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431) Commentary Note for lines 1243-4:
1243-4 Pol. Though this be madnesse, | yet there is method in't, will you

    ... orrespondence with <i>Every Man in his Humour</i> shows a verbal echo of a play Shakespeare is known to have acted in : Q 1601, I. iv. 196-8, '<i>Biancha</i> : ...

    ... the air. <i>Thorello</i> : How simple, and how subtle are her answers!' Did Shakespeare then play Thorello (Kitely), rather than Lorenzo (Knowell) Senior, a ...
432) Commentary Note for lines 1247-8:
1247-8 Pol. Indeede that's out of the ayre; | how pregnant sometimes

    ... This curious parallel is found in Jonson's Folio 1616, and in the Quarto 1601. Shakespeare acted in Jonson's play; perhaps this is an echo that lived in his br ...
433) Commentary Note for lines 1273-4:
1273-4 Guyl. Happy, in that we are not {euer} <ouer->happy on For|tunes {lap} <Cap>,

    ... ut is twined round the cap in the form of a wreath and it may well be asked, if Shakespeare had not in his mind's eye a cap with a flowing ribbon &#8212; just l ...

    ... otch cap should not be the invention of a later day. See Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, XVI, 245 seq.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1890< ...
434) Commentary Note for line 1285:
1285 <Let me question more in particular: what haue>

    ... #x201C;Who inserted in the folio this and other passages? Was it or was it not Shakespere? Beyond a doubt they are Shakespere's all. Then who omitted those o ...

    ... and other passages? Was it or was it not Shakespere? Beyond a doubt they are Shakespere's all. Then who omitted those omitted? Was Shakespere incapable of ...

    ... Beyond a doubt they are Shakespere's all. Then who omitted those omitted? Was Shakespere incapable of refusing any of his own work? Or would these editors, wh ...
435) Commentary Note for lines 1304-5:
1304 <very substance of the Ambitious, is meerely the shadow>
1305 <of a Dreame.>

    ... state of humanity is [insert Greek text here], the <i>dream of a shadow</i>.' Shakespeare applies it only to &#8216;the ambitious.'&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> < ...

    ... a>1304, 1306, 1308, 1310<b> shadow</b>]<sc> Neil</sc> (ed. 1877): &#x201C;Here Shakespeare plays with a commonplace of Greek poetry popular in his day, found i ...
436) Commentary Note for lines 1309-12:
1309 < Ham. Then are our Beggers bodies; and our Mo->
1310 <narchs and out-stretcht Heroes the Beggers Shadowes:> 1310
1311 <shall wee to th'Court: for, by my fey I cannot rea->
1312 <son?>

    ... 1309-10 <b>Then ... Shadowes</b>] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed, 1765): &#x201C;<i>Shakespeare </i>seems here to design a ridicule of these declamations against w ...

    ... their ambition, but the shadows of the beggar's dreams.' Johnson thought that Shakespeare designed &#8216;a ridicule of those declamations against wealth and ...
437) Commentary Note for lines 1337-8:
1337-8 Ham. Nay then I haue an eye of you? if you loue me | hold not of.

    ... ning.' It is, in fact, only one out of many instances in which, in the time of Shakespeare, the preposition &#8216;of' was used for <i>on.</i>&#x201D;</hanging ...
438) Commentary Note for lines 1342-3:
1342-3 ther, I haue of late, but wherefore | I knowe not, lost all my mirth,

    ... s much of the swing of the Latin Church services.</para> <para>&#x201C;At first Shakespeare used prose very sparingly, chiefly for clowns and other comic charac ...

    ... 0&gt;</para> <para>&#x201C;There is sometimes a looseness of construction about Shakespeare's prose which might offend the scholar. But it moves very freely, an ...
439) Commentary Note for lines 1343-4:
1343-4 forgon all custome of ex|ercises: and indeede it goes so {heauily} <heauenly> with

    ... bt and distrust'; and as troubled with fearful dreams. I can hardly doubt that Shakespeare was acquainted with Bright's <i>Treatise</i>.&#x201D;</para> </cn> ...
440) Commentary Note for lines 1344-5:
1344-5 my dispositi|on, that this goodly frame the earth, seemes to mee a

    ... blackness, rising from that hideous lake'. It is sometimes suggested that the Shakespearean imagery derived from, and could apply to, the playhouse in which t ...

    ... >, <i>firmament</i> in descriptions of earth and heaven, it seems unlikely that Shakespeare needed such inspiration. Descriptions of the glory of the heavens ...

    ... s merely one example (see esp. A. Harmon, <i>PMLA</i>, LVII, 994-6). As often Shakespeare achieves a magnificent result by combining elements, which, taken se ...

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