Shakespeare's Works (Volume 16)

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: ... inveigh against the patricians for having granted it. The latter explanation, as Clarke remarks, is favoured by what Sicinius says in iii. 3. 13 fol. below. The passage is a curious illustration of the directly opposite sense which this little word from may give to a statement. Cf. the play upon the word in Rich. III. iv. 4. 258 fol. 91. O good. The folios have O God! The correction was made by Pope (suggested by Theo.). 92. Reckless. Wr. notes that the word is spelt wreaklesse and wreakless in the folios, as in M.for M. iv. 2. 150: Carelesse, wreaklesse, and fearlesse of what's past, present, or to come; and 3 Hen. VI. v. 6. 7: So flies the wreaklesse shepherd from ye Wolfe. 93. Given Hydra here to choose, etc. Allowed this many-headed multitude (see ii. 3. 15 above) to choose, etc. Here is changed to leave in the Coll. MS.; and to heart by V). (Leo's conjecture); but no alteration is required by either sense or syntax. For other allusions to Hydra, see 1 Hen. IV. p. 201, note on Like Hydra's heads. Cf. Hen. V. i. 1. 35. See also iv. 1.1 below. 95. Horn. Carrying out the idea of Triton, blowing his wreathed horn, as Wordsworth calls it. Monster's. The folios have Monsters, the regular form of the possessive in the printing of that day. Some editors follow Capell in reading monster; but, as Wr. notes, the construction is the same as in Cymb. ii. 3. 149: y Shrew me, If I would lose it for a revenue Of any king's in Europe; and Rich. II. iii. 4. 70: 11 Letters came last night To a dear friend of the good duke of York's. 96. In. Into. See on ii. 3. 252 above. 98. Vail your ignorance. Cause your ign...