Gav. I can no longer keep me from my lord.
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Comes forward. Edw. What, Gaveston ! welcome I Kiss not my hand —Embrace me, Gaveston, as I do thee. 140 WhyjShouldst thou kneel? know'st thou not who I am?Thy friend, thyself, another Gaveston INot Hylas was more mourned of Hercules,Than thou hast been of me since thy exile. Gav And since I went from hence, no soul in hell 145Hath felt more torment than poor Gaveston. Edw. I know it. — Brother, welcome home my friend.Now let the treacherous Mortimers conspire. 131. to float, floating. Thisnegligent use of the infinitiveis very frequent in the olddramatists. — wcmton, heed-less, trifling. In Hamlet V 2,I am afeard, you radke awanton of me, the word means*a trifler'. 132. glozing, fawning, flatte-ring; the &erman gleissen.Archbishop Trench, *Study ofWords' p. 75, moralizes onthe connexion of these wordswith ykiaaaa, but he mighthave saved himself that trouble,as they are not connectedetymologically. 136. handy 'originally a termat tennis, from bander (Fr.),of the same signification'.NARES. It would, therefore. mean *to exchange' blowswith my barons. Comp. alsothe expression *to bandywords'. In its original sense,the word occurs e. g. inthe drama 'Lust's Dominion'(wrongly ascribed to Marlowe)I 4 The cardinal would handyme away from Spain. 143. The use of the prep.of with a passive instead ofhy is archaic and, in general,poetical. 144. exiU (see v. 178. 191)is a pronunciation repeatedlyfound in Shakespeare. Themodern pronunciation is exile,and this occurs also in Sha-kesp., Coriolanus V3, 46 longa>s my exile, sweet as my re-venge.
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