Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
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Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Interludes, English; Moralities, English
this line: I offer mine as a suggestion--"with these cursed
_caitiffs_" (34,_a_), _cayftys_ in MS.--"nigh dead in the crick"
(34,_c_), _my_ in MS.: corrected by M and B, and adopted by F,
to _ny_--"Hic, hic, hic" (34,_c_), M says a line is wanted here
rhyming with the third line lower down to complete the stanza--"a
_cepe_ coppus" (34,_d_), so in original which says M may be
intentional: he reads _cape corpus_--"give the rope just to _thy_
neck" (35,_d_), _pye_ in MS.: restored by M and B--"_He_ _is_ so
timorous" (36,_a_), _He ys ys_ in MS.--"To see your _solicitious_
face" (36,_b_), _solaycyose_ in MS.: M reads _solacyose_; B
_solicitose_--"What! ask mercy yet once again?" (36,_c_), F says
that from this point to "good perseverance" (40,_b_) the MS. is
in another hand--"my _worst_ transgression" (36,_c_), _wernt_ or
_werunt_ in MS.: F has _werst_: M has _wekit_--"dolorous _fears_"
(36,_d_), _seris_ in MS.: F has _feris_: M has _feres_; and B
suggests _sores_--"this sinful sinner to _redeem_" (36,_d_), so
in MS.: M and B suggest _reduce_ for the rhyme's sake--"_Nam
hec ... non sunt_" (36,_d_), F "notes" this passage: "Ps.
lxxvi (lxxvii, Engl.), 11, _'hæc mutatio dexteræ Excelsi_';
'_Verte impios,_ _et non erunt_'--Prov. xii. 7"--"as Himself
doth _precise_" (37,_b_), M says "_precyse_ does not rhyme: qy.
_preche_, or, as Kittredge suggests, _precysely_ _teche_"--"_Nolo
mortem, &c._" (37,_b_), "_Nolo mortem_ _impii, sed ut convertatur
impius a vita sua, et vivat_, Ezech. xxviii. 11" (F)--"he will
[be] reducible" (37,_b_), M--"Incline your capacity," etc.
(37,_d_), in MS. this line reads, "My doctrine is convenient,
Incline your capacity": the change is due to M--"as _I_ said
before" (38,_a_), _he_ in MS. (M)--"cause of great grievan_ce_"
(38,_b_), "_ge_ in MS. altered to _ce_ or _se_" (F)--"Not to
the _lowli'st_ joy" (38,_d_), F reads _holest_, and "notes" M's
query of MS. being miswritten for _loliest_ or _lest_: B also
suggests _lo[w]l[i]est_--"Scripture doth _prove_" (38,_d_),
_prewe_ in MS. and followed by F: M has _prove_--"my _suavious_
solace" (38,_d_), to B: F has _suatius_; M has _solatius_--"my
_inexcusable_ reproof" (39,_a_), so in MS.: M suggests
_inexorable_ may be better--"fantastical visions, _sedulously_
sought" (39,_b_), _sedociusly_ in MS.: the emendment is to M: B
reads _seducively_--"_Libere velle_," _etc._ (40,_a_), _Libere_
_welle liebere welle_ (Kittredge in M)--"Dominus custodi[a]t te"
(40,_b_), _custodit se_ in MS. (M)--"my _several_ patrociny"
(40,_c_), "? MS. suuerall (several, individual). Kittredge
suggests _special_" (F)--"_Search_ your conditions" (40,_c_), in
original _Serge_--"O Liber," etc. (40,_d_), see _Macro Plays_.
MAN OF ARMS (M28,_c_), a sarcasm: Mischief is loaded with fetters.
MANITORY, "my doctrine _manitory_" (M39,_b_), warning.
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