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Notes for lines 0-1017 ed. Bernice W. Kliman
For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.
144 For it is as the ayre, invulnerable,1.1.145
1755- mMal
mMal
144 air] Malone (1755-) : “The more ancient phrase was —to take the benefit of the air—’He’s walked abroad to take the benefit of the ayre.’ Returne from Parnassus anon [anon.?] 1606.”
Ed. note: The Return from Parnassus : or, The Scourge of Simony publicly acted by the students of Saint John’s College in Cambridge. <In January 1602. Printed> 1606 ; Edited by Edward Arber.
1790 mal
mal
144 as the ayre, invulnerable] Malone (ed. 1790): “So in [Mac. 5.8.9 (2448)] : ‘As easy may’st thou the intrenchant air, With thy keen blade impress’ and [Jn. 2.1. 252 (558)]: “Against the invulnerable clouds of heaven.’ Malone.
1793 v1793
v1793 = mal
144 as the ayre, invulnerable]
1803 v1803
v1803 = v1793
144 as the ayre, invulnerable]
1805 Seymour
Seymour
144-5 Seymour (1805, 2:141): “Howsoever hypercritical it may appear, I cannot help remarking the impropriety of impressing, thus, by means of a conjunction, the singular verb into the plural service.— ‘It’ us invulnerable, and our blows ‘are,’ it should be, mockery.”
1813 v1813
v1813 = v1803
144 as the ayre, invulnerable]
1819 cald1
cald1 = mal
144 as the ayre, invulnerable]
1821 v1821
v1821 = v1813
144 as the ayre, invulnerable]
1826 sing1
sing1= mal without attribution
144 as the ayre, invulnerable]
1832 cald2
cald2 = cald1
144 as the ayre, invulnerable]
1856 sing2
sing2 = sing1
144 as the ayre, invulnerable]
1877 v1877
v1877: //s = mal without attribution Mac. 5.8.9 and Jn. 2.1.252, no quotations.
144 as the ayre, invulnerable]
1878 rlf1
rlf1 = v1821
144 as the ayre, invulnerable]
1903 rlf3
rlf3 = rlf1 without attribution to mal (= v1877)
144 as the ayre, invulnerable]
1912 dtn3
dtn3
144-5 Deighton (ed. 1912): “I say ‘show of violence,’ for it, like the air, is invulnerable, and our blows thus spent in vain are but the merest mockery of enmity.”
dtn3 //s Mac. 5.8.9, + Tmp. 3.3.62-4
144 invulnerable] Deighton (ed. 1912): Tmp. 3.3.62-4 (1596-8): “‘as well Wound the loud winds, or with bemock’d-at stabs Kill the still-closing waters.’”
1982 ard2
ard2
144 as the ayre] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “The orthodox view.” He quotes Le Loyer (1586) 3: 8 and Taillepied, ch. 16, to that effect.
1987 oxf4
oxf4mal Jn. // without attribution +
144-5 Hibbard (ed. 1987) notes the similarity of expressions here and in Jn. 2.1.251-2 (557-8): “The two passages are a fascinating example of the way in which certain words were associated with one another in Shakespeare’s mind.”
1996 Kliman
Kliman
144 as the ayre] Kliman (1996): Punctuation either suggests that the spirit is invulnerable, or that it is like the air, which is invulnerable, a minute difference.
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