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.
It is strange that the editors have not seen that _Reg._ is out of
place. It belongs to the third line. (See on Hen. V. i. 1.) In her
usual forward impatient manner she takes, as we say, the words out of
Cornwall's mouth. There is evidently a line lost after the fourth. We
might read "Have been the cause of this our sudden visit."
* * * * *
SC. 2. "Knowing nought _else_, like dogs, but following."
* * * * *
"Smile you _at_ my speeches, as I were a fool?"
* * * * *
SC. 4. "They have travell'd hard to-night. Mere fetches _these_."
* * * * *
"For the sound man.--Death on my state!
Wherefore should he sit here? This act persuades me."
This is the proper arrangement.
* * * * *
"Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give
Thee o'er to harshness."
Neither _hefted_ nor _hested_, the other reading, makes sense; the
conjecture _hearted_ may, then, be right.
* * * * *
"To wage _war_ against the enmity of the air."
* * * * *
"You heavens, give me that patience [patience] I need."
Malone made the same omission.
* * * * *
"_He_ hath put himself from rest, and must needs taste his folly."
ACT III.
SC. 1. "Who have--as who have not, that their great stars _have_?"
* * * * *
SC. 4. "Hast thou _too_ given all unto thy daughters?"
* * * * *
"Dolphin, my boy, my boy!
Cessè, let him trot by."
As these seem to be the words of the French King to his son in a ballad
quoted by Steevens, I have given the French _cesse_ instead of the
Spanish _cesa_ for the _cease_ of the 4tos, _sessy_ of the folio.
* * * * *
"Child Rowland to the dark tower came."
Capell saw that a line was wanting here; for what follows must be the
words of the Giant. He would read with the 4tos _come_; but there was
no necessity, for in these ballads the first and third lines rarely
rimed. The lost line may have been something like this: "The Giant saw
him, and out he ran."
* * * * *
SC. 6. "A horse's heels," etc.
The originals read _health_, which is wrong beyond question, as is
proved by the proverb in Fordun and Ray, cited by the critics.
* * * * *
"What store her heart is made of."
'Store' an obvious error for _stone_.
* * * * *
"This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken sinews."
For 'sinews' Theobald read _senses_, which has been generally received,
but perhaps without necessity.
ACT IV.
SC. 1. "Might I but live to see thee in my touch I'd say I had eyes
again."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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