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Notes for lines 2951-end ed. Hardin A. Aasand
3078+10 {Of the vnworthiest siedge.} | 4.7.76 |
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1668 Skinner
Skinner
3078+10 siedge] Skinner (1668, sedge): “ab. AS. [Sæcg, Gladiolus, Miles, item Gladiolus, Carex, Belg. Seck, Carex, à Secando, quia sc. facilè secatur, vel potiùs ab acutis foliorum marginibus quæ comprimentis manum secant, eadem ratione Lat. Gladiolus, Gr. xurˆs ¡ xur_s , Novacula, dicitur.” [from the Anglo Saxon[ ]
1710 Gildon
Gildon
3078+10 siedge] Gildon (apud Rowe, ed. 1709 [1710], p. lxxib): “excrement.”
1744 han1
han1
3078+10 siedge] Hanmer (ed. 1744: Glossary): “a seat; also (Vol. 1.38) the fundament of a man in which sense the French often use it; Mal au siege: une fistula au siege.”
1753 blair
blair = han1 w/o attribution
3078+10 siedge] Blair (ed. 1753, Glossary)
1760 John2
John2 : standard
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Johnson (2nd ed. 1760, siege, 4): “
Siege, French] 4. Place; class; rank
Shakespeare”
1765 john1
john1 : john2
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Johnson (ed. 1765):“Of the lowest rank. Siege, for seat,
place.”
1773 v1773
v1773=john1
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1773 jen
jen≈v1773
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1774-79? capn
capn: new note
3078+10 Of the vnworthiest siedge.]Capell (1779-83 [1774]: 1:1:145): “This is but the phrase of a school, mounted on stilts: what the Poet had in his head, was —lowest form; and we must have the same, if we mean to conceive him. “ siege “ is — seat.”
1778 v1778
v1778=v1773+
3078+10 siedge] Steevens (ed. 1778): “ So, in Oth (1.2.21-2 [225-6]):‘—I fetch my birth From men of royal siege .” Steevens misquotes “I fetch my life and being From men . . .”
1784 ays1
ays1 = john1 w/o attribution
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1785 v1785
v1785=v1778
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1787 ann
ann = v1785
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1790 mal
mal=v1785
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1791- rann
rann≈ standard (minus Othello parellel)
3078+10 siedge] Rann (ed. 1791) writes: “ Of the lowest seat, form, rank of your accomplishments.”
1793 v1793
v1793=mal
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1803 v1803
v1803=v1793
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1813 v1813
v1813=v1803
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1819 cald1
cald1≈v1813
3078+10 siedge] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “Place or rank. See [Oth. 1.2.? (225-6)] Othel.”
1821 v1821
v1821=v1813
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v1821
3078+10 siedge] Boswell (ed. 1821, 21:Glossary): “place, or rank.”
1822 Nares
Nares : standard
3078+10 siedge] Nares (1822; 1906): “s. Seat. French. Rank, or estimation: [cites Ham. iv.7/Oth. 1.1.2]
1826 sing1
sing1≈v1821without attribution
3078+10 siedge] Singer (ed. 1826): “Of the unworthiest siege, of the lowest rank; siege for seat or place:— Oth (1.2.21-2 [225-6]):‘—I fetch my birth From men of royal siege .’”
1832 cald2
cald2 = cald1
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1833 valpy
valpy ≈ standard
3078+10 siedge] Valpy (ed. 1833): “Of the lowest rank.”
1843 col1
col1≈ cald2+ magenta underlined
3078+10 siedge] Collier (ed. 1843) : “Shakespeare was by no means peculiar in this respect.”
1844 verp
verp ≈ standard
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Verplanck (ed. 1844): “
Siege is here used as in [
Oth. 1.2.? (225-6)] for
seat; and denotes place or rank, as in other poets of that age.”
1854 del2
del2 = standard
3078+10 siedge] Delius (ed. 1854): “eigentlich=Sitz, gebraucht Sh. auch sonst=Stellung, Rang.” [“Specifically, it means seat; Sh. also uses it elsewhere as place or rung.”]
1856 hud1 (1851-6)
hud1 ≈ cald2 ; ≈sing1
3078+10 siedge] Hudson (ed. 1856): “The Poet again uses siege for seat, that is, place or rank, in [Oth. 12.? (225-6)]: ‘I fetch my life and being from hen of royal siege.’ The usage was not uncommon. H.”
1856b sing2
sing2=sing1
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1857 elze
elze1 : john1 ; Nares
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1858 col3
col3= col1 (minus the 1843 new note)
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col3 : standard
3078+10 siedge] Collier (ed. 1858, Glossary): “seat.”
1859 stau
stau ≈ v1773
3078+10 vnworthiest siedge] Staunton (ed. 1859): “Siege is seat, place, state; and the meaning therefore is, Of the most ignoble rank.”
1864a glo
glo : standard
3078+10 siedge] Clark & Wright (ed. 1864, Glossary) : “ sb. rank”
1864b ktly
ktly : standard
3078+10 siedge] Keightley (ed. 1864 [1866]: Glossary):”a stool or seat.”
1864-68 c&mc
c&mc
3078+10 siedge] Clarke & Clarke (ed. 1864-68, rpt. 1874-78): “Strictly, ‘seat,’ ‘place,’ ‘state,’ ‘position;’ but here used to signify ‘rank,’ ‘order of merit.’”
3078+10 siedge] Clarke (ed. 1864, Glossary): “Station.”
1869 tsch
tsch
3078+10 siedge] Tschischwitz (ed. 1869): “siege spielt auf die eigenthümliche Einrichtung germanischer Gastmähler an, wo die vornehmeren Personen über dem Salzfasse, dem Wirthe näher, die geringeren weiter entfernt sassen.” [siege plays with the specific furnishings of the German banquet, where the noble pesons sit nearer to the salt container, nearer to the host, the inferior more distant.”]
1870 rug1
rug1 : standard
3078+10 siedge] Moberly (ed. 1873): “of the least worthy seat or level.”
1872 del4
del4 = del2
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1872 cln1
cln1: standard
3078+10 siedge] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “Seat, thence rank, because people sat at a table and elsewhere in order of precedence. Compare [MM 4.2.101 (1960)]: ‘Upon the very siege of justice.’ And [Oth. 1.2.22 (225-6)].”
1872 hud2
hud2=hud1
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1873 rug2
rug2=rug1
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1877 col4
col4 = col3
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{Ed. One of the few notes that col4 retains from its predecessors].
1877 v1877
v1877 : ≈ john1 ; cln1 (minus MM and Oth. //)
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Clark & Wright (
apud Furness, ed. 1872): “Seat, thence
rank, because sat at table and elsewhere in order of precedence.”
1881 hud3
hud3 = hud2
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1883 wh2
wh2 : standard
3078+10 siedge] White (ed. 1883): “seat, degree, rank.”
1885 macd
macd ≈ standard
3078+10 siedge] MacDonald (ed. 1885): <n></n>
1885 mull
mull ≈ rug2 w/o attribution
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1890 irv2
irv2 : standard
3078+10 siedge] Symons (in Irving & Marshall, ed. 1890): “lowest rank.”
1891 oxf1
oxf1: standard
3078+10 siedge] Craig (ed. 1891: Glossary): “sub. rank [Oth. 1.2.22 (225-6)].”
1899 ard1
ard1 : standard
3078+10 siedge] Dowden (ed. 1899): “rank (literally, seat), as in [Oth. 1.2.22 (225-6)]: ‘men of royal siege.’”
1905 rltr
ard1 : standard
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1906 nlsn
nlsn: standard
3078+9 regard] Neilson (ed. 1906, Glossary)
3078+10 siedge] Neilson (ed. 1906, Glossary)
1931 crg2
crg2 ≈ standard
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1934a cam3
cam3 : standard
3078+9 regard] Wilson (ed. 1934, Glossary)
3078+10 siedge] Wilson (ed. 1934, Glossary)
1934b rid1
rid1: standard
3078+10 siedge] Ridley (ed. 1934, Glossary):
1938 parc
parc : standard
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1939 kit2
kit2≈ standard
3078+9 regard] Kittredge (ed. 1939, Glossary):
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3078+10 siedge] Kittredge (ed. 1939, Glossary):
1942 n&h
n&h ≈ standard
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1947 cln2
cln2 ≈ standard
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1951 alex
alex ≈ standard
3078+10 siedge] Alexander (ed. 1951, Glossary)
1951 crg2
crg2= crg1
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1957 pel1
pel1 : standard
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1970 pel2
pel2=pel1
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1974 evns1
evns1
3078+10 vnworthiest] Evans (ed. 1974): “i.e. least important (with no implication of unsuitableness).”
evns1 ≈ standard
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1980 pen2
pen2 ≈ standard
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1982 ard2
ard2 ≈ standard
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1984 chal
chal : standard
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1985 cam4
cam4
3078+10 Edwards (ed. 1985): “Of the least account. Claudius flatters Laertes by saying that the great skill in arms which Hamlet so envied is the least of his virtues.”
1987 OXF4
oxf4 : Oth.// ; OED
3078+10 siedge] Hibbard (ed. 1987, Appendix, p. 365): <p. 365>“rank ((OED sb. 1)).”
1988 bev2
bev2 ≈ standard
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1992 fol2
fol2≈ standard
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1993 dent
dent ≈ standard
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