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.
For 'ribaudred' Steevens and Malone read _ribald-rid_, and Tyrwhitt
_hag_ for 'nag.' There is no need of change. 'Ribaudred' is vile,
obscene; and 'nag,' like _hackney_, etc., was used of unchaste women.
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"When vantages, like a pair of twins, appear'd."
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"Hoists sails and flies.--That I beheld _myself_."
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"'Tis easy to it; and therefore I will attend."
It should perhaps be ''Tis easy _way_.'
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SC. 9. "Which has no need of you; begone, _I pray_."
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"By looking back _on_ what I have left behind."
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"Obey it on all cause.--_Oh_, pardon, pardon!"
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SC. 10. "As is the morn-dew on the myrtle-leaf
To his grand sea."
I think we should read '_morning_,' and _this_ for 'his.' It is the
adjacent Mediterranean that is meant.
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"Offers from thine invention."
The folio reads "From thine invention offers." See on Temp. iii. 1.
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SC. 11. "To lay his gay comparisons aside."
Mr. Singer and myself have both conjectured '_ca_parisons.'
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"Hear it apart.--_Here's_ none but friends; say boldly."
Hanmer also added _Here_.
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"Thus then, thou most renowned! Cæsar entreats _thee_."
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"Farther than he is Cæsar['s]."
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"And put yourself under his shroud, _who is_
The universal landlord."
Collier's folio adds _who is_.
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"Say to great Cæsar this. In disputation
I kiss his conquering hand."
Warburton's reading '_de_putation,' is not to be disputed.
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"Dissolve my life! The next Cæsarion smite!"
'Smite' is the proper correction for 'smile' of the folio. See on Hen.
V. ii. 2.
ACT IV.
SC. 1. "Enough to fetch him in. See it _be_ done."
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"Thou,--and thou,--and thou.--You have _all_ serv'd me well."
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SC. 2. "Haply you shall not see me more, or, if
_You do_, a mangled shadow."
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SC. 4. "Come, _my_ good fellow, put mine iron on."
The folio has _thine_ for 'mine'; Rowe also added _my_.
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SC. 6. "Alexas did revolt, and went to Jewry
On affairs of Antony's; there did dissuade
Great Herod to incline himself to Cæsar."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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