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These words are in the folio given to Marcellus . Malone . the minutes of this night
; ] This seems to have been an expression common in Shakspeare's time . I find it
in one of Ford's plays , The Fancies chaste and noble , Act V : “ I promise ere ...
These words are in the folio given to Marcellus . Malone . the minutes of this night
; ] This seems to have been an expression common in Shakspeare's time . I find it
in one of Ford's plays , The Fancies chaste and noble , Act V : “ I promise ere ...
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These , and all other lines , confined within crotchets , throughout this play , are
omitted in the folio edition of 1623. The omissions leave the play sometimes
better and sometimes worse , and seem made only for the sake of abbreviation .
These , and all other lines , confined within crotchets , throughout this play , are
omitted in the folio edition of 1623. The omissions leave the play sometimes
better and sometimes worse , and seem made only for the sake of abbreviation .
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... dews of blood fell , Disasters veil'd the sun , This passage is not in the folio . By
the quartos , therefore , our imperfect text is supplied ; for an intermediate verse
being evidently lost , it were idle to attempt a union that never was in . tended .
... dews of blood fell , Disasters veil'd the sun , This passage is not in the folio . By
the quartos , therefore , our imperfect text is supplied ; for an intermediate verse
being evidently lost , it were idle to attempt a union that never was in . tended .
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The folio reads can walk . Steevens . Spirit was formerly used as a monosyllable :
sprite . The quarto , 1604 , has - dare stir abroad . Perhaps Shakspeare wrote -
no spirits dare stir abroad . The necessary correction was made in a late quarto ...
The folio reads can walk . Steevens . Spirit was formerly used as a monosyllable :
sprite . The quarto , 1604 , has - dare stir abroad . Perhaps Shakspeare wrote -
no spirits dare stir abroad . The necessary correction was made in a late quarto ...
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Malone . wrung from me my slow leave , ] These words and the two following
lines are omitted in the folio . Malone . 3 Take thy fair hour , Laertes ; time be
thine , And thy best graces : spend it at thy will . ] The sense is , You have my
leave to go ...
Malone . wrung from me my slow leave , ] These words and the two following
lines are omitted in the folio . Malone . 3 Take thy fair hour , Laertes ; time be
thine , And thy best graces : spend it at thy will . ] The sense is , You have my
leave to go ...
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Page 31 - Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Page 25 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within, which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 207 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 191 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from.
Page 142 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 31 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly— heaven and earth Must I remember? why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet within a month, Let me not think on 't; frailty thy name is woman! A little month or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body Like Niobe all tears, why she, even she — O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason...
Page 143 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them :' for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 55 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form, Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness...
Page 138 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 207 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 15 The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Isaac Reed |
| Publisher | C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Oct 2007 |
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