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491) Commentary Note for lines 1627-8:
1627-8 And fall a cursing like a very drabbe; | a {stallyon,} <Scullion?> fie vppont, foh.

    ... io</i>'s have it, a <i>Scullion</i> : but that too is wrong. I am persuaded, <i>Shakespeare</i> wrote as I have reform'd the Text, a <i>Cullion</i>, i.e. a stu ...

    ... n the text the three exclamations fill a regular line. According to Dr Schmidt, Shakespeare-Lexicon s. <i>Foh</i>, there is only one more passage in Shakespeare ...

    ... r Schmidt, Shakespeare-Lexicon s. <i>Foh</i>, there is only one more passage in Shakespeare where this interjection occurs in connection with <i>fie upon</i>, v ...
492) Commentary Note for line 1629:
1629 That guilty creatures sitting at a play,

    ... haue heard...of the malefactions</b>] <sc>Upton</sc> (1748): &#x201C;'Tis plain Shakespeare alludes to a story told of Alexander the cruel tyrant of Pherae in T ...

    ... . . organ:</b>] <sc>Grey</sc> (1754, pp. 293-5): &#x201C;'Tis probable that <i>Shakespeare </i>had the following incident in view, which happened in his own t ...

    ... ures sitting at a play</b>]<sc> Neil</sc> (ed. 1877): &#x201C;&#8216;'Tis plain Shakespeare alludes to a story told of Alexander, the cruel tyrant of Pher&#230; ...

    ... > Plutarch, in the <i>Life of Pelopidas</i>' &#8212; Upton's <i>Observations on Shakespeare</i>, p. 62. In <i>A Warning for Fair Women</i> (written before 1590) ...

    ... sband (sig. H2; Bullough, p. 181). This play had been &#8216;lately' acted by Shakespear's company and seems to have been echoed by him, though the story was ...

    ... ioned by Henslowe in 1602 but probably older). It was perhaps the influence of Shakespeare as well as such examples from the life that led Massinger to make th ...
493) Commentary Note for line 1632:
1632 They haue proclaim'd their malefactions:

    ... f the kind in T. Heywood's &#8216;Apology for Actors,' 1612, reprinted for the Shakespeare Society, p. 57. The same story is told in the old tragedy, &#8216; ...
494) Commentary Note for line 1634:
1634 With most miraculous organ: Ile haue these Players

    ... pportunity of clearing <i>Brutus</i> from the Imputation of a Murther, which <i>Shakespeare</i> is made to throw upon him, tho' he never had it in his Head to t ...

    ... i>'s for a <i>correct</i> and <i>infallible</i> Edition, begin to wonder how <i>Shakespeare</i> could be so precise in <i>Roman</i> History as to the Death of < ...

    ... ver design'd a Charge of this sort against poor <i>Brutus</i>; and in short, <i>Shakespeare</i> will presently stand acquitted of this Blunder; and the Fault ap ...

    ... Explication upon it, which will be new to <i>some</i> Readers, at least, of <i>Shakespeare</i>: and, consequently, I shall not lose all my Labour in it. I had ...

    ... iz</i>. the blackest <i>Ingratitude</i> and most detestable <i>Parricide</i> <i>Shakespeare</i> has elsewhere taken Notice of <i>C&#230;sar</i>'s excessive Love ...

    ... 0;sar</i> had some Reason to believe that he was begot by him.' &#8212; This <i>Shakespeare</i> knew, and therefore reviles <i>Brutus</i> with being the Bastard ...
495) Commentary Note for line 1637:
1637 Ile tent him to the quicke, if a {doe} <but> blench

    ... er</sc> (1845, p. 236): &lt;p. 236&gt;&#x201C;The word occurs in other plays of Shakespeare, and the meaning here and elsewhere is the same. We should now say, ...

    ... a><hanging><sc>hal</sc></hanging> <para><sc>Halliwell</sc> (ed. 1865): &#x201C; Shakespeare seems to use blench in the sense of, to wink, to glance. Quotes ...
496) Commentary Note for line 1641:
1641 Out of my weakenes, and my melancholy,

    ... observe that though the word (in its full range of meanings) is a common one in Shakespeare, this is the only instance of its use by Hamlet to describe his own ...
497) Commentary Note for line 1644:
1644 More relatiue then this, the play's the thing

    ... s mind some of the incidents in real life which probably suggested the scene to Shakespere himself, or have resembled the same idea in the old play, <i>A Warnin ...

    ... 1C;Horatio&#x201D; (<i>SJC</i>. No. 1841 (Dec.1-Dec.3, 1772: 4): &#x201C;Though Shakespeare was not unacquainte with the Effects which a well-acted Play had pro ...

    ... w of Jonson's pieces, that I shall not here take up much of the reader's time.--Shakespeare, we see, has discussed the argument, relative to the encouragement o ...

    ... and patronized theatrical diversions, by the personal encouragement he gave to Shakespeare, might be the means of reconciling the contending parties. We know ...

    ... speare, might be the means of reconciling the contending parties. We know that Shakespeare assisted Jonson in writing in <i>Sejanus</i>; and Dr. Johnson and Dr ...
498) Commentary Note for lines 1650-1:
1650 Grating so harshly all his dayes of quiet
1651 With turbulent and dangerous lunacie?

    ... disturbing, irritating. Compare Antony and Cleopatra, i. 1.18. Elsewhere in Shakespeare the verb is used intransitively."</para></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1934<ta ...
499) Commentary Note for line 1661:
1661 Ros. Niggard of question, but of our demaunds

    ... confession</i>: But such a description can never pass but at cross-purposes. <i>Shakespear </i>certainly wrote it just the other way, &#8216;Most free <i>of que ...

    ... c>Mason</sc> (1785, p. 383): &#x201C;Warburton forgets that by <i>question,</i> Shakespeare does not usually mean <i>interrogatory</i>, but <i>discourse</i>; bu ...

    ... nter</sc> (-1845, f. 244r): &#x201C;Warburton has very happily conjectured that Shakespeare wrote the very opposite in qu[margins] to this passage as it now sta ...

    ... conjectured that <i>most free</i> and <i>niggard</i> should change places. But Shakespeare probably intended to make these diplomatists <i>lie</i> to their emp ...

    ... ed to express more clearly the idea of distance. [. . .] But in the English of Shakespeare's day the original of was sometimes used where we would use off. It ...

    ... at is most free in talk on other and casual subjects. This exactly agrees with Shakespeare's portraiture of him witness his digressions on plays and acting etc ...

    ... . Nowhere else, except more markedly is there marked instances of madness does Shakespeare allow his characters to wander off on each freshly started subject, ...
500) Commentary Note for line 1663:
1663 Quee. Did you assay him to any pastime?

    ... fort&#233;, a Seige [sic.], or Assay, the latter of w.ch Words is frequent w.th Shakespear; the King uses it afterwards in this Play,&#8212;Help, Angels, make A ...

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