A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 02
General
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 02
English drama
[114] This mode of expression occurs in Shakespeare's "Midsummer
Night's Dream," A. 3, S. 3, needlessly altered by some to, I shall
desire of you more acquaintance.--_Hawkins_.
[115] Original, _wyl_.
[116] Query, _defines_.
[117] _Wer ysought_, Copland's edition.
[118] _To_ omitted. Copland's edition.
[119] _A_, Copland's edition.
[120] _A_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[121] _For us_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[122] _She thinketh danger_, Copland's edition.
[123] These two lines I have given to Juventus against the authority of
the copies.--_Hawkins_.
[124] The entrance of Abhominable Living is not marked in the copies.--
_Hawkins_.
[125] _Opned_, Copland's edition.
[126] [This is not marked in the copies.]
[127] _Thyng_, Copland's edition.
[128] _Iou_, Copland's edition.
[129] Both the copies concur in this reading.--_Hawkins_. [A common
corruption of the Divine name.]
[130] _Horson_, Copland's edition.
[131] _Lile_, Vele's edition.
[132] _Take_, Copland's edition.
[133] _Thou_, Copland's edition.
[134] _Afsleight_, Copland's edition.
[135] This and the following line is given to Juventus in Copland's
edition.--_Hawkins_.
[136] _It were no daly_, Copland's edition.
[137] _Badi_, Copland's edition.
[138] _Mouth_, Copland's edition.
[139] _Of_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[140] _Thys_, Copland's edition.
[141] _And testament_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[142] _Profession_, Copland's edition.
[143] _Now_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[144] Both the copies read _professour.--Hawkins_.
[145] _Congregation_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[146] _Abhord utterly_, Copland's edition.
[147] _Wicked_, Copland's edition.
[148] Juventus, coming in and hearing imperfectly the words _sin_ and
_vice_, very naturally mistakes them for terms used at dice: we may
presume, therefore, that the genuine reading should be _cinque and
sice.--Hawkins_.
[149] _Cyce_, Copland's edition.
[150] _Not_ omitted, Copland's edition.
[151] [An indelicate figure, which occurs in jest-books and
other early literature.]
[152] _Shyfe_, Copland's edition.
[153] _Trape_, Copland's edition.
[154] Thus.
[155] _Complaye_, Copland's edition.
[156] _Our_, Copland's edition.
[157] _Veter_, Copland's edition.
[158] _Plasphemyng_, Copland's edition.
[159] _Trrible_, Copland's edition.
[160] _His_, Vele's edition.
[161] _Fair_, Copland's ed.
[162] _This_, Vele's edition.
[163] _Austine_, Copland's edition.
[164] _As_, Copland's edition.
[165] _Returned_, Vele's edition.
[166] _Borde_, Vele's edition.
[167] Mr Garrick's copy is imperfect, and ends at this mark.--_Hawkins_.
[168] _Mot_, Vele's edition.
[169] The following lines being torn are filled up by conjecture with
the words printed in _italics.--Hawkins_.
[170] Square.
[171] Edward VI.
[172] _Is_, Vele's edition.
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