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.
SC. 4. "For where there is advantage to be given
Both more and less have given him the revolt."
The 'given' of the first line was produced, in the usual way, by that
of the second. I read _taken_.
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SC. 5. "Hang out our banners! On the outward walls
The cry is still _They come!_"
So I think we should punctuate. It was from the keep, not the walls,
that the banner (as perhaps we should read) was hung. We have, no
doubt, "Advance our waving colours on the walls" (1 Hen. VI. i. 6); but
Orleans was a city, not a mere castle.
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"The time has been my senses would have cool'd."
Collier's folio, which I follow, reads _quail'd_ for 'cool'd.' "That so
to see him made her heart to quail." F. Q. iv. 3, 46.
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"Gracious my lord, I shall report that which [I say]
I saw, but know not how to do't.--Well, say, sir."
'I say' is needless, and spoils the measure. It arose from 'say' in the
next line.
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SC. 7. "Seems _to be_ bruited. Let me find him, Fortune."
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"I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl."
I may observe that 'pearl' is here a collective term--a singular, with
a plural sense. This word was often so used.
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"We shall not spend a large expense of time."
With Singer, I read _make_ for 'spend.'
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.
ACT I.
_Prol._ "To Tenedos they come."
This should be a single line, and is a sort of proof that the Prologue
is by Shakespeare (see Introd. p. 82). N.B.--In the beginning of the
Address prefixed to this play I read '_that_ brain' for "your brain."
See Introd. p. 68.
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SC. 1. "I have--as when the sun doth light a storm."
Rowe's correction of _scorn_ of the 4tos and folio.
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SC. 2. "What were you talking of when I came _up_?"
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"_In his right_ condition, I had gone barefoot to India."
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"Hector shall not have his wit this year."
Rowe's correction again, 'wit,' for _will_.
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"So, traitor!--when she comes!--when is she thence?"
This is Rowe's correction of "So, traitor, then she comes, when she is
thence?"
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"And a proper man of _his_ person."
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"Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice."
For 'gifts' the Var. edit. has _griefs_.
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"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing."
For 'lies' Mason read, and perhaps with reason, _flies_. We might, but
less probably, conjecture _dies_.
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Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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