The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 7 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 7 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
With the exception of '_Actus Primus. Scæna Prima_' at the beginning,
there is in the Folios no indication of a division into Act or Scene
throughout the play.
NOTE II.
I. 1. 1, 2. This conjecture of Farmer's is given from his own MS. in
the copy of Johnson's Shakespeare which belonged to him, now in the
library of Emmanuel College. In a note found in the Variorum edition,
_ad loc._, he makes a different suggestion:
'_Poet._ Good day.
_Pain._ Good day, sir: I am glad you're well.'
NOTE III.
I. 2. 1-3. We have left this corrupt passage as it stands in the
Folios. Rowe made no change. Pope altered it to:
'Most honour'd Timon, it hath pleas'd the gods
To call my father's age unto long peace.'
In this reading he was followed by Theobald, Hanmer and Warburton.
Johnson read:
'Most honour'd Timon, it hath pleas'd the Gods
To remember my father's age,
And call him to long peace.'
Capell has:
Most honour'd Timon,
'T hath pleas'd the gods in kindness to remember
My father's age, and call him to long peace.'
Steevens (1773) has:
'Most honour'd Timon, it hath pleas'd the Gods to remember
My father's age, and call him to long peace.'
In his edition of 1793 he read 'remember' for 'to remember.'
NOTE IV.
I. 2. 53-58. The Folios print Apemantus's speech as prose down to
'Timon'; then as four lines of verse:
'Heere's that which is too weake to be a sinner,
Honest water, which nere left man i' th' mire:
This &c.'
The second has 'mird' for 'mire.' The third and fourth follow the
first. Pope, whose arrangement we follow, prints as prose down to
'mire.' Capell prints the whole as verse thus:
'Flow this way!
A most brave fellow! he keeps his tides well. Timon,
Those healths will make thee, and thy state, look ill,'
following the Folios in the next four lines.
Steevens adopts this arrangement omitting 'most' in the second line.
Sidney Walker would divide the lines thus:
'Flow this way! a brave fellow!
He keeps his tides well. Timon, these healths will make
Thee, and thy state, look ill. Here's that which is
Too weak to be a sinner, honest water,
Which ne'er left man i' th' mire: &c.'
NOTE V.
I. 2. 89-91. Mr Staunton suggests that one of the two clauses 'if we
should ne'er have need of 'em' and 'should we ne'er have use for 'em'
was intended to be cancelled.
NOTE VI.
I. 2. 113-118. The first Folio, followed substantially by the rest, has:
'_Cap._ Haile to thee worthy _Timon_ and to all that of his
Bounties taste: the fiue best Sences acknowledge thee their
Patron, and come freely to gratulate thy plentious bosome.
There tast, touch all, pleas'd from thy Table rise:
They onely now come but to Feast thine eies.'
Rowe made no material alteration except that he put a comma after
'touch' in the last line but one.
Pope arranged thus:
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