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.
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"And comforts to your cause."
The folio reads _our_, with the usual confusion of these pronouns. The
2nd folio made the correction.
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"But Cardinal Sins and hollow hearts I fear ye'_re_."
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"Better, both for your honour and your cause."
The folio reads "Both for your honour better."
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SC. 2. "Have uncontemn'd gone by him, or at least _not_
Strangely neglected."
Here the negative is absolutely necessary.
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"May you be happy in your wish, my lord;
For I profess you have it.--Now all my joy
Trace the conjunction!"
I hesitate not to read with Collier's folio, 'Now _may_ all joy.'
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"_In_to his own hand, in his bed-chamber."
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"Was in his countenance. You he bade _then_."
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"_And_ strikes his breast hard; and anon he casts."
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"Yet filed with my abilities. Mine own ends."
The folio reads _fill'd_. I adopt the usual correction.
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"That for your Highness' good I ever labour'd
More than mine own, that am, have, and will be...."
There is an evident aposiopesis here, which the editors have not
perceived.
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"What sudden anger's this? how have I reap'd it?"
As 'reap'd' makes no sense, we might read _riped_, _raised_, or
_roused_.
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"Toward the King, my ever royal master, _I_
Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be."
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"Now, if you can, blush and cry Guilty, Cardinal."
So it should be pointed. "Then, if you can, be pale." Cymb. ii. 4.
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"Chattels and whatsoever, and to be."
The folio reads _Castles_. Theobald made the change, as Holingshed has
_cattels_. Perhaps we should read _else_ after 'whatsoever.'
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"Thou fallest a blessed martyr. Serve the King and ...
Pr'ythee lead me in," etc.
ACT IV.
"You're well met once again, _sir_.--So are you."
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"A bold brave gentleman. _And_ that should be."
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SC. 2. "One that by suggestion
Tied all the kingdom."
I do not understand 'Tied' here. Hanmer proposed _Tith'd_; the word
might also be _Tir'd_; or perhaps _task'd_. "And in the neck of that
_task'd the whole state_" (1 Hen. IV. iv. 3). We, however, meet in B.
and F.'s Four Plays in One, Triumph of Time, Sc. 1:--
"And greedy Lucre at a serious conference
Which way to _tie_ the world within their statutes."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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