Juliet, iii. 5, Juliet implores her mother, "O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!" And in Troilus and Cressida, v. 2, (where we have also Ulysses addressing Troilus, "Nay, good my lord, go off"), Cressida exclaims to herself, with a less usual form of expression, "Ah! poor our sex! this fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind." p. 155: Add to note on Being so fathered and so husbanded:-It is interesting to note the germ of what we have here in The Merchant of Venice (i. 2) "Her name is Portia ; nothing undervalued The Merchant of Venice had certainly been written by 1598. - p. 156: Add to note on 217 :-I am not aware that there is any authority for the prænomen Caius, by which Ligarius is distinguished throughout the Play. p. 156: Add to note on To wear a kerchief:-In King John, iv. 1, and also in As You Like It, iv. 3 and v. 2, the word in the early editions is handkercher; and this is likewise the form in the Quarto edition of Othello. p. 159: Add to note on Their opinions of success :— Shakespeare's use of the word success may be illustrated by the following examples : "Is your blood So madly hot, that no discourse of reason, Can qualify the same?"-Troil. and Cress., ii. 2; "Commend me to my brother: soon at night I'll send him certain word of my success." "Let this be so, and doubt not but success Much Ado About Noth., iv. 1; "And so success of mischief shall be born, Second Part of Henry IV.,iv. 2; "Should you do so, my lord, My speech should fall into such vile success p. 161, after the quotation from Hamlet, add :—But this passage appears to have been struck out after the present Play was written. See Additional Note on p. 55, supra. p. 161, 1. 10 from foot; after "181" add :-So in Merchant of Venice, i. 2, Nerissa, conversing with her mistress Portia about her German suitor, the nephew of the Duke of Saxony, says, "If he should offer to choose, and choose the right casket, you should refuse to perform your father's will if you should refuse to accept him." p. 163: Add to note on To be afeard :-In The Taming of the Shrew, i. 2, we have in a single line (or two hemistichs) both senses of the verb to fear :- "Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs," says Petrucio in scorn; to which his servant Grumio rejoins, aside, "For he fears none." p. 164, 1. 5 from foot; For " 424” r. “ 426.” p. 170: Add to note on She dreamt to-night she saw my statue:-We have a rare example of the termination -tion forming a dissyllable with Shakespeare in the middle of a line in Jaques's description of the Fool, Touchstone (As You Like It, ii. 2) : "He hath strange places crammed With observation, the which he vents This may be compared with the similar prolongation of the -trance in the sublime chant of Lady Macbeth (Macbeth, i. 5): "The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements ;" or with what we have in the following line in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 4, te "And that hath dazzled my reason's light;" or with this in A Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2,— "O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom." The name Henry, in like manner, occasionally occurs as a trisyllable both in the three Parts of Henry VI., and also in Richard III. The following are examples of what is much more common, the extension or division of similar combinations at the end of a line : "The parts and graces of the wrestler." As You Like It, ii. 2; "And lasting, in her sad remembrance." Twelfth Night, i. 1; "The like of him. Know'st thou this country ?" "Which is as bad as die with tickling." Ibid., i. 3; Much Ado About Noth., iii. 1; "O, how this spring of love resembleth." Two Gent. of Ver., i. 3 ; "And these two Dromios, one in semblance." Com. of Err., i. 1 ; "These are the parents to these children."—Ibid. “Fair sir, and you my merry mistress." Tam. of Shrew, iv. 5. In other cases, however, the line must apparently be held to be a regular hemistich (or truncated verse) of nine syllables; as in "Of our dear souls. Meantime sweet sister." Twelfth Night, v. 1; "I'll follow you and tell what answer." Third Part of Henry VI., iv. 3. "Be valued 'gainst your wife's commandment." Mer. of Ven., iv. 1. Unless, indeed, in this last instance we ought not to read commandement (in four syllables), as Spenser occasionally has it; although I am not aware of the occurrence of such a form of the word elsewhere in Shakespeare. 66 p. 170, 1. 9 from foot: For "Portents, and evils” r. Portents of evils." p. 171, 1. 1: Before "Of evils" insert "246." p. 172, 1. 11 from foot: After“ advancement” add :-So in Gloster's protestation, in Rich. III., iv. 4, "Be opposite all planets of good luck To my proceeding! if with dear heart's love, I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter;" that is, to my prospering, as we should now say. p. 173: Add to note on That every like is not the same: -In the same manner as here, in Measure for Measure, v. 2, to the Duke's remark, "This is most likely," Isabella replies, "O, that it were as like as it is true." p. 174: Add to note on The heart of Brutus yearns: Shakespeare's construction of the verb yearn, in so far as it differs from that now in use, may be illustrated by the following examples: "It yearns me not if men my garments wear.' Hen. V., iv. 3; "O, how it yearned my heart, when I beheld.” This is the exclamation of the groom. So Mrs. Quickly, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 5 (speaking also, perhaps, in the style of an uneducated person), "Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it." p. 176: Add to note on With traitors do contrive :Shakespeare also at least in one place uses the word in this sense: "Please you we may contrive this afternoon." p. 183, 1. 9: For Populius r. Popilius. p. 184: Add to note on He is addressed :-The following are some examples of the employment of the word addressed by writers of the latter part of the seventeenth century :-" When Middleton came to the King in Paris, he brought with him a little Scotish vicar, who was known to the King, one Mr. Knox.... He said he was addressed from Scotland to the Lords in the Tower, who did not then know that Middleton had arrived in safety with the King;" etc.-Clarendon, Hist., Book xiii. Thereupon they [the King's friends in England] sent Harry Seymour, who, being of his Majesty's bedchamber, and having his leave to attend his own affairs in England, they well knew would be believed by the King, and, being addressed only to the Marquis of Ormond and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he might have opportunity to speak with the King privately and undiscovered," etc. -Id., Book xiv. Though the messengers who were sent were addressed only to the King himself and to the Chancellor of the Exchequer," etc.-Ibid. "Two gentlemen of Kent came to Windsor the morning after the Prince [of Orange] came thither. They were addressed to me. And they told me,” etc.—Burnet, Own Time, I. 799. 66 p. 186, 1. 7 from foot: For "courtesies” r. "curt'sies." p. 191, 1. 2; For "printed in 1600” r. "first printed in 1595"; and l. 5, for "printed the same year" r. "printed in 1600;" and 1. 6, before" contemporary" insert" nearly." p. 192; in note on And let no man abide, etc. :—After the quotation from A Midsummer Night's Dream, add :And in the same scene, a little before, "Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear ;" and, a little after, "Thou shalt 'by this dear." p. 193; in note on As it were Doomsday, after “ as in condemno" add :-But the name Dempster in Scotland also designated a species of judge. The Dempsters of Caraldstone in Forfarshire were so called as being here |