A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 05
General
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 05
English drama
FOOTNOTES:
[88] _In time the hardest flint_, &c., 1618, '23, '33.
[89] _Rule_, ditto.
[90] [Compare Watson's "Ecatompathia" (1582), Sonnet 47:
"More fierce is my sweete loue, more hard withall,
Then Beast or Birde, then Tree or stony wall."
Tyrwhitt pointed out to his friend George Steevens that the same verses
occurred in Harl. MS., 3277, and Steevens did not discover, till he
had copied them out, that the MS. was nothing more than a copy of the
"Ecatompathia," with certain variations of very little consequence.]
[91] _Marses_, 1618, '23, '33.
[92] [These lines seem to be those intended to be ridiculed by the Duke
of Buckingham in the "Rehearsal, iii. 5"--
"My legs, the emblem of my various thought," &c.]
[93] _Her_, 1618, '23, '33.
[94] _Loves_, 1623, '33.
[95] _Livings_, 1618, '23, 33.
[96] _In me in lies_, ditto.
[97] _How knowest thou that he_, 1618, '23, '33.
[98] The cross on the hilt of the sword; in times of chivalry a most
sacred oath. See "Hamlet," act i. sc. 5.
[99] _Of this_, 1618, '23, '33.
[100] This line omitted, ditto.
[101] _Sweet_, ditto.
[102] _Sets_, 1618, '23, '33.
[103] _Our_, 1633.
[104] _There on repair_, 1618, '23, '33.
[105] The editions of 1623 and 1633 read "Balthazar and Lorenzo
alone."--_Collier._
[106] _The_, 1618, '23, '33.
[107] _Leave_, ditto.
[108] _Chiefly dost thou_, ditto.
[109] _By_, 1618, '23, '33.
[110] _Our_, ditto.
[111] These lines, describing the meeting of the lovers, are, as Mr
Whalley observes, tender and natural. See "Enquiry into the Learning of
Shakespeare," 1748, p. 48.
[112] _Distressed_, 1623, '33.
[113] _Sportfull_, ditto.
[114] _Our_, 1618.
[115] _Let him_, 1633.
[116] _To command_, 1618.
[117] _Paine_, 1618, '23, '33.
[118] _Pleasures_, ditto.
[119] _Heaven hath_, 1618, '23, '33.
[120] _To record_ signified anciently to sing, as in "The Two Gentlemen
of Verona," v. 3:--
"Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,
And to the nightingale's complaining notes
Tune my distresses and record my woes."
See also Mr Steevens's note on this passage.
[121] _Return_, 1618, '23, '33.
[122] _Take her aside_ is printed as a marginal direction, 1618, '23.
'33.
[123] _Still_, omitted, ditto.
[124] _Outcry calls_, 1618, '28, '33.
[125] This line, though not mentioned, is one of those indicated by
Shakespeare in the induction to the "Taming of the Shrew," where
Sly says, "Go to thy bed, and warm thee." Thomas Randolph, in his
"Conceited Pedlar," 1630, also alludes to it: "Jeronymo rising from his
naked bed was not so good a midwife."--_Collier._
[126] _Chills_, 1618, '23, '33.
[127] _The_, ditto.
[128] _That who whilome_, 1618.
[129] _Here hath_, 1618, '23, '33.
[130] _Vile_, ditto.
[131] [The lines here inserted between brackets were Ben Jonson's
additions, made in 1601-2, and first printed in the 4to of 1602. See
"Henslowe's Diary," by Collier, pp. 201, 223, and Lamb's "Specimens,"
edit. 1854, p. 11.]
[132] _Chiefly_, 1623, '33.
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