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Page 71
... . The quartos and folios read ' loue . ' In support of the correction Malone refers to a very parallel passage in Venus and Adonis , 1136-1140 : ። 1 6 Sorrow on love hereafter shall attend : It SC . I. ] 71 A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
... . The quartos and folios read ' loue . ' In support of the correction Malone refers to a very parallel passage in Venus and Adonis , 1136-1140 : ። 1 6 Sorrow on love hereafter shall attend : It SC . I. ] 71 A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
Page 79
... Malone : The twelue labors of Hercules haue I terribly thundred on the stage . ' The verses recited by Bottom may be a quotation from such a play . < 25. to tear a cat in , 10 rant violently . Steevens refers to Middleton's Roaring Girl ...
... Malone : The twelue labors of Hercules haue I terribly thundred on the stage . ' The verses recited by Bottom may be a quotation from such a play . < 25. to tear a cat in , 10 rant violently . Steevens refers to Middleton's Roaring Girl ...
Page 81
... Malone explains it , To meet , whether bowstrings hold or are cut , is to meet in all events . ' To break one's bowstrings ' was a phrase denoting the giving up of anything that was in hand . Steevens quotes from The Ball , a play by ...
... Malone explains it , To meet , whether bowstrings hold or are cut , is to meet in all events . ' To break one's bowstrings ' was a phrase denoting the giving up of anything that was in hand . Steevens quotes from The Ball , a play by ...
Page 90
... Malone quotes Sonnet xii . 8 : ' And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard . ' 97. fatted , fattened . Compare Hamlet , ii . 2. 607 : ' I should have fatted all the region kites With this ...
... Malone quotes Sonnet xii . 8 : ' And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard . ' 97. fatted , fattened . Compare Hamlet , ii . 2. 607 : ' I should have fatted all the region kites With this ...
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... Malone explains by ' those sports with which country people are wont to beguile a winter's evening , at the season of Christmas , which , it appears from the next line , was particularly in our author's contemplation . ' For ' here ...
... Malone explains by ' those sports with which country people are wont to beguile a winter's evening , at the season of Christmas , which , it appears from the next line , was particularly in our author's contemplation . ' For ' here ...
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