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Contract Context Printing 160 characters of context... Expand Context 91) Commentary Note for lines 1304-5:1305 <of a Dreame.>... [insert Greek text]<small><i> </i></small>the dream of a shadow. Thus also Sir John Davies :-- ‘Man's life is but a dreame, nay, less than so, <i>A shado ...
... ylus, 839, and in Pindar's <i>Pythian Odes</i>, viii, 136, and Englished by Sir John Davies, thus: ‘Man's life is but a dream, yea, less than so, The shad ...
92) Commentary Note for lines 1309-12:1310 <narchs and out-stretcht Heroes the Beggers Shadowes:> 13101311 <shall wee to th'Court: for, by my fey I cannot rea->1312 <son?>... ing></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1826<tab> </tab>sing1</sc></sigla><hanging><sc>sing1 = john + </sc></hanging> <para>1310 <sc>Singer</sc> (ed. 1826): “‘ I ...
... e's frame?' [a line, by the way, that shows JOHN1 using capital for emphasis]. JOHN says, ‘Though frame be not the word which appears to a reader of the ...
... I can imagine, unless the Poet had given his <i>Hamlet</i> a Portion of Sir <i>John Fallstaffe's</i> <i>Instinct</i>. I must own, <i>Shakesepare</i> is not wit ...
95) Commentary Note for lines 1400-2:1401 <trouersie. There was for a while, no mony bid for argu->1402 <ment, vnlesse the Poet and the Player went to Cuffes in>... 1C;i.e. set them on, a phrase borrowed from the setting on a dog. Thus in King John :---- ‘Like a dog that is compelled to fight,| Snatch at his master t ...
... ditions, ‘to tarre them <i>on</i>.' The folio has not <i>on. </i>In King John [4.1.115-6. (1696-7)], ‘Like a dog that is compelled to fight | Snatc ...
... en from <i>Judges</i> xi, written both in Latin and Greek, by a learned divine, John Christopherson, 1546; George Buchanan produced a tragedy on the same subjec ...
... ed. 1790): “There is a Latin tragedy on the subject of <i>Jeptha</i>, by John Christopherson in 1546, and another by Buchanan, in 1554. A third by Du Ple ...
... x201D;</hanging></cn> <cn><sigla>1773<tab> </tab>v1773</sigla><hanging>v1773: = JOHN Appendix [with substitution of “and” for “it”]< ...
... a kind of salt black meat made of roes of fishes, much used in Italy.' In Sir John Harrington's 33rd epigram, we find the word forming four syllables, and acc ...
99) Commentary Note for line 1608:1608 Like Iohn-a-dreames, vnpregnant of my cause,... Harvey's Hunt is up</i>, by Nashe, 1596: ‘The description of that poor <i>John a droynes</i> his man, whom he had hired, &c.' <i>John a Droynes</i> i ...
... ion of that poor <i>John a droynes</i> his man, whom he had hired, &c.' <i>John a Droynes</i> is likewise a foolish character in Whetstone's <i>Promos and ...
... cond book of Homer's <i>Iliad</i>, 1581, we are told of Jupiter that ‘<i>John dreaming</i> God he callde to him, that God, chiefe God of it, common cole ...
... g> <para>1608 <b>Iohn-a-dreames</b>] <sc>Caldecott</sc> (ed. 1819): “A John a-dreams is any one, heavy, lethargic, stupid. The word is formed, as Jack ...
... heavy, lethargic, stupid. The word is formed, as Jack a Lent, Jack a Lanthorn, John a Nokes, John a Drones, or a Droynes; and is found, as Steevens says, in Wh ...
... ic, stupid. The word is formed, as Jack a Lent, Jack a Lanthorn, John a Nokes, John a Drones, or a Droynes; and is found, as Steevens says, in Whetstone's Prom ...
... -a-dreames</b>] <sc>Singer</sc> (ed. 1826): <i>“John a dreams, </i>or <i>John a droynes, </i>was a common term for any <i>dreaming </i> or <i>droning </i ...
... <i>dreaming </i> or <i>droning </i>simpleton. There is a story told of one <i>John a droynes, </i>a Suffolk simpleton, who played the Devil in a stage play, i ...
... llow:' rather for a sleepy, apathetic fellow. The only mention yet met with of John a-dreams, is in Armin's ‘Nest of Ninnies,' 1608, recently reprinted b ...
... passage occurs: ‘His name is John, indeed, says the cinnick; but neither John a-nods, nor John a-dreames, yet either, as you take it.' John a-droynes, m ...
... ‘His name is John, indeed, says the cinnick; but neither John a-nods, nor John a-dreames, yet either, as you take it.' John a-droynes, mentioned by Whets ...
... ick; but neither John a-nods, nor John a-dreames, yet either, as you take it.' John a-droynes, mentioned by Whetstone and Nash, and referred to by Steevens, wa ...
... g> <para>1608 <b>Iohn-a-dreames</b>] <sc>Hudson</sc> (ed. 1856): “This John was probably distinguished as a sleepy, apathetic fellow, a sort of dreamin ...
... Ninnies, 1608: ‘His name is John, indeed, says the cinnick, but neither John a-nods nor <i>John a-dreams</i>, yet either, as you take it,' H.”</ ...
... 8216;His name is John, indeed, says the cinnick, but neither John a-nods nor <i>John a-dreams</i>, yet either, as you take it,' H.”</para></cn> <cn><sig ...
... Iohn-a-dreames</b>] <sc>Singer</sc> (ed. 1856): “A corresponding term <i>John a nods</i> is used by Harsnet in his Declaration of Popish Impostures, p. 1 ...
... are Society), p. 49: 'His name is John, indeede, saies the cinnick; but neither John a nods, nor John a dreames.' "</para> <para>1608 <b>vnpregnant of my cause< ...
... 49: 'His name is John, indeede, saies the cinnick; but neither John a nods, nor John a dreames.' "</para> <para>1608 <b>vnpregnant of my cause</b>] <sc>Clark</s ...
... hn-a-dreames</b>]<sc> Neil</sc> (ed. 1877): “Like Jack-a-lantern — John o' the Dreams, a dreamy impracticable fellow.”</para></cn> <cn><sigl ...
100) Commentary Note for line 1698:1698 Tis too much proou'd, that with deuotions visage... </sc></sigla><hanging>1698<tab> </tab><sc>Tooke </sc>(ms. notes, ed. 1790): Re JOHN note “!This is note writing!”</hanging></cn> <cn><sigla><sc>1 ...
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