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
'I was much rapt in this,
And apprehended here immediately:
The vnknowne _Aiax_;
Heauens what a man is there? a very Horse,
That has he knowes not what. Nature, what things there are.
Most abiect in regard, and deare in vse.'
The later Folios omitted the stop between 'what' and 'Nature,' which
misled Rowe, who in his first edition read:
'That as he knows not Nature, what things are' &c.
Pope read,
'I was much rapt in this,
And apprehended here immediately
The unknown _Ajax_----
Heav'ns! what a man is there? a very horse,
He knows not his own nature: what things are
Most abject in regard, and dear in use?'
Hanmer reconstructed the whole passage, thus:
'I was much rapt
In this I read, and apprehended here
Immediately the unknown _Ajax_: heavens!
What a man's there? a very horse, that has
He knows not what: in nature what things there are
Most abject in regard, and dear in use.'
NOTE XI.
IV. 4. 74-77. The Quarto here reads:
'Here why I speake it loue,
The Grecian youths are full of quality,
And swelling ore with arts and exercise:'
The first Folio has:
'Heare why I speake it; Loue:
The Grecian youths are full of qualitie,
Their louing well compos'd, with guift of nature,
Flawing and swelling ore with Arts and exercise:'
The second Folio has the same except that it substitutes 'Flowing' for
'Flawing.' The third and fourth have substantially the same reading as
the second.
Rowe edited it thus:
'Hear while I speak it, Love:
The _Grecian_ Youths are full of subtle Qualities,
They're loving, well compos'd, with gift of Nature,
Flowing and swelling o'er with Arts and Exercise;'
Pope followed Rowe, with a difference of punctuation:
'... with gift of Nature
Flowing,' &c.
Theobald followed Pope, except that he restored 'why' for 'while' in
the first line, and Warburton Theobald, reading 'gifts' for 'gift.'
Johnson followed Warburton, except that in place of 'qualities' he
restored 'quality.'
Hanmer has:
'Hear why I speak it, love: the _Grecian_ youths
Are full of subtle qualities, they're loving,
They're well compos'd, with gifts of nature flowing,
And swelling o'er with arts and exercise.'
Capell thus:
'Hear why I speak it, love: The Grecian youths
Are well compos'd, with gifts of nature flowing,
And swelling o'er with arts and exercise:'
Malone reads:
'Hear why I speak it, love;
The Grecian youths are full of quality;
They're loving, well compos'd, with gifts of nature flowing,
And swelling o'er with arts and exercise;'
Mr Knight and Mr Collier give the reading of the second and following
Folios, only striking out the comma after 'compos'd.'
Mr Grant White:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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