. Illustrations of Shakespeare and of ancient manners : with dissertations on the clowns and fools of Shakespeare ; on the collection of popular tales entitled Gesta Romanorum, and on the English Morris dance. 394 ILLUSTRATIONS OF ACT III. Scene 2. Page 498. 1. Gent. Or tie my treasure up in silken bags,To please the fool and death. The notes on this passage having got into some littleconfusion by the introduction of the lines in Measure formeasure which relate to the fool and death and the supple-mental remarks on it, it will be necessary in all future edi-tions to keep them sepa
. Illustrations of Shakespeare and of ancient manners : with dissertations on the clowns and fools of Shakespeare ; on the collection of popular tales entitled Gesta Romanorum, and on the English Morris dance. 394 ILLUSTRATIONS OF ACT III. Scene 2. Page 498. 1. Gent. Or tie my treasure up in silken bags,To please the fool and death. The notes on this passage having got into some littleconfusion by the introduction of the lines in Measure formeasure which relate to the fool and death and the supple-mental remarks on it, it will be necessary in all future edi-tions to keep them separate, as it seems almost certain thatthey have no connection with each other. Cerimon in most express terms declares that he feelsmore real satisfaction in his liberal employment as a physi-cian, than he should in the uncertain pursuit of honour, orin the mere accumulation of wealth; which would assimilatehim to a miser, the result of whose labour is merely to enter-tain the fool and death. But how was such amusement asthis to affect those personages in the other instance, wherethe vain attempts of a fool to escape the jaws of his adversaryform the whole of the subject ? The allusion therefore is tosome such print as Mr. Steevens happi
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