Notes and Queries, Number 200, August 27, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 200, August 27, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
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Besides these nine verbatim coincidences, the following four are very
approximate.
_Taming of the Shrew_, Induction, Sc. 2:
Folios.--"And when he says he is, say that he dreams."
Collier MS.--"When he says _what_ he is, say that he
dreams."--_Notes and Emendations_, p. 142.
Jackson.--"And what he says he is, say that he
dreams."--_Restorations and Illustrations_, p. 114.
_Taming of the Shrew_, Act II. Sc. 1.:
Folios.--"No such jade, _Sir_, as you, if me you mean."
Collier MS.--"No such jade _to bear_ you, if me you
mean."--_Notes and Emendations_, p. 147.
Jackson.--"No such jade as you,--_bear!_ if me you
mean."--_Restorations and Illustrations_, p. 119.
_1 Henry VI._, Act V. Sc. 3.:
Folios.--"Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses _rough_."
Collier MS.--"Confounds the tongue, and _mocks_ the _sense of
touch_."--_Notes and Emendations_, p. 276.
Jackson.--"Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses
_touch_."--_Restorations and Illustrations_, p. 233.
_Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 4.:
Folios.-- ... "Some jay of Italy, _Whose mother was her_
painting, hath betray'd him."
Collier MS.--"Who _smothers her with painting_, hath betray'd
him."--_Notes and Emendations_, p. 495.
Jackson.--"Who _smoother_ was: her painting hath betray'd
him."--_Restorations and Illustrations_, p. 375.
Besides these four emendations, which at any rate are very suggestive
of those in Mr. Collier's folio, I beg to call attention to Jackson's
defence of Theobald's (and his own) proposition to read _untread_ for
_unthread_, in _King John_, Act V. Sc. 4., which is strikingly like
Mr. Collier's defence of the same reading in the margin of the Folio
1632. {194} The whole of Jackson's notes on _King John_ are well worth
reading. I beg to mention two of these, as illustrations of old Jackson's
acuteness, when not under the warping influence of the _cacoëthes
emendandi_. His defence of _untrimmed bride_, in Act II. Sc. 1., is most
convincing. He says,--
"Constance stimulates [Lewis] to stand fast to his purpose,
and not to let the devil tempt him, in the likeness of an
_untrimmed_ bride, to waver in his determination; for that the
influence of the Holy See would strip King John of his present
royalty. Where then would be the great dowry Lewis was to
receive with his wife? At present he has only the _promise_ of
five provinces, and 30,000 marks of English coin; therefore as
the dowry has not been paid, Blanche is still an _untrimmed_
bride."--_Recollections and Illustrations_, p. 179.
His note on the use of _invisible_, in Act V. Sc. 7., is also excellent:
"Death having prayed upon the reduced body of the king, quits
it, and now _invisible_, has laid siege to the mind."
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