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.
"Came on refresh'd, new-aided, and encourag'd."
The reading of the folio is 'added.' Both Singer and Dyce agree in the
correction.
ACT V.
SC. 1. "_You_ flatterers! Now, Brutus, thank thyself."
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"This is my birthday; as this very day."
For 'as' we should, I think, read _at_, as I have done.
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SC. 2. "And sudden push gives them the overthrow."
It might be better to read 'And _a_,' or rather _A_. See on Temp. i. 2.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.
ACT I.
SC. 1. "To weep; whose every passion fully strives."
The 1st folio reads 'who'; the correction was made in the 2nd.
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SC. 2. "Must change his horns with garlands."
Both Southern and Warburton read _charge_.
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"And, fertile every wish, a million."
Warburton's correction of 'foretel' of the folio.
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"Saw you my lord?--No, lady."
So 2nd folio; the 1st has _Save_.
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"Extended Asia from Euphrates, _and_
His conquering banners shook from Syria."
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"Antony thou would'st say.--Oh, _no_, my lord."
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"Oh! then we bring forth weeds
When our quick minds lie still, and our ills told us
Is as our earing."
'Minds' is Warburton's correction of 'winds.' This confusion of _m_ and
_w_ is not unusual. In King John (v. 7) we have, "And the siege is now
against the _wind_;" and in Cymb. (ii. 4) "Now _w_ingled with their
courages."
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"And get her love to part."
The usual correction, _leave_, is right. Two Gent. i. 1.
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SC. 3. "Tempt him not so too far. I wish forbear."
'Wish' here signifies recommend, advise. I think we should read 'wish
_you_,' as it is always followed by its object when used in this sense.
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SC. 4. "One great competitor."
The proper word is _Our_. See on Cor. iii. 1.
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"Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones
Call on him for it."
Collier's folio reads _Fall_. I agree with it.
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"As we rate boys; who being mature in knowledge."
I read '_im_mature,' for the negative is required.
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"And the ebb'd man, ne'er lov'd till ne'er worth love,
Comes fear'd by being lack'd."
Warburton, who has been generally followed, made the correction
_dear'd_. But there is no such verb. I read _dear_. "I shall be lov'd
when I am lack'd" (Cor. iv. 1). _Come_ for _became_ occurs also in "so
_came_ I a widow" (2 Hen. IV. ii. 3).
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"Goes to and back lacking the varying tide."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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