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Notes for lines 0-1017 ed. Bernice W. Kliman

For explanation of sigla, such as jen, see the editions bib.

116 For foode and diet to some enterprise	1.1.99

1729 Theobald

Theobald

116 Theobald (to Warburton, 14 March 1730, fol. 57r; Nichols, Illus 2:558): “But is not Food and Diet a mere Tautology? I have made a conjecture to avoid This, wch. I [g]ladly submit to yr. Judgment. —‘Shark’d up a List of landless Resolutes, For Food; & dieted to some Enterprize That hath a Stomch in’t.’ i.e. train’d up, or, in the simple Signification, fed, maintain’d.”

1747- m tby4

mtby4

116 foode and diet] Thirlby (1747-) suggests (weakly) either “soldiers” or “rayment” to substitute for one or another of the original words.

1819 cald1

cald1

116-17 foode and diet . . . stomache] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “The redundancy of ‘food and diet’ may have been employed for the purpose of fixing in the mind the continuation of the metaphor in the use of the word stomach, here put in an equivocal sense, importing both courage and appetite. We have a similar play in [TGV 1.2.? (000)] where, on Julia’s asking her waiting woman, with whom she had been peevish, whether it was near dinner time, she replies: ‘I would it were That you might kill your stomach on your meat And not upon your maid.’”

1832 cald2

cald2 = cald1

116-17 foode and diet . . . stomache]

1865 hal

hal = cald2

116-17 foode and diet . . . stomache]

1870 rug1

rug1

116 foode and diet] Moberly (ed. 1870): “For no pay but their keep. Being landless they have nothing to lose, and the war would at the worst feed them. Shakspere seems to be thinking of the Utopia, ‘Who be bolder stomaked to bring all in a hurlieburlie than they that have nothing to lose.’”

1872 cln1

cln1: Theobald

116 foode and diet] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “Theobald, offended probably by the pleonasm ‘food and diet,’ conjectured “For foode, and dieted to an enterprise;’ but he did not insert this reading into his text.”

1877 v1877

v1877: Theobald, Moberly minus analogue to Utopia

116 foode and diet]

1878 rlf1

rlf1 = Moberly 1st and 2nd sentence

116 For foode and diet]

1899 ard1

ard1 ≈ rug2 without attribution + in magenta underlined

116-17 foode and diet . . . stomache] Dowden (ed. 1899): “Paid only by what they eat. Qq 1, 2 have no comma after ‘diet’; may the meaning be that the resolutes are to be the food and diet of a devouring enterprise, which has a stomach in it (‘food for powder’) with a play on ‘stomach’ in its second sense of stubborn resolution?”

1903 rlf3

rlf3 = Moberly 1st sentence without attribution

116 For foode and diet]

1912 dtn3

dtn3 ≈ Moberly without attribution

116 For foode and diet] Deighton (ed. 1912): “merely for their keep, caring nothing about being paid.”

1913 tut2

tut2 ≈ cald without attribution

116-17 For. . . in’t] Goggin (ed. 1913) says that stomach meaning courage “is common in Shakespeare, but the words food and diet suggest that some play on the other meaning of the word may be intended.”

1917 yal1

yal1 1st sentence = Moberly; 2nd sentence ≈ ard1 without attribution

116 Crawford (ed. 1917): “For no pay but their keep. (Moberly.) Perhaps, however, the meaning is ‘as food and diet to keep the enterprise going.’”

1929 trav

trav = ard1 +

116 foode and diet] Travers (ed. 1929) quotes Dowden and adds: “If so, one may compare “shark’d up” in [115].”

1931 crg1

crg1: standard (rug without attribution)

116 foode and diet] Craig (ed. 1931): “no pay but their keep.”

1939 kit2

kit2

116 some] Kittredge (ed. 1939) some “suggests that he enlisted his desperadoes without telling them just what the enterprise was.”

1957 fol1

fol1 ≈ ard1

116 foode and diet] Wright & LaMar (ed. 1957, rpt. 1963): “as cannon fodder.”

1982 ard2

ard2 ≈ ard1 without attribution

116-17 Jenkins (ed. 1982): “[. . . ] There is a play on the literal sense, the stomach of the enterprise being supplied with ‘food’ in the shape of the ‘lawless resolutes.’

1985 cam4

cam4

116-17 For . . . in’t] Edwards (ed. 1985), in keeping with his choice of landless interprets these lines accordingly. The landless resolutes work for food only “because they are attracted to an adventureous enterprise [which] has ‘stomach’ in two senses,” providing them with nourishment and adventure.

1987 oxf4

oxf4 ≈ ard2

116-17 Hibbard (ed. 1987) thinks that Sh. combined the two ideas noted separately by others: the men are the food for the enterprise, and they are paid with food.