The Works of William Shakspeare Volume 4; Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...os poetry we might call Cupid a giant-dwais; hut how a giant-dwars should be represented in painting, I cannot well conceive. Mason. Shakspeare, in K. Richard III. Act. iv. sc. iv. u t&signory sor seniority; and Stowe's Chronicle, p. 149, edit. 1614, speaks os Edward thesgnior, i. e. the elder I can theresore suppose that signor here meansyjnrer, and not the Italian title os honour. Thus in the first solio, at the end os the Comedy os Errors: " S. Dro. Not I, Sir, you are my elder. " E. Dro. That's a question: how shall we try it? "S.lro. We'll draw cuts sor the sunior." Ton Et. The The anointed sovereign os fighs and groans., Liege os all loiterers and malecontents, Dread prince os plackets, king os codpieces, Sole imperator, and great general Os trotting paritors 7, --O my little heart --And I to be a corporal os his field 8, And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop 9 ' What? 11 I love ' 1 sue I seek a wise A woman that is like a German clock, Still a repairing; ever out os srame; And 1 Os trotting paritors, An apparitor, or paritcr, is an osftWr os the bishop's court, who carries out citations: as.citations are mod srequently issued sor sornication, the paritor is put under Cupid's government. Johnson 8 And I to le a corporal os his sield, Giles Clayton in his Martial Discipline, 1591, has a chapter on the ossice and duty os a corporal os the sield. Brokesby tells us, that " Mr. Dodwell's sather was in an ossice then known by the name os corporal os the f eld, which he said was equal to that os a captain os horse " Farmer. It appears srom Lord Stassord's Lettcn, vol. ii. p. 199, that corporal as the feld was employed as an aid-de-camp is now, in taking and carrying to and sro the directions os the general, or ot...