV. 1626:

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Of the French were beaten down

Morris-pikes and bowmen," &c.

Again, in Holinfhed, p. 816:

they entered the gallies again with moris pikes and fought," &c. STEEVENS.

There is, I believe, no authority for Dr. Johnfon's affertion that the Morris-Pike was ufed in the Morris-dance. Swords were fometimes ufed upon that occafion. It certainly means the Moorishpike, which was very common in the 16th century. Hift. of the English Army, Vol. I. p. 135. DOUCE.

See Grofe's

The phrafe-be that fets up his reft, in this inftance, fignifies only, I believe," he that trufts"-is confident in his expectation. Thus, Bacon:-" Sea-fights have been final to the war, but this is, when Princes fet up their REST upon the battle.' Again, Clarendon-" they therefore refolved to fet up their REST upon that ftake, and to go through with it, or perifh." This figure of fpeech is certainly derived from the REST which Dr. Warburton has defcribed, as that was the only kind of reft which was ever fet up. HENLEY,