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 proper word of course is _feel_, not 'see'; but the text may be
right. We have elsewhere, "I see it feelingly." We might also read _by_
for 'in.'
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"Sirrah, _thou_ naked fellow!"
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SC. 2. "It will come _that_ humanity must perforce."
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"With plumed helm thy slayer begins _his_ threats."
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"But _she_ being widow, and my Gloster with her."
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SC. 3. "Ay, sir, she took them, read them in my presence."
The original is _I so_. Theobald made the change.
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"Not to a rage; Patience and Sorrow strove."
Pope gave 'strove' for the original _streme_.
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"You might have seen
Sunshine and rain at once ... her smiles and tears
Were like it--a better way."
For 'way' Theobald read _May_. Warburton proposed _wetter May_.
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"'Tis so they are afoot."
We should, with Warburton, read _said_ not 'so.'
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SC. 6. "Pull off my boots; _pull_ harder, harder; so!"
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"Who by the art of known and feeling sorrow."
We should certainly read _knowing_.
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"Got 'tween the lawful sheets."
We might supply '_were unto me_.'
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"What! with the case of eyes?"
With Rowe I read _this_. Case is pair.
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"Your eyes are in a heavy case, your purse in a light _one_."
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SC. 7. "Madam _he_ sleeps still."
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"Be so good, madam, when we do awake him."
The folio has "Madam, be so good."
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"Fourscore and upward [not an hour more or less] and to deal
plainly _with you_."
I agree with the 4tos, and with the more judicious critics, in omitting
the bracketted words. (See on Ham. iii. 1. v. 2.) The addition seems
requisite.
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"To make him even _go_ o'er the time he has lost."
The poet's word may not have been _go_, but a verb is lost. Its place
may have been taken by 'even.'
ACT V.
SC. 1. "_Yet_ I am doubtful that you have been conjunct."
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SC. 3. "_But_ if it be man's work I'll do it."
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"And Fortune led you well. You have the_m_ captives."
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"Make instruments to plague us * * *"
We might add '_in their time_.'
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"As he'd burst heaven, threw me on my father."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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