A Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare Volume 1; With Remarks on His Language and That of His Contemporaries, Together with Notes on His Plays and Poems (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. 1860 Excerpt: ...weeds; And then to Leonato's we will go. Claud. And, Hymen, now with luckier issue speed, Than this, for whom we render'd up this woe " I have noticed an instance in the Faerie Queene, Book vi. C. vi. St. iii., --"through the long experience of his dayes Which had in many fortunes tossed beene, And past through many perilous assayes, He knew the diverse went of mortall waves, And in the minds of men had great insight; Which with sage eounsell, when they went astray, He could enforme," &c. I think Spenser, who is so strict in his rhymes, must have written, by one of his usual licenses, astray es, according to a supposed analogy with certain adverbs, which are written indiscriminately with or without the final s. Shepheards Calender, iEgl. x. St. vii., --"Abandon then the base and viler clowne; Lift up thyself out of the lowly dust, And sing of bloody Mars, of wars, of giusts; Turne thee to those that weld the awefull crowne, To doubted knights, whose woundlesse armour rusts, And helmes unbruzed wexen daylie browne." iv. l. 5, --"Or bene thine eyes attempred to the yeare, Quenching the gasping furrowes thirst with rayne? Like Aprill 9howre so stream the trickling teares Adowne thy cheeke, to quench thy thirstie paine." I have since noticed another instance, F. Q. ii. v. xxxii., --"a flock of damzelles fresh and gay, That round about him dissolute did play Their wanton follies, and light merriment;"--rhyming to habiliments and ornaments. Surely we should read merriments. In Fairfax's Tasso, B. xii. St. lxiii. Knight (Knight has injured Fairfax in several places by injudicious corrections), the alternate rhymes are blast--cast--lasts. Bead with Singer, blasts--casts--lasts. In B. vii. St. lxxxii., stand--land--bands, ...