Notes for lines 0-1017 ed. Bernice W. Kliman
| 898 Enquire me first what Danskers are in Parris, | 2.1.7 |
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898 899 900 1751- Hoadly
Hoadly
898 Danskers] Hoadly (ms. note, ed. 1751): “i.e. Danes. The same Word us’d by W[illia]m Warner (an excellent Post in [the] Service of L[or]d Hunsdown the Elder; tho both Father and Son were his Patrons) in a fine pastoral Episode in his large historical Poem—’By chance one (uran, Son unto A Prince of Danske, did see The Mayde—&c.’”
1773- mstv1
mstv1
898 Danskers] Steevens (ms. notes, ed. 1773): “Danskers, perhaps, Danes, men from Denmark.”
Ed. note: Steevens may have written the note after seeing capn in 1774 when it was first published. Due evidently to Steevens’ efforts, Capell’s notes were withdrawn and did not reappear until 1783, after Capell’s death.
Steevens v1778 differs from mstv1
v1877 credits this same ref to Warner’s Albion’s England to Capell (1: 128);
1774 capn
capn
898 Danskers] Capell (1774, 1:1:128) admits that “Dantz’ckers ”in his 1768 ed. was a hasty correction, and must be retracted: “Danskers” (which is the word of the copies) had never been met with, neither has it been yet; but Danske for Denmark, occurs often in “Albion’s England,” an old poem that is not very scarce, but which the editor met with but lately.”
1778 v1778
v1778 ≈ capn without attribution
898 Danskers] Steevens (ed. 1778): “Danske (in Warner’s Albion’s England) is the ancient name of Denmark.”
1785 v1785
v1785 = v1778
898 Danskers]
1787 ann
ann = v1785
898 Danskers]
1790 mal
mal = v1785
898 Danskers]
898: Malone could of course have referred to Capell, but there is a conspiracy of silence abt CAP and CAPN as there is abt JEN. He quotes Ste, probably from v1785
1791- rann
rann: standard
898 Danskers] Rann (ed. 1791-): “Natives of Denmark.”
1803 v1803
v1803 = v1793
898 Danskers]
1805 Seymour
Seymour: standard + 2 unidentified analogues
898 Danskers] Seymour (1805, 2:165): “‘Danskers’ are Danes: ‘It is the King of Denmarke doth your prince his daughter craue, And note it is no little thing with us allie to haue; By league or leigure Danske can fence or fronte you, friend or foe, Our neighbourhood doth fit to both your welfare or your woe.’
“Again: ‘Let Cutlake, with his crowne of Danske, uncrowne me if he can; Of England, Danske, and Norway, then Canut was perfect lord.’”
1813 v1813
v1813 = v1803
898 Danskers]
1819 cald1
cald1 = Steevens v1778 +
898 Danskers] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “‘Let us but look into the Giant’s age, Danske Corioneus, English Albion,’ Life and death of Sir J. Oldcastle, 4to. 1601. Signat. C.2.”
1821 v1821
v1821 = v1813
898 Danskers]
1826 sing1
sing1 ≈ capn without attribution (but likely by way of Steevens’s appropriation)
898 Danskers] Singer (ed. 1826): “ i.e. Danes. Warner, in his Albion’s England, calls Denmark Danske.”
1832 cald2
cald2 = cald1
898 Danskers]
Caldecott (ed. 1832): “‘Let us but look into the Giant’s age,
Danske Corioneus, English Albion,’
Life and death of Sir J. Oldcastle, 4to. 1601. Sign. C.2.”
1839 knt1
knt1 = sing without attribution
898 Danskers] Knight (ed. [1839]): “In Warner’s ‘Albion’s England,’ Danske is given as the ancient name of Denmark.”
1833 valpy
valpy: standard
898 Danskers] Valpy (ed. 1833): “Danes.”
1853 Clarke
Clarke
898 Danskers] Clarke (1853): Found only here.
1854 del2
del2
898 Danskers] Delius (ed. 1854): “Danskers ist im Englischen eine scherzhafte, aus dem Dänischen selbst entlehnte Bezeichnung der Dänen. Bei Sh.’s Zeitgenossen Webster kommt ebenso adjectivisch vor: like a Dansk drummer.” [Danskers is in English a humorous term, borrowed from the Danish itself. Sh.’s contemporary Webster has the same, in adjectival form: like a Dansk drummer.]
I’d have a better idea of his note for 899 if I knew more about linguistics.
1856 hud1
hud1: standard (gloss and Warner’s Albion)
898 Danskers]
1856 sing2
sing2 = sing1
898 Danskers]
1860 stau
stau: standard
898 Danskers] Staunton (ed. 1860): “Danes.”
1862 cham
cham: standard
898 Danskers]
1865 hal
hal: standard gloss +
898 Danskers]
Halliwell (ed. 1865): “
Danske is common for
Danish, but I have met no example of the substantive. ‘Danske Corineus, English Albion,’ Life and Death of Sir
John Oldcastle, 1601.”
1868 c&mc
c&mc
898 me]
Clarke &
Clarke (ed. 1868): “used idomatically, in the sense of ‘for me’ (See [
MV 2.2.108 (669), n. 33].”
c&mc: standard gloss and Warner ’s Albion’s England without attribution
898 Danskers]
1872 cln1
cln1 ≈ c&mc without attribution
898 me] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “enclitic, here having the sense of the dative. Compare [MV 2.2.108 (669)]: ‘Give me your present to one Master Bassanio.’”
Ed. note: me is unaccented, throwing the accent on the next syllable.
cln1: standard
898 Danskers]
1872 hud2
hud2 ≈ hud1 (minus Warner Albion’s England)
898 Danskers] Hudson (ed. 1872): “Dansker is Dane; Dansk beingthe ancient name of Denmark.”
1873 rug2
rug2
898-900 Enquire . . . expence] Moberly (ed. 1873): “‘Find out,’ says Polonius, ‘how they live, with whom they associate, what their fortune is, where they lodge, what company they keep, and at what cost.’”
1877 v1877
v1877 = capn (minus retraction)
898 Danskers]
Furness (ed. 1877):
Capell (i. 128):
Dansk, for Denmark, occurs often in
Albion’s England.”
1881 hud3
hud3 = hud2
898 Danskers]
1883 wh2
wh2: standard
898 Danskers] White (ed. 1883): “So the Danes call themselves.”
1885 mull
mull : standard
898 Danskers]
1904 ver
ver ≈ cln1 without attribution + in magenta underlined
898 Enquire me] Verity (ed. 1904): “the so-called ethic dative. [. . . ].
“Polonius’s spying on Laertes illustrates his love of tortuous, underhand methods, and prepares us for his dealings with Hamlet.”
Ed. note: The ethic or ethical dative according to the OED implies that someone other than the subject [here you understood] has an interest in the matter at hand.
ver
898 Danskers] Elton (apud Verity, ed. 1904) “notes that the University of Paris was a common resort of Danes.”
1929 trav
trav
898 me]
Travers (ed. 1929) thinks this is “more subtle than ‘for me.’”
1938 parc
parc
898 Danskers] Parrott & Craig (ed. 1938): “Danes.”
1939 kit2
kit2: contra trav?
898 me] Kittredge (ed. 1939): "Literally ’for me’; but used colloquially without any special significance."
kit2: standard
898 Danskers] Kittredge (ed. 1939): "Danes."
1947 cln2
cln2: standard
898 Danskers] Rylands (ed. 1947): "Danes."
1957 pel1
pel1: standard
898 Danskers] Farnham (ed. 1957): “Danes.”
1964-5 Sjögren
Sjögren
898 Danskers]
Sjögren (1664-5, rpt. 2002, pp. 64-5): <p. 64> The mistake editors make in glossing this word ’Danes’ is understandable because “in modern Danish Dansker does in fact mean a Dane. But in Shakespeare’s time it was not so. Dansker then signified something coming from Danzig . . . Gdansk in Polish. The name derives from the fact that the place was once a Danish settlement and a part of the kingdom of Canute.” He quotes a passage from
Purchas his Pilgrimes, [Hakluyt Society Works (Glasgow, 1905-7): 13:451]: The merchant George Barkley travels to “Elsinore [[. . .]] where the Danish custom is taken, to Copenhagen, thence to Bornholm, thence to Danske, a towne subject to the Pole.” </p. 64> <p. 65> Sjögren multiplies examples showing that in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century, travelers knew their Poland from their Denmark. However, there were those, including
John Webster in
The White Devil, (1612) who confused Danske with Denmark, and Shakespeare may also have been one. <p. 65>
1970 pel2
pel2 = pel1
898 Danskers] Farnham (ed. 1970): “Danes”
1980 pen2
pen2
898 me] Spencer (ed. 1980): “(the indefinite indirect object (the ’ethic dative’), used so as to give an air of ingratiating ease).”
pen2
898 Danskers] Spencer (ed. 1980): “Danes (his fellow-countrymen). The unusually correct form of the word seems to imply Shakespeare’s interest in giving local colour.”
1982 ard2
ard2 = Sjögren and others
898 Danskers] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “Danes. The context leaves no doubt that this, as in modern Danish, means Danes. But a Dansker in Shakespeare’s time was strictly a citizen of Dansk or Danzig —as in Purchas (Pilgrimes, 1905-7, 12: 53) and Fynes Moryson (Itinerary, 1907-8, 4: 22, ’The English Merchants trading for Poland . . . first had their Staple at Dantzk in Prussen. . . . But when the Dantzkers . . .’). It was easy for the Elizabethans to confuse dansk (Danish), Danske (Danes) with Dansk (Danzig), Dansker (a Danziger). See G. Langenfelt (’Literary Contributions’, Stockholm Studies in Modern Philology, 17: 1949, and ’Shakespeare’s Danskers’, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 12: 1964), who further suggests that the emergence in the 17th century of the forms. Dansig and Dansicker encouraged the association of Dansk and Dansker with Denmark. (See also Dollerup, pp. 161-4.) The confusion was not only linguistic. Drayton not merely gives Dansk as the place from which the Angles and Jutes came to England (Polyolbion, 11: 189), but, while correctly placing ’Dansig’ at the mouth of the Vistula, refers to this as ’the greatest river of Danske’ flowing ’into the Sound’ (ibid., 19: 191-2). G. Sjögren (’A Contribution to the Geography of Hamlet’, Sh. Jahr., 100-101: 1964-5) suggests that it may have been some such confusion that led Shakespeare to suppose that Denmark bordered on Poland (1102, 2735-8).”
1985 cam4
cam4
898 Danskers] Edwards (ed. 1985): "Danes."
1987 oxf4
oxf4 = Abbott § 220
898 me]
oxf4: standard
898 Danskers] Hibbard (ed. 1987): "Danes."
1988 bev2
bev2: standard
898 Danskers] Bevington (ed. 1988): “Danes”
1992 fol2
fol2: standard
898 Enquire me] Mowat & Werstine (ed. 1992): “i.e., inquire on my behalf”
fol2: standard
898 Danskers] Mowat & Werstine (ed. 1992): “Danes”
2006 ard3q2
ard3q2: Hope
898 me] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “for me (ethical dative: see Hope, 1.3.2i)”
ard3q2: pen2; ≈ ard2 without attribution; OED
898 Danskers] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “Danes. Spencer calls this an ’unusually correct’ form, though some have argued that it really means ’citizens of Gdansk or Danzig’ (a city now in Poland, well known to travelling English actors in Shakespeare’s time); this is the only example listed in OED, though there is a cross-reference to Spenser’s description of Concord in the Temple of Venus: ’for on her head a crowne / She wore much like vnto a Danisk hood’ (FQ, 4.10.31), where ’Danisk’ apparently means Danish.”
