Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays, from Early Manuscript Corrections in Copy of the Folio, 1632, in the Poszessions of J. Payne Collier (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. Page 21. " Longing journey" may, however, mean the journey Julia naturally longed to take. Paoe 43. As, however, is stated in note 5, "weed" is a term still applied to an ill-conditioned horse. Page 81. For " what Shakespeare wrote," read, " what, we may suppose, Shakespeare wrote." Page 89. The change of " 'tired horse," in the sense of attired horse, to "trained horse," is not, of course, unavoidable. Page 117. The "fool multitude," strictly speaking, governs the verb "builds," and not "martlet." Page 144. For "inserted in," read expunged from. Page 159. For " I am to use," in the quotation read " I have to use." Paoe 179. For "must have been," read was probably. Page 207. For "parentheses," read parenthesis. Page 246. There is just room to suspect that Shakespeare's word might be wage, and not " weigh." Page 254. We neither entirely like "fine," "find," nor "found;" and line, which might be the word, occurs just above. Page 298. For " which proves," read "which seems to prove." Page 362. The opinion given in vol. vi. p. 139, upon the subject of the printing of "Coriolanus," in the folio, 1623, must, therefore, be materially qualified. Page 374. Yet in " Henry VI. Part II." Act IH. Scene I., "rolled " is allowed to stand, and is not altered to coiled. Page 381. In reference to the insertion or restoration of rhymes, it ought to be stated that the old corrector, in this play, has sometimes struck out his own changes. Page 434. We can well remember that John Kemble made a similar pause, and other actors have done so after him. Page 464. There may be authority for believing that mirrors of polished "stone " were sometimes used of old: glass, with a certain licence, might indeed be call...