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Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists; With Conjectural Emendations of the Text

Notes on Elizabethan Dramatists; With Conjectural Emendations of the Text

Elze, Karl
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ISBN10: 1151233684
ISBN13: 9781151233684
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.11 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
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.1884 Excerpt: ....l ANONYMOUS PLAYS. CI. Dispatch it quickly, there's not a minute's time 'Twixt thee and thy death. Proximus Ha, ha, ha! A stone falls and kills Proximus. Merlin Ay, so thou may'st die laughing. The Birth Of Merlin, IV, I (ed. Del. 68). The second line is evidently to be joined with Merlin's speech, the verse being continued spite of the interruption caused by the laughter of Proximus; see Abbott, Shakespearian Grammar, s. 514. We must either run the two words thee and into one another and scan: --'Twixt thee and thy death. Ay, so thou may'st die laughing, or thy must be expunged. At the next page (p. 69) the following passage 'gives us pause' -- 'merlin strikes his wand. Thunder and lightning. Two dragons appear, a white and a red; they fight awhile and pause...,1 Vort. What means this stay?. Merl. Be not amaz'd, my lord, for on the. victory Of loss or gain, as these two champions' ends, Your fate, your life, and kingdom all depends; Therefore observe it wel1. 2 THE BIRTH OF MERLIN. EDWARD III. Vort. I shall; heaven be auspicious to us.' Instead of stay qy. read play? Apart from the fact that the Ed. pr. (1662) reads Champions, not champions', there is no doubt some corruption also in the third line, but it baffles my endeavours to detect and amend it. In the last line we must, of course, pronounce au-spi-ci-ous, if we do not prefer to make the line one of four feet only: --I shall; heaven be auspicious to us. Some pages further on (p. 76) we read: --This brought the fiery fall of Vortiger, And yet not him alone: &c. Qy. read: his alone? By the way it may be remarked that in the old edition (1662) this speech of Merlin, like numerous others that are evidently meant to be metrical, is printed as prose. CII., ....... r.'.. Unnatural besiege!--Woe me un...

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