A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10
General
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10
English drama
[93] Perhaps we should read _quarell'd poison_; _i.e._, such poison as
arrows are imbued with. Quarels are square arrows. So in the "Romaunt
of the Rose," v. 1823--
"Ground _quarelis_ sharpe of steele."
--_Steevens._
[The two words are the same, _quarled_ being a contracted form of
_quarell'd_.]
[94] Alluding to the Fifth Commandment.--_Gilchrist._
[95] [Edits., _world's_.]
[96] [Edits., _tune_.]
[97] _i.e._, incite, encourage her.
[98] Seldom to be met with. In Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" we have
"_seld_ seen flamens."--_Steevens._
[99] [Old copy, _hire and_.]
[100] The word _great_ is added in the 4o to this line, but it belongs
to Hippolito, and what he says has been hitherto misprinted.--_Collier._
[101] ["The reality and life of this dialogue passes any scenical
illusion I ever felt. I never read it but my ears tingle, and I feel a
hot flush spread my cheeks, as if I were presently about to 'proclaim'
some such 'malefactions' of myself as the brothers here rebuke in this
unnatural parent, in words more keen and dagger-like than those which
Hamlet speaks to his mother. Such power has the passion of shame, truly
personated, not only to 'strike guilty creatures unto the soul,' but to
'appal' even those that are 'free.'"--_Lamb._]
[102] [Old copy, _lights_, and in the line before, _Sons--fights_.]
[103] [Edits., _held_.]
[104] [Edits., _see_.]
[105] [Edits., _their_.]
[106] [Edits., _not_.]
[107] The 4o reads, _Buy_.--_Steevens._
[108] Michaelmas term now has but four returns. By the Statute 16 Car.
I. c. vi. it was abridged of two; and again, by 24 Geo. II. c. xlviii.
of the like number.
[109] In secret. This uncouth expression occurs in "Hamlet," act iv.
sc. 5, which many modern editors have altered to the more modern phrase
of _in private_; but as Dr Johnson observes, "if phraseology is to be
changed as words grow uncouth by disuse, or gross by vulgarity, the
history of every language will be lost; we shall no longer have the
words of any author; and as these alterations will often be unskilfully
made, we shall in time have very little of his meaning." Mr Steevens,
by several instances, has shown that the terms were in common use, and
conveyed no low or vulgar ideas, and several others might be added: as
in Ascham's "Toxophilus," 1571: "If shootinge fault at anye time, it
hydes it not, it lurkes not in corners and _budder mother_."
[110] The 4o reads _breast_.--_Steevens._
[111] Hands.
[112] _i.e._, unsheathe them, let them be _naked_ swords.--_Steevens._
[113] [Edits., _spread_.]
[114] The 4o reads, _Well, have the fairest mark_.--_Collier._
[115] [A MS. note in one of the former edits., suggests, _to other
times leave words_].
[116] [Old copy, _possessing_.]
[117] [Old copy, _True_.]
[118] The 4o reads, _wake_.
[119] The 4o reads, _I cannot be express'd_.--_Collier._
[120] [Edits., _so_.]
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