The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's PlaysKeightley, Thomas
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The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays
Keightley, Thomas
Drama -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
Collier's folio makes a natural and obvious correction, reading '_so_
fairly.' The usual reading is that of Steevens, a transposition of
'peeps' and 'fairly,' and I have retained it.
* * * * *
"Nothing she does or seems
But smacks of something greater than herself."
Here again the same folio makes the correction _says_ for 'seems'; yet
it is not very necessary.
* * * * *
"He tells her something
That makes her blood look on it."
This is probably the genuine text; but '_w_akes her blood. Look on it!'
the reading of Collier's folio, is very plausible. It is strange that
neither Singer nor Dyce notice this reading. They read with Theobald
'look _out_.'
* * * * *
"Pray _you_, good shepherd, what fair swain is this,
That dances with your daughter?--
They call him Doricles, and _he_ boasts himself
To have a worthy feeding. I have it but
Upon his own report, and I believe it."
Steevens, quoting passages from Drayton, explains 'feeding' in the
sense of pasture, and Mason explains 'worthy' as valuable, substantial;
but neither is convincing. I would, with Hanmer, read 'breeding:'
"A gentleman, I do assure myself,
And of a _worthy breeding_, though he hide it."
Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas, i. 1.
In reading 'I have it but' for 'but I have it' of the folio, I am
supported by Hunter and Singer.
* * * * *
"Who loves another best."
Hanmer and Mason would read '_the_ other,' and so we should say now;
but there is no need of change. It was, in fact, the language of the
time; we should still say, "they love one another."
* * * * *
"Come, buy of me, come _buy_, come buy, come buy!
Buy lads, or else your lasses cry. Come buy!"
* * * * *
"Clamour your tongues and not a word more."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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