The Tragedie of Macbeth; A New Edition of Shakespere's Works with Critical Text in Elizabethan English and Brief Notes Illustrative of Elizabethan Lif (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...'at the palace, ' N.E.D.5. ABOUT, 'by a circuitous way, ' cp. "I was forc'd to wheele Three or foure miles about" Cor.l.6.19. 114 THE1R would be 'his' in MN.E. The syntax is similar to that explained in the note to 1.3.144. A L1GHT, the torch that Fleance is carrying. 116 1T W1LL BE RAYNE, 'there will be rain'; the impersonal idiom in M.E. could have "it" for its subject, and this form of it survived into e. N.E.; cp. the German locution 'es giebt.' FIRST MURTHERER Stand too 't. BANQUO It will be rayne to night. word has been overlooked by the N.E.D. 1 16 LET 1T COME DOWNE is probably said with ironical double meaning--Met the blow fall.' 117 TRECHER1E, 'treach'ry.' 1 18 The Macbeth tradition made Fleance flee to Wales, cp." About this time also Fleance, from whom the later kings of Scotland'are descended, fled from his tyranny into Wales: where by Nest, daughter to Griffith ap Lewlyn, then Prince of all Wales, he had Walter, first Lord Steward of Scotland" Slatyer's Palalbion, 1619, p. 282. Holinshed also makes Fleance escape, not at the time of the murder, but later. 120 WE HAVE LOST was probably intended for a contraction, 'we've lost.' 121 BEST HALFE: the partitive superlative frequently appears in EL.E. without the definite article, as here, cp. "I am grieved to see how we employ most part of our time" Florio's Montaigne, 1. xxv. FIRST MURTHERER Let it come downe. THEY SET UPON BANQUO BANQUO O, trecherie Flye, good Fleans, flye, flye, flye, Thou may'st revenge. O slave D1ES. FLEANS ESCAPES THIRD MURTHERER Who did strike out the light? FIRST MURTHERER Was 't not the way? THIRD MURTHERER There's but one downe; the sonne is fled. SECOND MURTHERER We have lost Best halfe of our affaire. FIRST...