ditary judges to the great Abbey of Aberbrothock. Lord Hailes, under the year 1370, refers to an entry in the Chartulary recording that one of them had become bound to the Abbot and Abbey that he and his heirs should furnish a person to administer justice in their courts at an annual salary of twenty shillings sterling (facient ipsis deserviri de officio judicis, etc.).—Annals, II. 336 [edit. of 1819]. p. 194, 1. 6 from foot; For "425" r. " 426." p. 195: Add to note on With the most boldest :-In many cases, however, the double superlative must be regarded as intended merely to express the extreme degree more emphatically. Double comparatives are very common in Shakespeare. 66 p. 195, 1. 13 and 22; For "425" r. '426;" and 1. 26, For "505" r. “506.” 3) p. 196, 1. 7; After "to friend" insert :-So Macbeth (iii. "What I can redress, As I shall find the time to friend, I will." Even in Clarendon we have, "For the King had no port to friend by which he could bring ammunition to Oxford," etc.-Hist., Book vii. And add to note :-In the Winter's Tale, v. 1, We have " All greetings that a King at friend Can send his brother." p. 197: Add to note on I do beseech ye :-Milton almost always has ye in the accusative. Thus (Par. Lost, x. 402): -"I call ye, and declare ye now, returned Successful beyond hope, to lead ye forth," etc. p. 197, 1. 17; For " Apt is properly" r. "Apt is properly." p. 201: Add to note on Our arms in strength of welcome :-The Welcome (mistaken by the printers for Malice) would probably be written Welcõe. p. 207: Add to note on Here wast thou bayed:-A division of a house or other building was formerly called a bay; as in Measure for Measure, ii. 1 :- "If this law hold in Vienna ten years, I'll rent the fairest house in it after threepence a bay." For this, and also Bay-window, see Nares. In Boucher (or rather in the additions by his editors) will be found the further meanings of a boy, a stake, a berry, the act of baiting with dogs, round, to bend, and to obey. Spenser uses to bay for to bathe. In The Taming of the Shrew, v. 2, we have the unusual form at a bay : "Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay." 66 p. 210: Add to note on Friends am I :—In Troilus and Cressida, iv. 4, however, we have "And I'll grow friend with danger." p. 213, 1. 9 from foot: for "Benedict r. "Benedick." p. 214: Add to note on Cry havoc !-Milton in one place makes a verb of this substantive :-" To waste and havoc yonder world" (Par. Lost, x. 617). p. 216. Insert after 1. 12-369. Till I have borne this corpse. Corpse (or corse) here is a modern conjectural substitution for the course of the First and Second Folios and the coarse of the Third and Fourth. p. 219: Add to note on The noble Brutus is ascended: -The following are examples of this form of construction from other Plays : (Dogberry, in Much Ado about Noth., iv. 2) ; "Prince John is this morning secretly stolen away." (Sexton, Ibid.); "His lordship is walked forth into the orchard." "He said mine eyes were black, and my hair black, (Phebe, in As You Like It, iii. 5); "You being then, if you be remembered, cracking the stones."―(Clown, in Meas. for Meas. ii. 1); "I telling you then, if you 'But, if be remembered.”—(Ibid.) ; you be remembered, "I did not bid you mar it to the time." (Petrucio, in Tam. of Shrew, iv. 3) ; "If your majesty is remembered of it." (Fluellen, in Henry V., iv. 7) ; "Now, by my troth, if I had been remembered, "Be you (York, in Rich. III., ii. 4) ; remembered, Marcus, she's gone, she's fled.” p. 222, 1.7; After "that liberty" add :-Even in Clarendon, reporting the words of Queen Henrietta to himself, we have::-" Her old confessor, Father Philips, . . . always told her, that, as she ought to continue firm and constant to her own religion, so she was to live well towards the Protestants who deserved well from her, and to whom she was beholding" (Hist., Book xiii.). p. 224: Insert after "there is no bequeman :”—Become, in this sense, it ought to be noticed, has apparently no connection with to come (from coman, or cuman); we have its root cweman in the old English to quem, meaning to please, used by Chaucer. And the German also, like our modern English, has also in this instance lost or rejected both the simple form and the ge- form, retaining, or substituting, only bequem and bequemen. p. 227, last line : Add after " Othello :"—and the Fourth Act of As You Like It. p. 228; After 1. 14 insert :-426. That day he overcame the Nervii.-These words certainly ought not to be made a direct statement, as they are by the punctuation of the Variorum and of most other modern editions, though not by that of Mr. Collier's. p. 229; After 1. 10 from foot, insert :-432. We will be revenged, etc.-This speech is printed in the First Folio as if it were verse, thus : kr About,-seek,-burn,-fire,-kill,-slay! Let not a traitor live." p. 231: Add to note on For I have neither wit, etc. :We have the same natural conjunction of terms that we have here in Measure for Measure, v. 1, where the Duke addresses the discomfited Angelo :— "Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence, That yet can do thee office?" p. 232: Add to note on Take thou what course, etc.:It is impossible not to suspect that Shakespeare must have written "Take now what course thou wilt." The emphatic pronoun, or even a pronoun at all, is unaccountable here. And 1. 11, after "last foot," add :-Thus we have in Milton, Paradise Lost, x. 840, "Beyond all past example and future;" and again, xi. 683, "To whom thus Michael: These are the product." At least, future, which is common in his verse, has everywhere else the accent on the first syllable. Product occurs nowhere else in Milton, and nowhere in Shakespeare. p. 233: Add to note on Ay, and, truly, you were best : -In the following sentence from As You Like It, i. 1, we have both the idioms that have been referred to :-" I had as lief thou didst break his neck as his finger; and thou wert best look to it." p. 234; After 1. 6 add:-The expression occurs also in As You Like It, iii. 1:- 'Do this expediently, and turn him going." p. 235: Add to note on To groan and sweat under the business :-There are a good many more instances of lines concluding with business, in which either it is a trisyllable (although commonly only a dissyllable in the middle of a line) or the verse must be regarded as a hemistich, or truncated verse, of nine syllables. p. 237,1. 6 from foot: For " Listen has❞ r. Listen has." p. 238: Add to note on Millions of mischiefs :-In the Winter's Tale, iv. 2, however, we have, in a speech of the Clown, "A million of beating may come to a great matter." p. 240: Add to note on But not with such familiar instances:-Shakespeare's use of the word may be further illustrated by the following passages:-" They will scarcely believe this without trial: offer them instances; which shall bear no less likelihood than to see me at her chamber win- "Instance! O instance! strong as Pluto's gates; The bonds of heaven are slipped, dissolved, and loosed; The fractions of her faith, orts of her love, The fragments, scraps, the bits and greasy reliques Troil. and Cress., v. 2. p. 241: Add to note on Like horses hot at hand :-The two expressions in hand and at hand are commonly distinguished in the Plays as they are in our present usage ; and we also have on hand and at the hands of in the modern senses, as well as to bear in hand (“to keep in expectation, to amuse with false pretences"-Nares) and at any hand (that is, in any case), which are now obsolete. In the The Comedy of Errors, ii. 1, at hand, used by his mistress Adriana in the common sense, furnishes matter for the word-catching wit of Dromio of Ephesus after he has been beaten, as he thinks, by his master :"Adr. Say, is your tardy master now at hand? Dro. E. Nay, he's at two hands with me, and that my two ears can witness." In King John, v. 2, however, we have "like a lion fostered up at hand," that is, as we should now say, by hand. In another similar phrase, we may remark, at has now taken the place of the in or into of a former age. We now say To march at the head of, and also To place at the head of, and we use in the head and into the head in quite other senses; but here is the way in which Clarendon expresses himself:-" "They said . . . that there should be an army of thirty thousand men immediately transported into England, with the Prince of Wales in the head of them" (Hist., Book x.); 'The King was only expected to be nearer England, how disguised soever, that he might 66 |