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Contract Context Printing 160 characters of context... Expand Context 591) Commentary Note for line 3161:3161 Of Crowflowers, Nettles, Daises, and long Purples... fficiently known in many parts of England, and particularly in the county where Shakespeare lived. Thus far Mr. Warner. Mr. Collins adds, that in Sussex it is ...
... owered orchis (<i>mascula</i>) rather than this, to be the long purple to which Shakespeare refers.”</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1882<tab> </tab><sc>Elze2</s ...
... eare's Garden</i>, p. 160)). See also <i>N&Q</i>, x, 225-7; Grindon, <i>The Shakespeare Flora</i>, p. 129; Britten and Holland, <i>Dictionary of English Pla ...
592) Commentary Note for line 3162:3162 That liberall Shepheards giue a grosser name,... l</b>] <sc>Hudson</sc> (ed. 1872): “<i>Liberal</i> is repeatedly used by Shakespeare for <i>loose-tongued</i>.”</para></cn> <cn> <sigla>1877<tab> ...
... >a grosser name</b>] <sc>Jenkins</sc> (ed. 1982): “ We cannot know which Shakespeare had particularly in mind, but recorded names for the orchis, derived ...
593) Commentary Note for line 3163:3163 But our {cull-cold} <cold> maydes doe dead mens fingers call them.... 987): “‘a local name for various species of <i>Orchis</i> . . . in Shakespeare probably the Early Purple Orchis, <i>Orchis mascula</i>' ((<i>OED de ...
... the truest touches of tenderness and pathos. It is a character which nobody but Shakespeare could have drawn, and to the conception of which there is not the sm ...
... ether they were also the fashion in England or how </p. 71> <p. 72> Shakespeare came to know of them is not clear. But it can hardly be questioned t ...
... <i>Old Picture Books </i>(pp. 15-22) by Dr. A. W. Pollard. It is possible that Shakespeare had in mind also Psalms cxlviii-cl which are sung at the service of ...
595) Commentary Note for line 3172:3172 Vnto that elament, but long it could not be... Gertrude should have watched Ophelia die without lifting a finger to help her. Shakespeare wrote for a theatre audience before the realistic novel had come int ...
... >Herr</sc> (1879, pp. 123-4) : <p. 123>“As to drown, it is used by Shakespeare in the sense of ‘o'erwhelm,' ‘extinguish,' and can be ju ...
... drowns' is plainly more suitable, it may hence reasonably be questioned whether Shakespeare ever wrote <i>doubts</i> in either, all being typographical blunders ...
... r, all being typographical blunders. These are the <i>only</i> four passages in Shakespeare where the word ‘douts or doubts' occurs, and in all of them it ...
597) Commentary Note for line 3189:3189 Enter two Clownes.... ditative, the solemn, the playful, the grotesque, make up such a combination as Shakespeare only could conceive. Here we have the hero's profound discourse of t ...
... ing more refreshing than a series of dreary and solemn platitudes on death; but Shakespeare extorts from us involuntary smiles at the humours of two simple clow ...
598) Commentary Note for line 3198_319:3198-9 Clowne. It must be {so offended} <Se offendendo>, it cannot be els, for | heere lyes the... <sc>Neil </sc>(ed. 1877, Notes): “in self-injury, used intentionally by Shakespeare instead of <i>se defendendo</i>, in self-defence.”</para></cn ...
... aw</b>.] <sc>Rushton</sc> (1907, pp. 47-48): <p.47> “It seems that Shakespeare has made the first clown confound a felo de se, or one who is guilty ...
599) Commentary Note for lines 3200-02:3200-01 three branches, it is {to} <an>| act, to doe, <and> to performe, {or all;} <argall> she drownd her3201-2 selfe | wittingly.... <b>branches</b>] <sc>Spencer</sc> (ed. 1980): “divisions of an argument. Shakespeare is doubtless making fun of the over-systematic distinctions and quib ...
600) Commentary Note for line 3203:3203 Other. Nay, but heare you good man deluer.... odman </i>was especially used when designating a man by his occupation. Clearly Shakespeare does not think of the second man as a grave-digger.”</para></ ...
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