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"Jove SOMETIME masked IN A SHEPHERD'S WEED", &c.
Part First,--act i. sc. 2.
Perhaps in the third line of the present pa.s.sage "fiery-spangled"
should be "FIRE-YSPANGLED."]
[Footnote 269: Attend.] Old eds. "An." (a misprint probably), which the modern editors understand as "Anippe" (the waiting-maid of Zenocrate).]
[Footnote 270: March on us with] So the 4to.--The 8vo "MARTCHT on WITH vs with."]
[Footnote 271: As if there were no way but one with us] i.e. as if we were to lose our lives. This phrase, which is common in our early writers, was not obsolete in Dryden's time: "for, if he heard the malicious trumpeter proclaiming his name before his betters, he knew THERE WAS BUT ONE WAY WITH HIM." Preface to ALL FOR LOVE.]
[Footnote 272: pore] So the 8vo.--The 4to "dore."]
[Footnote 273: in] i.e. on.]
[Footnote 274: stay] Old eds. "aie" and "aye."]
[Footnote 275: retorqued] i.e. bent back in reflections on our former happiness. So the 8vo.--The 4to "retortued."]
[Footnote 276: A] Old eds. "As."]
[Footnote 277: Elysium] Old eds. "Elisian."]
[Footnote 278: thoughts] So the 8vo.--The 4to "thought."]
[Footnote 279: parbreak] i.e. vomit.]
[Footnote 280: abjection] Old eds. "obiection."]
[Footnote 281: villainess] i.e. servant, slave,]
[Footnote 282: ruth] So the 8vo.--The 4to "truth."]
[Footnote 283: resolve] i.e. dissolve.]
[Footnote 284: bann'd] i.e. cursed.]
[Footnote 285: the] So the 4to.--The 8vo "thy."]
[Footnote 286: ever-living] So the 8vo.--The 4to. "euerlasting."]
[Footnote 287: give] So the 4to.--The 8vo "AND giue."]
[Footnote 288: her] Must mean Zenocrate, whom Zabina fancies herself to be addressing.]
[Footnote 289: Let the soldiers be buried.--h.e.l.l, death, Tamburlaine]
So the 8vo.--Omitted in the 4to. (Where the modern editors got their reading, "Let the soldiers be CURSED," I know not.)]
[Footnote 290: Make ready my coach] Shakespeare seems to have remembered this pa.s.sage when he made Ophelia say, "Come, my coach," &c.
HAMLET, act iv. sc. 5.]
[Footnote 291: I come, I come, I come] So the 8vo.--The 4to "I come, I come."]
[Footnote 292: Egyptians'] So the 4to.--The 8vo "Egiptian.']
[Footnote 293: The] Old eds. "Thy."]
[Footnote 294: thy] So the 8vo.--The 4to "thine."]
[Footnote 295: war] So the 8vo.--The 4to "warres."]
[Footnote 296: Come] Old eds. "Comes" and "Comep."]
[Footnote 297: Armed] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Armes."]
[Footnote 298: final] So the 4to.--The 8vo "small."]
[Footnote 299: King of Arabia] i.e. Alcidamus; see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col.]
[Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,"]
[Footnote 300: thy] So the 4to.--The 8vo "my."]
[Footnote 301: conceit] i.e. fancy, imagination.]
[Footnote 302: have] So the 8vo.--The 4to "hath."]
[Footnote 303: Euphrates] So our old poets invariably, I believe, accentuate this word. [Note: 'Euphrates' was printed with no accented characters at all.]
[Footnote 304: should] So the 8vo.--The 4to "shall."]
[Footnote 305: sweat] So the 8vo.--The 4to "sweare."]
[Footnote 306: wide-gaping] Old eds. "wide GASPING."]
[Footnote 307: resolv'd] i.e. dissolved.]
[Footnote 308: Millions] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Million."]
[Footnote 309: Elysium] Old eds. "Elisian."]
[Footnote 310: Renowmed] See note , p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo.
--The 4to "Renowned."]
[Footnote 311: record] i.e. take to witness.]
[Footnote 312: no further time] i.e. no more distant time.]
[Footnote 313: the] So the 8vo.--The 4to "my."]
