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[Footnote 60: And made, &c.] A word dropt out from this line.]
[Footnote 61: him] i.e. the king of Natolia.]
[Footnote 62: orient] Old eds. "orientall" and "oriental."--Both in our author's FAUSTUS and in his JEW OF MALTA we have "ORIENT pearl."]
[Footnote 63: Soria] See note ?, p. 44. [i.e. note 13.]]
[Footnote 64: thereof] So the 8vo.--The 4to "heereof."]
[Footnote 65: that we vow] i.e. that which we vow. So the 8vo.--The 4to "WHAT we vow." Neither of the modern editors understanding the pa.s.sage, they printed "WE THAT vow."]
[Footnote 66: faiths] So the 8vo.--The 4to "fame."]
[Footnote 67: and religion] Old eds. "and THEIR religion."]
[Footnote 68: consummate] Old eds. "consinuate." The modern editors print "continuate," a word which occurs in Shakespeare's TIMON OF ATHENS, act i. sc. 1., but which the metre determines to be inadmissible in the present pa.s.sage.--The Revd. J. Mitford proposes "continent," in the sense of--restraining from violence.]
[Footnote 69: this] So the 8vo.--The 4to "the."]
[Footnote 70: martial] So the 4to.--The 8vo "materiall."]
[Footnote 71: our] So the 4to.--The 8vo "your."]
[Footnote 72: With] So the 4to.--The 8vo "Which."]
[Footnote 73: thy servant's] He means Sigismund. So a few lines after, "this traitor's perjury."]
[Footnote 74: discomfit] Old eds. "discomfort." (Compare the first line of the next scene.)]
[Footnote 75: lords] So the 8vo.--The 4to "lord."]
[Footnote 76: Christian] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Christians."]
[Footnote 77: Zoac.u.m] "Or ZAKk.u.m.--The description of this tree is taken from a fable in the Koran, chap. 37." Ed. 1826.]
[Footnote 78: an] So the 8vo.--The 4to "any."]
[Footnote 79: We will both watch and ward shall keep his trunk]
i.e. We will that both watch, &c. So the 4to.--The 8vo has "AND keepe."]
[Footnote 80: Uriba.s.sa, give] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Vriba.s.sa, AND giue."]
[Footnote 81: Soria] See note ?, p. 44. [i.e. note 13.]]
[Footnote 82: their] So the 4to.--Not in the 8vo.]
[Footnote 83: brows] Old eds. "bowers."]
[Footnote 84: this] So the 8vo.--The 4to "the."]
[Footnote 85: no] So the 4to.--The 8vo "not."]
[Footnote 86: and] So the 4to.--The 8vo "a."]
[Footnote 87: makes] So the 4to.--The 8vo "make."]
[Footnote 88: author] So the 4to.--The 8vo "anchor."]
[Footnote 89: yes] Old eds. "yet."]
[Footnote 90: excellence] So the 4to.--The 8vo "excellency."]
[Footnote 91: cavalieros] i.e. mounds, or elevations of earth, to lodge cannon.]
[Footnote 92: prevails] i.e. avails.]
[Footnote 93: Mausolus'] Wrong quant.i.ty.]
[Footnote 94: one] So the 8vo ("on").--The 4to "our."]
[Footnote 95: stature] See note , p. 27.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "statue."
Here the metre would be a.s.sisted by reading "statua," which is frequently found in our early writers: see my REMARKS ON MR. COLLIER'S AND MR. KNIGHT'S EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE, p. 186.
[note , from p. 27. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great):
"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 96: Soria] See note ?, p. 44. [i.e. note 13.]]
[Footnote 97: fate] So the 8vo.--The 4to "fates."]
[Footnote 98: his] Old eds. "our."]
[Footnote 99: all] So the 8vo.--Omitted in the 4to.]
[Footnote 100: honours] So the 8vo.--The 4to "honour."]
