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...G CHAPTER XV. « *. Merciful Heaven! Tiiou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous boit r JSplilt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, His glassy essence—like an angry ape, As...

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...mentioned here. CHAPTER XV. " Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle ! O, but man ! proud man ! Brest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence —...

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...is Orleans from the English." i * In Measure for Measure we find these lines : " Merciful heaven ! " Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, "...unwedgeable and gnarled oak, " Than the soft myrtle; — But man, proud man," &c. There can be no doubt that a word was omitted in the last line ; perhaps...

...future commentator, though I am unable to apply it with success to the very difficult line before us: " Drest in a little brief authority, " Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, " His glassy essence." STEEVENS. A proper punctuation, with the addition of a single letter, will make this passage clear...

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