The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
II. 2. 22. This misprint of Theobald's was repeated in every edition,
except those of Hanmer and Capell, down to that of Harness, 1825,
inclusive. Mr Knight made the necessary correction. We have left
unnoticed many similar instances.
NOTE V.
II. 3. 74. Mr Dyce suggests that the reading 'sate' of the Quarto was a
mistake for 'rates.'
NOTE VI.
II. 3. 130-133. Both the Quarto and the Folios put a full stop at
_report_, a colon at _war_, and a full stop or colon at _giant_: a
punctuation which was followed substantially by Rowe and Pope. Theobald
first put a comma at _report_ and inverted commas before _Bring_,
forgetting, however, to mark the end of the quotation. Hanmer printed
the line _Bring ... war_ in italics, and Johnson put the whole passage
_Bring ... giant_ in inverted commas. Subsequent editors have followed
him in marking the quotation thus. We have done the like, though with
some doubt as to whether Hanmer's view be not preferable.
NOTE VII.
II. 3. 187, sqq. Rowe, in this passage, followed the Folios. Pope, too,
left the preposterously long line '(As amply titled, as Achilles is,)
by going to Achilles:' but in the following, altered 'fat already,
pride' to 'pride, already fat.' Theobald followed Pope.
Hanmer reads:
'As amply titled as Achilles' is,
By going to Achilles: for that were
But to inlard his pride, already fat.'
Johnson first adopted the reading and arrangement given in the
text, followed by Capell, except that the latter gave, like Hanmer,
_Achilles'_ (with an apostrophe) in the first line.
NOTE VIII.
III. 2. 21. Capell's copy of the Quarto has distinctly 'repured,'
though Capell, usually so accurate in his collation, omitted to notice
that it differed from the Folio. The same is the reading of the copy
in the Duke of Devonshire's Library, and of two copies in the British
Museum, one of which formerly belonged to Steevens.
Steevens's reprint has 'reputed'--an error which seems to have been
the source of the statement that some copies of the Quarto have that
reading.
NOTE IX.
III. 3. 120. In Capell's copy of the Quarto there are traces of what
appeared to us at first to be an imperfect letter at the end of the
word 'reuerb'rate.' On referring, however, to the Duke of Devonshire's
copy, and to the two in the British Museum, we are inclined to believe
that the apparently imperfect letter is in reality a lead.
NOTE X.
III. 3. 123-128. The Quarto has,
'I was much rap't in this,
And apprehended here immediately,
Th' vnknowne _Aiax_, heauens what a man is there?
A very horse, that has he knowes not what
Nature what things there are.
Most obiect in regard, and deere in vse,' &c.
The first Folio gives,
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