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Notes for lines 0-1017 ed. Bernice W. Kliman
For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.
1000 Whose violent propertie fordoos it selfe, 2.1.100
9351000 3410 3470
1773- mstv1
mstv1
1000 fordoos] Steevens (1773 -): “destroys, ruins.”
-1778 mmal1
mmal1
1000 fordoos] Malone (-1778, fol. 51v): “Destroys.— So in a Warning for faire Women Frag. 1599 ‘Speak, who has done this deed? thou has not foredone thyself Hast thou?’”
1778 v1778
v1778 ≈ mstv1 + //
1000 fordoos] Steevens (ed. 1778): “To fordo is to destroy. So, in [Oth. 5.1.129 (3237)]: ‘That either makes me, or fordoes me quite’ Steevens.”
1785 v1785
v1785 = v1778
1000 fordoos]
1787 ann
ann = v1785
1000 fordoos]
1790 mal
mal = v1785
1000 fordoos]
1791- rann
rann = mal without attribution minus all but gloss.
1000 fordoos] Rann (ed. 1791-): “destroys.”
1793 v1793
v1793 = mal
1000 fordoos]
1803 v1803
v1803 = v1793
1000 fordoos]
1813 v1813
v1813 = v1803
1000 fordoos]
1819 cald1
cald1rann without attribution + in magenta underlined
1000 fordoos] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “Brings to a premature end, destroys, [3410] Haml.
1821 v1821
v1821 = v1813
1000 fordoos]
1822 Nares
Nares
1000 fordoos] Nares (1822): “To Foredo. to undo, to destroyl fore, or for with its negative power.” [quotes 1000, Oth., Lr., F.Q., Mirror for Magistrates.]
1826 sing1
sing1 = v1813; Nares without attribution
1000 fordoos] Singer (ed. 1826): “To foredo and to undo were synonymous. Thus in Othello: — ‘That either makes me or fordoes me quite.’”
1832 cald2
cald2 = cald1
1000 fordoos]
1833 valpy
valpy: standard
1000 fordoos] Valpy (ed. 1833): “Destroys.”
1839 knt1
knt1: standard
1000 fordoos] Knight (ed. [1839]): “destroys—undoes.”
1853- mEliot
mEliot: cald without attribution for xref + the comparable constructions
1000 fordoos] Eliot (ms. notes 1853-): “fordo = undo. forgo, forbear &c. forspend. [p.?] 935”
1856 hud1
hud1 = sing1 minus Oth. //
1000 fordoos]
1856 sing2
sing2 = sing1
1000 fordoos]
1868 c&mc
c&mc: standard
1000 fordoos] Clarke & Clarke (ed. 1868): “‘Undoes,’ ‘destroys.’ See [2H4 1.s.l. (00), n. 2].
1870 rug1
rug1: Steevens Oth. // only, without attribution, no gloss
1000 fordoos]
1872 cln1
cln1: standard + in magenta underlined
1000 fordoos] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “destroys. See [3470]. ‘For,’ like the German ver, has a negative sense in composition, as ‘forget,’ ‘forgo,’ ‘forbear,’ ‘forbid,’ ‘forswear.’ Sometimes also, like ver, it is intensive, as in ‘forgive, ‘forwearied,’ ‘forspent.’”
1872 hud2
hud2: standard
1000 fordoos]
1873 rug2
rug2 = rug1
1000 fordoos]
1877 v1877
v1877: Steevens, Nares, cln1 (only abt the intensive), + MND //
1000 fordoos] Furness (ed. 1877): “Steevens: To destroy. Nares: For has here its negative power. Clarendon: Like the German ver, it is also sometimes intensive, as in ‘forgive,’ ‘forwearied,’ ‘forspent.’ [[It is so used in the past participle of this very verb in [MND 5.1.374 (2157), ‘with weary task fordone.’—Ed.]]”
1881 hud3
hud3 = hud2
1000 fordoos]
1885 macd
macd: standard + synonym in magenta
1000 fordoos] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “undoes, frustrates, destroys.
1885 mull
mull
1000 fordoos] Mull (ed. 1885): “overcomes.
1904 ver
ver
1000 propertie] Verity (ed. 1904): “character, nature; cf. ‘proper to’ = natural to.”
ver: standard gloss; derivation. ≈ cln1 without attribution
1000 fordoos] Verity (ed. 1904): “destroys; see G.” Verity (ed. 1904, glossary): “literally = ‘to do away with. The prefix for- has its privative force = ‘away.’”
1906 nlsn
nlsnG: standard + in magenta underlined
1000 fordoos] Neilson (ed. 1906): “Fordo, destroy; exhaust.”
1929 trav
travver without attribution
1000 Whose . . . propertie] Travers (ed. 1929): “the violence proper (= natural) to which.”
trav: standard + in magenta underlined
1000 fordoos Travers (ed. 1929): “(with ‘for’ privative, as in ‘forget’) = does away with, destroys.”
1934 rid1
rid1
1000 propertie] Ridley (ed. 1934, Glossary): “qualitie”
1938 parc
parc
1000 propertie] Parrott & Craig (ed. 1938): “quality.”

parc
1000 fordoos] Parrott & Craig (ed. 1938): “destroys.”
1939 kit2
kit2: standard
1000 Kittredge (ed. 1939): "which has this property when it is violent— that it destroys itself (i.e., the person who suffers from it). Cf. Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, iii, 2, 4 (ed. 1638, p. 538): ’For if this passion continue,’ saith AElian Montaltus. ’it makes the blood hot, thick and black, and if the inflammation get into the braine, with continual meditation and waking, it so dries up that madness followes, or else they make away themselves.’ "
1947 cln2
cln2 = ver without attribution
1000 propertie] Rylands (ed. 1947): "nature."
cln2: standard
1000 fordoos] Rylands (ed. 1947): "undoes."
1957 pel1
pel1: standard
1000 propertie] Farnham (ed. 1957): “quality.”

pel1: standard
1000 fordoos] Farnham (ed. 1957): “destroys.”
1970 pel2
pel2 = pel1
1000 propertie] Farnham (ed. 1970): “quality”

pel2 = pel1
1000 fordoos] Farnham (ed. 1970): “destroys”
1980 pen2
pen2
1000 violent propertie] Spencer (ed. 1980): “quality of being violent.”

pen2: standard
1000 fordoos] Spencer (ed. 1980): “damages.”
1982 ard2
ard2:
1000 Jenkins (ed. 1982): “the violent nature of which leads to self-destruction. Sufferers from love-madness were held liable to suicide. property, that which is proper or natural to anything (cf. proper, 1012), characteristic. fordoes, destroys (the Old English sense). Cf. 3410. Itself refers not to property but to ecstasy.
1985 cam4
cam4
1000 Edwards (ed. 1985): "Which has violence enough to cause self-destruction."
1987 oxf4
oxf4: standard
1000 Hibbard (ed. 1987): "i.e. which has the peculiar effect, when it becomes violent, of destroying itself."
1988 bev2
bev2: standard
1000 propertie] Bevington (ed. 1988): “nature.”

bev2: standard
1000 fordoos] Bevington (ed. 1988): “destroys.”
1992 fol2
fol2: standard
1000 violent propertie] Mowat & Werstine (ed. 1992): “characteristic violence”

fol2: standard
1000 fordoos] Mowat & Werstine (ed. 1992): “destroys”
2006 ard3q2
ard3q2
1000 Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “’whose capacity for violence causes self-destruction’”
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