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181) Commentary Note for lines 1463-4:
1463-4 passe, as most like it was; the first rowe of the | {pious chanson} <Pons Chanson> will

    ... ng><sc>john1 : pope, rowe, han</sc></hanging> <para>1464 <b> pious chanson</b>] JOHNSON (ed. 1765) cites Pope; reads &#8216;rubrick:' &#x201C;It is <i>pons chan ...

    ... <para>&#x201C;[In his appendix to vol 8, p. 198 (appendix not itself numbered) JOHNSON adds the following, attributing to Mr. STEEVENS]: &#x201C;The words <i>o ...

    ... repeating ends of old songs.&#x201D; </para> <para>1464 <b> pious chanson</b>] JOHNSON (ed. 1773): &#x201C;It is the <i>pons chansons</i> in the quarto too. I ...
182) Commentary Note for lines 1464-5:
1464-5 showe you more, for looke where my | {abridgment comes} <Abridgements come>.

    ... hn1</sc></sigla><hanging><sc>john1</sc></hanging> <para>1465 <b>abridgment</b>]JOHNSON (ed. 1765): &#x201C;He calls the players afterwards, <i>the brief chron ...

    ... tab> </tab>v1773</sigla><hanging>v1773</hanging> <para>1465 <b>abridgment</b>] JOHNSON (ed. 17730): &#x201C;He calls the players afterwards, <i>the brief chron ...

    ... 1465 <b>abridgment comes</b>] <sc>Ayscough</sc> (ed. 1784): &#x201C;i.e. as Dr. Johnson thinks, <i>those who will shorten my talk</i>. An <i>abridgment</i> is u ...

    ... used expletively, as hath been remarked of <i>me</i> upon a former passage. Dr. Johnson is evidently mistaken when he explains &#8216;abridgement,' &#8216;that ...

    ... Say what <i>abridgment</i> have you for this evening? What masque? what music?' Johnson noted that <i>abridgement</i> might also be used in the sense of &#8216 ...
183) Commentary Note for lines 1472-3:
1472-3 chopine, pray God | your voyce like a peece of vncurrant gold,

    ... their height. It is often mentioned in the writers of Shakespeare's age. Ben Johnson, T. Heywood, Dekker, and other dramatists, speak of it in the same way , ...
184) Commentary Note for lines 1473-4:
1473-4 bee not crackt | within the ring: maisters you are all welcome,

    ... 5<tab> </tab>john1</sc></sigla><hanging>1473<tab> </tab>voyce . . . crackt] <sc>johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): &#x201C;That is, <i>crack'd too much for use. </i>This ...
185) Commentary Note for lines 1474-7:
1474-5 weele en | to't like {friendly Fankners} <French Faulconers>, fly at any thing we see,
1475-7 weele | haue a speech straite, come giue vs a tast of your qua|lity,

    ... tab> </tab>john1</sc></sigla><hanging>1475<tab> </tab><b>friendly Fankners</b>] JOHNSON (ed. 1765): &#x201C;<i>Hanmer</i>, who has much illustrated the allusion ...
186) Commentary Note for lines 1481-2:
1481-2 the million, t'was cauiary to the | generall, but it was as I receaued

    ... <cn><sigla><sc>1765<tab> </tab>john1</sc></sigla><hanging>1481 <b>cauiary</b>] JOHNSON (ed. 1765): &#x201C;<i>Caviare </i>was a kind of foreign pickle, to whi ...
187) Commentary Note for line 1524:
1524 A silence in the heauens, the racke stand still,

    ... : &#x201C;The<i> rack</i> is the <i>clouds,</i> formed by vaporous exhalation. Johnson has chosen this passage and one in Dryden of the same import to exemplif ...
188) Commentary Note for line 1542:
1542 {Player} < 1. Play>. But who, {a woe} <O who>, had seene the {mobled} <inobled> Queene,

    ... a><hanging><sc>john1: warb</sc></hanging> <para>1542 <b>mobled Queene</b>] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): &#x201C;<i>Mobled</i> signifies, <i>huddled, grossly c ...

    ... ton, <i>mobled</i>, or <i>mabled</i>, signifies <i>veiled</i>; according to Dr. Johnson, it is <i>huddled</i>, <i>grossly covered</i>. Mr. Steevens says, he was ...
189) Commentary Note for line 1601:
1601 Had he the {motiue, and that} <the Motiue and the Cue> for passion

    ... 1</sc></sigla><hanging><sc>john1</sc></hanging> <para>1601 <b>the Cue</b>] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): &#x201C;The <i>hint</i>, the <i>direction.</i>&#x201D; ...
190) Commentary Note for line 1603:
1603 And cleaue the generall eare with horrid speech,

    ... >1765<tab> </tab>john1</sc></sigla><hanging>1603 <b>the generall eare</b>] <sc>Johnson</sc> (ed. 1765): &#x201C;The ears of all mankind. So before, <i>Caviare ...

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