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861) Commentary Note for line 2849:
2849 Quee. How cheerefully on the false traile they cry. {A noise within.}

    ... imply that she is a foreign consort -- common enough in European monarchies in Shakespeare's time (Redgrave, 230).&#x201D;</para></cn> <tlnrange>2849</tlnrange ...
862) Commentary Note for line 2850:
2850 O this is counter you false Danish dogges. 2850

    ... <b>you </b>. . .<b> dogges</b>] <sc>Spencer</sc> (ed. 1980): &#x201C;Presumably Shakespeare took it for granted that the queen-consort of the monarch was a fore ...
863) Commentary Note for line 2851:
2851 <Noise within.> Enter Laertes {with others}.

    ... ing</i> and <i>they retire without the door</i> are modern stage directions. In Shakespeare's theater it appears that the followers of Laertes remained outside. ...
864) Commentary Note for line 2863:
2863 Euen heere betweene the chast vnsmirched browe

    ... fell feats.' <i>H5 </i>[3.3.16-17 (1275-76)] Hitherto it has only been found in Shakespeare, who has also <i>besmircht</i>, and <i>unsmirch'd</i>, <i>H5 </i>[4. ...

    ... rched</b>] <sc>Collier</sc> (ed. 1858): &#x201C;This seems the only place where Shakespeare uses &#8216;unsmirched' meaning <i>unsullied</i>. In <i>H5</i> [3.3. ...

    ... browe</b>] <sc>Wilson</sc> (1934, rpt. 1963, 2:300): &#x201C;it is evident that Shakespeare intended to write the plural instead of the singular.&#x201D;</para> ...
865) Commentary Note for line 2866:
2866 That thy rebellion lookes so gyant like?

    ... e 2nd. Whalley's comment is also noteworthy as identifying speakers' words with Shakespeare's sentiments. Of course, I am doing the same, conflating Whalley wit ...

    ... 32;se-majest&#233;</i>' (Thomson, <i>Sh. and the Classics</i>, p. 118) and that Shakespeare had it in mind is suggested by the references to Pelion and Ossa in ...

    ... atop Mount Ossa in an attempt to storm Heaven and overthrow the Olympian Gods. Shakespeare would have known the story from Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses </i>(Book I) ...
866) Commentary Note for line 2868:
2868 There's such diuinitie doth hedge a King,

    ... t of the false king was superior and might justify this fine sentiment, or else Shakespeare himself may be suspected of laughing at this kind of royal heroics, ...

    ... ht of Kings is brought out more strongly in <i>R2</i> than in any other play of Shakespeare. But the theory is an anachronism there. It grew up under the Tudors ...

    ... dor, having its origin in Henry VIII.'s breach with the Papacy and the Emperor. Shakespeare's history was coloured by the conditions and views of his own day.&# ...

    ... >Rylands</sc> (ed. 1947): &#x201C;The idea of the Divine Right of Kings, which Shakespeare makes much of in <i>RII</i>, was encouraged by Queen Elizabeth and s ...
867) Commentary Note for line 2869:
2869 That treason can but peepe to what it would,

    ... ;acts,' in accordance with an elliptical mode of construction sometimes used by Shakespeare. See Note 14, Act 2, <i>H8</i> [0000].&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <si ...
868) Commentary Note for line 2870:
2870 Act's little of his will, tell me Laertes 2870

    ... companied by <i>of</i> is often the expression of the motive of an action. Thus Shakespeare in <i>R2</i> 4.1.177 [2100]: <i>To do that office of thine own good ...
869) Commentary Note for line 2878:
2878 To hell allegiance, vowes to the blackest deuill,

    ... shaking off Oppression, the Usurpation, and the Tyranny of the King, &amp;c. <i>Shakespeare</i> gives him Nothing but absurd and blasphemous Sentiments: such as ...
870) Commentary Note for line 2879:
2879 Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit

    ... #x201C;<i>Grace</i> is here used in the sense of <i>salvation</i>. See Schmidt, Shakespeare-Lexicon, s.v., No. 6, where, however, the present line is not quoted ...

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