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You are like something that-What countrywo

man?

Here of these shores ??

MAR.

No, nor of any shores:

Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am
No other than I appear.

PER. I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping.3

My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one My daughter might have been : my queen's square brows;

• I do think so.

I pray you, turn your eyes again upon me.

You are like something that-What countrywoman?

Here of these shores?] This passage is so strangely corrupted in the first quarto and all the other copies, that I cannot forbear transcribing it:

"Per. I do thinke so, pray you turne your eyes upon me, you like something that, what countrey women heare of these shewes.

"Mar. No nor of any shewes," &c.

For the ingenious emendation-shores, instead of shewes(which is so clearly right, that I have not hesitated to insert it in the text) as well as the happy regulation of the whole passage, I am indebted to the patron of every literary undertaking, my friend, the Earl of Charlemont. MALONE.

I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping.] So, in King Richard II:

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Green, thou art the midwife to my woe,
"And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir:
"Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy,
"And I, a gasping, new-deliver'd mother,
"Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow join'd."

such a one

MALONE.

My daughter might have been :] So, Demones in the Rudens of Plautus, exclaims on beholding his long-lost child:

"O filia

"Mea! cum ego hanc video, mearum. me absens mise

riarum commones,

"Trima quæ periit mihi: jam tanta esset, si vivit, scio."

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