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[Footnote 117: and] So the 8vo.--The 4to "with."]

[Footnote 118: sprung] See note ?, p. 14.[i.e. note 81.]]

[Footnote 119: dares] So the 8vo.--The 4to "dare."]

[Footnote 120: fate] Old eds. "state."]

[Footnote 121: Resolve] Seems to mean--dissolve (compare "our bodies turn to elements," p. 12, sec. col.): but I suspect some corruption here.

Page 12, Second Column, This Play: "TAMBURLAINE. . . . .

Until our bodies turn to elements, And both our souls aspire celestial thrones.--"

etc.]]

[Footnote 122: Barbarous] Qy. "O barbarous"? in the next line but one, "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, "O b.l.o.o.d.y"?

But we occasionally find in our early dramatists lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some of these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.]

[Footnote 123: artier] i.e. artery. This form occurs again in the SEC.

PART of the present play: so too in a copy of verses by Day;]

"Hid in the vaines and ARTIERS of the earthe."

SHAKESPEARE SOC. PAPERS, vol. i. 19.

The word indeed was variously written of old:

"The ARTER strynge is the conduyt of the lyfe spiryte."

Hormanni VULGARIA, sig. G iii. ed. 1530.

"Riche treasures serue for th'ARTERS of the war."

Lord Stirling's DARIUS, act ii. Sig. C 2. ed. 1604.

"Onelye the extrauagant ARTIRE of my arme is brused."

EVERIE WOMAN IN HER HUMOR, 1609, sig. D 4.

"And from the veines some bloud each ARTIRE draines."

Davies's MICROCOSMOS, 1611, p. 56.]

[Footnote 124: regiment] i.e. rule.]

[Footnote 125: fruit] So the 4to.--The 8vo "fruites."]

[Footnote 126: are] Old eds. "Is."]

[Footnote 127: talents] Was often used by our early writers for TALONS, as many pa.s.sages might be adduced to shew. Hence the quibble in Shakespeare's LOVE'S LABOUR< p="">

[Footnote 128: harpy] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Harper;" and with that reading the line is cited, in a note on MACBETH, act iv. sc. 1, by Steevens, who also gives "tires UPON my life;" but "TIRES"

(a well-known term in falconry, and equivalent here to--preys) is to be p.r.o.nounced as a dissyllable. (In the 4to it in spelt "tyers."]

[Footnote 129: the] So the 4to.--The 8vo "thy."]

[Footnote 130: ba.s.soes] i.e. bashaws.]

[Footnote 131: Christians renied] i.e. Christians who have denied, or renounced their faith.--In THE GENT. MAGAZINE for Jan. 1841, J. M. would read "Christians RENEGADENS" or "CHRISTIAN RENEGADES:"

but the old text is right; among many pa.s.sages that might be cited, compare the following;

"And that Ydole is the G.o.d of false Cristene, that han RENEYED hire FEYTHE."

THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAILE OF SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILE, p. 209. ed. 1725.

"For that thou should'st RENY THY FAITH, and her thereby possesse.

The Soldan did capitulat in vaine: the more thy blesse."

Warner's ALBIONS ENGLAND, B. XI. Ch. 68. p. 287. ed. 1596.]

[Footnote 132: Terrene] i.e. Mediterranean.]

[Footnote 133: Renowmed] See note , p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo.

--The 4to "renowned."]

[Footnote 134: ba.s.so] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Brother."]

[Footnote 135: Not] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Nor."]

[Footnote 136: in] So the 8vo.--The 4to "on."]

[Footnote 137: Or spread, &c.] A word has dropt out from this line.]

[Footnote 138: measur'd heaven] So the 8vo.--The 4to "measured THE heauen."]

[Footnote 139: pioners] The usual spelling of the word in our early writers (in Shakespeare, for instance).]

[Footnote 140: ceaseless] So the 8vo.--The 4to "carelesse."]

[Footnote 141: conceits] i.e[.] fancies, imaginations.]

[Footnote 142: counterfeit] i.e. picture, resemblance.]

[Footnote 143: his] So the 8vo.--The 4to "the."]

[Footnote 144: you] So the 8vo.--The 4to "me."]

[Footnote 145: Leave] The author probably wrote, "AGYDAS, leave," &c.]

[Footnote 146: facts] i.e. deeds.]

[Footnote 147: much] So the 8vo.--The 4to "more."]

[Footnote 148: Pierides] i.e. The daughters of Pierus, who, having challenged the Muses to a trial of song, were overcome, and changed into magpies.]

[Footnote 149: the young Arabian] Scil. Alcidamus; see p. 10, l. 9, sec.

col.