The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
[358] _thrown_] _thrust_ Theobald.
[360, 361] _remember? 'Madam, why_] Malone (Tyrwhitt conj.).
_remember, Madam, why_ Ff. _remember, Madam,--'why_ Theobald.
[362] _an_] Pope. _and_ Ff.
_whirligig_] Capell. _whirlegigge_ F1. _whirle-gigge_ F2 F3.
_whirl-gigg_ F4.
[364] [Exit.] Rowe.
[368] _convents_] _consents_ Steevens conj. _convenes_ Anon. MS. apud
Halliwell.
[370] _Meantime_] _In the mean time_ Hanmer.
[374] [Exeunt...] Dyce and Staunton. Exeunt. Ff.
[375-394] Farmer would omit as spurious.
[375] _and_] _an_ Theobald.
_tiny_] Rowe (ed. 2). _tine_ Ff.
[381] _knaves and thieves_] _knave and thief_ Steevens (Farmer conj.).
[387-389] _beds ... heads_] Ff. _bed ... head_ Hanmer.
[389] _toss-pots_] _tospottes_ F1.
_still had_] _I had_ Hanmer. _still I had_ Collier.
_drunken_] _broken_ Anon. conj.
[391] _begun_] Rowe. _begon_ F1 F2. _be gon_ F3. _be gone_ F4.
[392] _With hey, ho_] F2 F3 F4. _hey, ho_ F1.
[394] [Exit.] Rowe. om. Ff.
NOTES.
NOTE I.
In our enumeration of the Dramatis Personæ we have omitted what Johnson
calls 'the cant of the modern stage,' i.e. the unnecessary descriptions
given by Rowe.
NOTE II.
I. I. 26. Mr Knight reads 'years' heat,' but follows Malone in
interpreting 'heat' as a participle. It is more probably a substantive.
NOTE III.
I. 3. 48. Sidney Walker supposed that as the first Folio has no stop
after 'acquaintance' it was intended that the sentence should be
regarded as incomplete, and he therefore would read 'acquaintance--'.
The real reason of the omission of the stop in F1 is that the word
occurs so near the end of the line that there was no room for its
insertion. It is found in all the other Folios.
NOTE IV.
I. 5. 192. Mr Dyce conjectures that something more than the speaker's
name has been omitted in the Folios before 'Tell me your mind.' Capell
proposed to omit these words, on the ground that, in addition to other
objections against them, they cause the speech to end metrically. We
leave the text undisturbed, because we think that there is some
corruption which Hanmer's plausible emendation does not remove.
NOTE V.
I. 5. 237. Sidney Walker conjectures that 'a word or words are lost
before _adorations_, involving the same metaphor as the rest of the two
lines.' Perhaps the lost word may have been 'earthward' or 'earthly,' so
that all the four elements 'of which our life consists' (II. 3. 9) would
be represented in the symptoms of Orsino's passion.
NOTE VI.
II. 2. 30. Johnson would transpose lines 28 and 29, and retain the
reading of the Folios 'if':
'For such as we are made, if such we be,
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we.'
NOTE VII.
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