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451) Commentary Note for line 1392:
1392 < Ham. What are they Children? Who maintains 'em?>

    ... t</i> a Portion of Sir <i>John Fallstaffe's</i> <i>Instinct</i>. I must own, <i>Shakesepare</i> is not without some more Samples of these Self-Contradictions; a ...

    ... oclamation.'</para> <para>&lt;/f. 242v&gt;&lt;f. 243r&gt;&gt;part in the choir. Shakespeare alludes sarcastically to that. They sing now, when their voices are ...

    ... h pieces these children performed &amp; what particular <small>passane</small>. Shakespeare aimed at.</para> <para>&#x201C;The passage as it is printed in all t ...
452) Commentary Note for lines 1400-2:
1400 <and the Nation holds it no sinne, to tarre them to Con->
1401 <trouersie. There was for a while, no mony bid for argu->
1402 <ment, vnlesse the Poet and the Player went to Cuffes in>

    ... e</i>, <i>urge on, set on</i>, as we do Dogs to fighting. And so, I observe, <i>Shakespeare</i> in other Passages writes it. King <i>John, pag</i>. 169.<i>&#82 ...
453) Commentary Note for line 1408:
1408 < Rosin. I that they do my Lord, Hercules & his load too.>

    ... in the present passage (see <i>RES</i>, n.s. XIX, 51-3). If we may accept it, Shakespeare's word-play not only represents the boys carrying the whole world wi ...
454) Commentary Note for lines 1410-11:
1410-1 those that would make {mouths} <mowes> at him | while my father liued, giue

    ... 839): &#x201C;In quartos, <i>mouths. </i>The <i>mowes</i> of the folio is more Shakesperian--- as in the Tempest [2.2.9. (1048) &amp; 4.1.47. (1702)].&#x201D;< ...
455) Commentary Note for lines 1411-12:
1411-2 twenty, fortie, {fifty,} a hundred | duckets a peece, for his Picture

    ... expression &#8216;<i>in little</i>' was used by writers long after the time of Shakespeare: so in Shadwell's <i>Sullen Lovers;</i> &#8216;I will paint with Lil ...
456) Commentary Note for lines 1419-20:
1419-20 mee comply with you in {this} <the> garb: | {let me} <lest my> extent to the players,

    ... ether the word &#8216;extent' has not been misprinted for <i>ostent, </i>a word Shakespeare not unfrequently uses, in the sense of external show? The context s ...
457) Commentary Note for lines 1425-6:
1425-6 Ham. I am but mad North North west; when the | wind is Sou-
1426 therly, I knowe a Hauke, from a hand saw.

    ... heron</i> which it pursues. The corruption is said to be as old as the time of Shakespeare.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1832<tab> </tab>cald2</sc></sigl ...

    ... expression &#8216;I know a hawk from a handsaw,' was proverbial in the time of Shakespeare.</para> <para>&#x201C;&#8216;Hawk' is a kind of <i>hook</i> in Oxfor ...

    ... w a hawk from the heron it pursues. The corruption was prevalent in the time of Shakespeare.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1856<tab> </tab>hud1 (1851-6)</s ...

    ... ] <sc>Hudson</sc> (ed. 1856): 'To know a hawk from a handsaw,' was a proverb in Shakespeare's time. <i>Handsaw</i> is merely a corruption of <i>hernshaw</i>, w ...

    ... >] <sc>Atkinson</sc> (1863, pp.721-22):&lt;p.721&gt; &#x201C;In Mr. Donbavand's Shakespeare emendations, in the <i>Athenaeum</i> of the 21st instant, I think he ...

    ... peasantry of the neighborhood, a single bird is called a <i>heronsew</i>, hence Shakespeare's line may have been written,&#8212;'I know a hawk from a heronsew.' ...

    ... ge from the &#8216;Fairy Queen' (B. 6, c. 7, v.9) seems to show distinctly that Shakespeare, in the passage in dispute, wrote <i>herneshaw</i>, and not <i>hands ...

    ... e seen it supported by some passages from any of the books on Falconry to which Shakespeare might have access. I have always thought that Hamlet here meant to i ...

    ... or hernsew; &#8216;no other instances of the phrase (except as quotations from Shakespeare) have been found'(<i> New Eng. Dict</i>.). J.C. Heath (quoted in Cla ...

    ... ursuit of a hern by a pair of hawks. The south wind is generally represented by Shakespeare as a wind of evil contagion. Does Hamlet mean that he can recognise ...

    ... dn, I. 254-5) Hence it is not necessary to suppose that the phrase as used by Shakespeare, whatever the fact of its origin, envisages either two birds or two ...

    ... tion that Falstaff's sword 'hack'd like a handsaw' (<i>1H4</i> II. iv. 161) led Shakespeare to <i>hawk</i> via a pun on <i>hack</i> appears far-fetched. It ma ...
458) Commentary Note for line 1428:
1428 Pol. Well be with you Gentlemen.

    ... nd many more in Elizabethan than in modern English. The singular verb is quite Shakespearian in &#8216;Though bride and bridegroom <i>wants</i> (are wanting) f ...
459) Commentary Note for lines 1444-6:
1444-5 Pol. The best actors in the world, either for Trage|die, Comedy,
1445-6 History, Pastorall, {Pastorall} <Pastoricall-> Comicall, | Historicall Pastorall,

    ... ason why they were hitherto omitted. There are many plays of the age, if not of Shakespeare's, that answer to the description.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn><sigla><s ...

    ... sc> (ed. 1872): &#x201C;In the licence granted to the Globe Company, to which Shakespeare belonged, dated 17 May, 1603, he and his associates are allowed ' fr ...

    ... erent from tragedies and comedies to be reckoned apart, is an important fact in Shakespeare's biography.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> </cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1934</sc> ...

    ... nlimited] <sc>Zitner</sc> (1983, p. 194): &lt;p. 194&gt; &#x201C;For his part, Shakespeare wrote pastoral-comical in <i>As You Like It,</i> 'tragical-historica ...

    ... even a relevance--to genre theory. There is, in any case, no hard evidence that Shakespeare concerned himself with literary theory or knew any of the writings o ...
460) Commentary Note for lines 1446-7:
1446-7 <Tragicall-Historicall: Tragicall-|Comicall-Historicall-Pastorall:> scene

    ... son why they were hitherto omitted. There are many plays of the age, if not of Shakespeare's, that answer to the description.&#x201D; </para></cn> <cn><sigla>1 ...

    ... son why they were hitherto omitted. There are many plays of the age, if not of Shakespeare, that answer to these descriptions.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn><sigla>< ...

    ... same, or <i>undivided,</i> all through the piece. But in the Gothic drama, as Shakespeare found and fixed it, the changes of scene are without definite limita ...

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