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(Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,")]
[Footnote 193: it] So the 4to.--Omitted in the 8vo.]
[Footnote 194: it should] So the 4to.--The 8vo "should it."]
[Footnote 195: this] So the 8vo.--The 4to "it."]
[Footnote 196: into] So the 4to.--The 8vo "vnto."]
[Footnote 197: heart] So the 4to.--The 8vo "soul."]
[Footnote 198: stoop] Qy. "stoop, STOOP"?]
[Footnote 199: your] Old eds. "their."--Compare the tenth line of the speech.]
[Footnote 200: to] So the 8vo.--The 4to "on."]
[Footnote 201: brent] i.e. burnt. So the 8vo.--The 4to "burnt."]
[Footnote 202: kings] So the 8vo.--The 4to "king."]
[Footnote 203: from] So the 4to.--The 8vo "in."]
[Footnote 204: then, for you] So the 4to.--The 8vo "for you then."]
[Footnote 205: stark nak'd] Compare (among many pa.s.sages which might be cited from our early poets),--
"rather on Nilus' mud Lay me STARK NAK'D, and let the water-flies Blow me into abhorring!"
Shakespeare's ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, act v. sc. 2. (where the modern editors print "naked.")]
[Footnote 206: dignities] So the 8vo.--The 4to "dignitie."]
[Footnote 207: whiles] So the 8vo.--The 4to "while."]
[Footnote 208: shalt] So the 4to.--The 8vo "shal."]
[Footnote 209: grace] Olds eds. "grac'd."]
[Footnote 210: stature] So the 8vo.--The 4to "statue:" but again, in the SECOND PART of this play, act ii. sc. 4, we have, according to the 8vo--
"And here will I set up her STATURE."
and, among many pa.s.sages that might be cited from our early authors, compare the following;
"The STATURES huge, of Porphyrie and costlier matters made."
Warner's ALBIONS ENGLAND, p. 303. ed. 1596.
"By them shal Isis STATURE gently stand."
Chapman's BLIND BEGGER OF ALEXANDRIA, 1598, sig. A 3.
"Was not Anubis with his long nose of gold preferred before Neptune, whose STATURE was but bra.s.se?"
Lyly's MIDAS, sig. A 2. ed. 1592.]
[Footnote 211: bird] i.e. the ibis.]
[Footnote 212: are] Old eds. "is."]
[Footnote 213: country] Old eds. "countries."]
[Footnote 214: King of Arabia] i.e. Alcidamus; see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col.
(Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,")]
[Footnote 215: Calydonian] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Calcedonian."]
[Footnote 216: l.u.s.ty] So the 8vo.--Omitted in the 4to.]
[Footnote 217: and] So the 4to.--0mitted in the 8vo.]
[Footnote 218: Renowmed] See note . p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo.
--The 4to "Renow[ned."]]
[Footnote 219: Ibis' holy name] The ibis has been already alluded to in the lines (p. 27, sec. col.),--
"The golden stature of their feather'd bird, That spreads her wings upon the city-walls";
and it is well known to have been a sacred bird among the Egyptians (see Cicero DE NAT. DEORUM, I. 36). Compare the old play of THE TAMING OF A SHREW;
"Father, I SWEARE BY IBIS' GOLDEN BEAKE, More faire and radiente is my bonie Kate Then siluer Zanthus," &c.
p. 22. ed. Shakespeare Soc.
In the pa.s.sage of our text the modern editors subst.i.tute "Isis'"
for "Ibis'."]
[Footnote 220: the] So the 8vo.--The 4to "and."]
[Footnote 221: and] So the 8vo.--Omitted in the 4to.]
[Footnote 222: thy baseness and] So the 8vo.--The 4to "THE basnesse OF."]
[Footnote 223: mask] So the 8vo.--The 4to "walke."]
[Footnote 224: My lord, &c.] Something has dropt out: qy. "TAMELY suffer"?]
[Footnote 225: a goodly refres.h.i.+ng for them] So the 8vo.--The 4to "a GOOD refres.h.i.+ng TO them."]
[Footnote 226: Here] So the 8vo.--The 4to "there."]
