A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 07
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 07
English drama
[39] [In creeping thorough all her veins within,
That she thereby shall raise much ruth and woe.--MS.]
[40] [This, and the five preceding lines, are not in the MSS.]
[41] [Lo, this before your eyes so will I show,
That ye shall justly say with one accord
We must relent and yield; for now we know
Love rules the world, love only is the lord.--MS.]
[42] [Hath taught me plain to know our state's unrest.--MS.]
[43] [O mighty Jove, O heavens and heavenly powers.--MS.]
[44] [This, and the next line, do not occur in the MSS.]
[45] [Thy sprite, I know, doth linger hereabout
And looks that I, poor wretch, should after come;
I would, God wot, my lord, if so I mought:
But yet abide, I may perhaps devise
Some way to be unburdened of my life,
And with my ghost approach thee in some wise
To do therein the duty of a wife.--MS.]
[46] These omissions are frequent in our old plays. See note on "Love's
Labour Lost," edit. of Shakspeare, 1778, vol. ii. p. 410.--_Steevens_.
[47] In this manner the word was formerly accented. See Dr Farmer's
"Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare."
[48] Go. So in Epilogue--
"With violent hands he that his life doth end,
His damned soul to endless night doth _wend_."
Again, in the "Return from Parnassus," 1600, act v. sc. 4--
"These my companions still with me must _wend_."
In "George a Green Pinner of Wakefield," [Dyce's "Greene and Peele,"
1861, p. 259, &c.]--
"Wilt thou leave Wakefield and _wend_ with me ...
So will I _wend_ with Robin all along ...
For you are wrong, and may not _wend_ this way."
And in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," Prologue, line 19--
"Byfel, that, on that sesoun on a day,
In Southwerk at the Tabbard as I lay,
Redy to _wenden_ on my pilgrimage,
To Canturbury with ful devout corage."
[49] Alexander.
[50] Hector.
[51] _Euripus Euboicus_, or _Chalcidicus_, is a narrow passage of sea
dividing _Attica_ and the Island of _Euboea_, now called the _Gulf of
Negropont_. It ebbs and flows seven times every day: the reason of
which, it is said, when Aristotle could not find, he threw himself into
the sea with these words: _Quia ego non capio te, tu capias me_. Sir
Thomas Brown, in his "Enquiries into Vulgar Errors," b. vii. c. 14,
appears to have been not satisfied with this account of Aristotle's
death, which he has taken some pains to render doubtful.
[52] [Go]. So act ii. sc. 3--
"Therefore my counsel is you shall not stir,
Nor farther _wade_ in such a case as this,"
And in Turbervile's "Tragical Tales," 1587--
"Eare thou doe _wade_ so farre, revoke to minde the bedlam boy.
That in his forged wings of waxe reposed too great a joy."
[53] _Sadly_, in most of our ancient writers, is used as here for
_seriously_. So in Nash's "Lenten Stuff," 1599: "Nay, I will lay no
wagers, for, now I perponder more _sadly_ upon it, I think I am out
indeed."
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