The Stratford gallery; . riest pas le coutume de France. H. Hen. Madam my interpreter, what says she? Alice. Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies ofFrance,—I cannot tell what is, baiser, en English. H. Hen. To 290 PRINCESS KATHARINE. Alice. Your majesty entendre bettre que moy. K. Men. It is uot the fashion for the maids in Franceto kiss before they are married, would she say ? Alice. Ouy, vrayment. K. Jim. O Kate, uice customs curtsy to great Kate, you and I cannot be confined within theweak list of a countrys fashion: we are the makers ofmanners, Kate; and the liber
The Stratford gallery; . riest pas le coutume de France. H. Hen. Madam my interpreter, what says she? Alice. Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies ofFrance,—I cannot tell what is, baiser, en English. H. Hen. To 290 PRINCESS KATHARINE. Alice. Your majesty entendre bettre que moy. K. Men. It is uot the fashion for the maids in Franceto kiss before they are married, would she say ? Alice. Ouy, vrayment. K. Jim. O Kate, uice customs curtsy to great Kate, you and I cannot be confined within theweak list of a countrys fashion: we are the makers ofmanners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our places,stops the mouths of all find-faults—as I will do yours,for upholding the nice fashion of your country, in deny-ing me a kiss; therefore, patiently and yielding. [A7ss-ing her.] You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate;there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them thanin the tongues of the French council; and they shouldsooner persuade Harry of England than a general peti-tion of PORTIA. This lady, daughter of Cato, and wife of Marcus Brutus, isintroduced with grateful effect in the tragedy of Jvlius Ccssar,affording relief, by her truly feminine presence, to that painfulrecord of treason, stratagems, and foul conspiracy. Portia is the just impersonation of a matron after the high Ro-man fashion,—carefully finished, and severely classic in its lightesttuches. Full of sensibility, tenderness, and all the timid flutter-ing* of her sex, she yet entertains lofty ideas of the heroic forti-tude, severe virtues, and unflinching nerve that become Catosdaughter, and the woman that Lord Brutus took to wife; andin her unavailing self-discipline to attain those stoical perfections,she presents one more example of the ineffectuality of the schoolsto divert the natural bent of the female character. For the picture of this wedded couple, at once august andtender, says Campbell, human nature, and the dignity of conju-gal faith, are indebted; it is ah
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