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.
"Derive some pain from you. Plague all _of them_."
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"Men daily find it _so_. Get thee away."
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"Teems and feeds all; whose self-same _forming_ metal."
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"Yield him who all the human sons doth hate."
Here again, as so often, we have 'the' for _thy_.
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"Dry up thy marrows, vines, and plough-torn leas."
For 'marrows' Mr. Dyce reads 'marrow_y_,' Collier's folio _meadows_. I
read _married_ sc. to the elms, etc. The marriage of the elm and the
vine is noticed in Com. of Errors, ii. 2, Cymb. i. 7.
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"Whereof ungrateful man, with liquorish draughts,
And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind."
As 'pure' is rather an odd expression in the mouth of Timon, we should
perhaps read '_im_pure.' The negative is often thus omitted. See on
Com. of Err. ii. 2.
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"From change of fortune. Why this spade? this place?"
The folio has 'change of future'; the correction was made independently
by Southern and Rowe.
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"Will these moist trees
That have outliv'd the eagle."
Hanmer's emendation of _moss'd_ for 'moist' has been generally and
justly received.
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"Willing misery
Outlives incertain pomp, is crown'd before _it_."
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"At duty, more than I could frame employment;"
There is evidently a line lost here.
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"If thou wilt curse thy father, that poor rag."
For 'rag' Johnson read _rogue_, which is also in Singer's folio, and is
probably right, as he afterwards terms him "poor rogue hereditary."
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"First mend my company. Take thyself away."
The folio reads _thy_ for 'my.'
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"'Twixt natural son and sire."
The folio reads _sun and fire_.
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"Do villainy, do, since you profess to do it."
The reading of the folio is 'protest,' and also 'villain.'
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"Break open shops; _for_ nothing can you steal
But thieves do lose it. Steal _not the_ less for this."
Rowe also added _not_, which was indispensable.
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"It almost turns my dangerous nature wild."
The context plainly shows that for 'wild' we should, with Warburton,
read _mild_.
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"No more I pray _you_--and, he is a steward."
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"If not a usuring kindness, and, as rich men deal gifts."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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