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.
The first 'To you' was evidently caused by the second. See Introd. p.
59.
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"Would I had no being
If this salute my blood a jot. It faints me."
'Faints' is here a causative. (See Introd. p. 71.) For 'salute,' which
is used in a rather unusual connexion, Collier's folio reads _elate_,
not a Shakespearian word. We have, however, "It _greets_ me, as an
enterprise of kindness" (Peric. iv. 4), which is similar, and
"For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give _salutation_ to my sportive _blood_?"
Son. cxxi.
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SC. 4. "What friend of mine,
That had to him derived your anger, did I
Continue in my liking? Nay, gave notice
He was from thence discharg'd."
I think we should read 'gave _not_ notice.'
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"My father, King of Spain, was reckoned one
The wisest prince that there had reigned."
"For he is one the truest knight alive."
F. Q. i. 3. 37.
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"It shall be therefore bootless
That longer you desire the court. * *"
It is difficult to make any good sense of 'desire' here; and a foot
is wanting. The 4th folio, for 'desire,' reads _defer_. We might add
_deferr'd_ or _delay'd_ at the end.
* * * * *
"Sir ... I am about to weep."
This seems to be the right punctuation.
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"As you have done my truth. If he _then_ know."
* * * * *
"Where powers are your retainers; and your words,
Domestics to you, serve your will."
For 'words,' which certainly makes no sense, Tyrwhitt read _wards_. I
doubt if either be right.
* * * * *
"And marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orleans and."
For the first 'And' Pope properly read _A_, as above, i. 3.
* * * * *
"This respite shook
The bosom of my conscience."
For 'bosom' Theobald read _bottom_. In Holingshed the King's words are,
"Which words conceived within the secret _bottom of my conscience_,"
which I think settles the question. We have also, "Twill purge the
_bottoms of their consciences_" (Fletch. Span. Cur. iv. 5).
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"Yea with a splitting power, and made to tremble."
The folio has _spitting_; the correction was made in the 2nd folio.
ACT III.
SC. 1. "Seek me out, and _in_ that way I am wife in."
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"I am sorry my integrity should breed
So deep suspicion, where all faith was meant,
And service to his Majesty and you."
This transposition of the last two lines was made by Edwards, and is
right.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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