Notes for lines 2023-2950 ed. Frank N. Clary
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1723- mtby2
2085+2 And Anchors] Thirlby (1723-): “an anchoress vel pro eo anchors.”
BWK transcription, who adds: “This means, I think, either would do but with some preference for anchors.”
1733- mtby3
mtby3
2085+2 Anchors] Thirlby (1733-): “More agst Tyndal Preface p. 20: Had in the whyle resort unto an ancresse. I [?] suppose a she hermit or anchoret.”
Transcribed by BWK.
1747 warb
warb
2085+2 Warburton (ed. 1747): “i.e. May I be as closely and straitly confined as the most mortified recluse.”
1755 Johnson Dict.
Johnson Dict.
2085+2 anchors ] Johnson (1755): 1. “ a heavy iron, composed of a long shank, having a ring at one end to which the cable is fastened and at the other, branching out into two arms or hooks, tending upwards, with barbs or edges on each side. Its use is to hold the ship, by being fixed to the ground.
”
2. “ it is used, by a metaphor, for any thing which confers stability or security.”
3. “ Shakespeare seems to have used this word for an anchoret, or an abstemious recluse person.”
1765 john1/john2
john1
2085+2 Johnson (ed. 1765): “May my whole liberty and enjoyment be to live on hermit’s fare in a prison. Anchor is for anchorete.”
1773 jen
jen
2085+2 And Anchors] Jennens (ed. 1773): “i.e. And the order of anchorites.”
1774 capn
capn: john1 minus paraphrase
2085+2 Anchors] Capell (1774, 1:1: glossary, Anchor): “(H. 75, 15) an Anchorite.”
1778 v1778
v1778 = v1773 +
2085+2 Steevens (ed. 1778): “This abbreviation of the word anchoret is very ancient. I find it in the Romance of Robert the Devil, printed by Wynkyn de Worde: ‘We have robbed and killed nonnes, holy aunkers, preestes, clerkes, &c.’ Again, ‘the foxe will be an aunker for he begynneth to preche.’ Again, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman: ‘As ankers and hermits that hold hem in her felles.’ This and the foregoing line are not in the folio. I believe we should read—anchor’s chair. So, in the second Satire of Hall’s fourth book edit. 1602, p. 18: ‘Sit seven yeares pining in an anchore’s cheyre To win some parched shreds of minivere.’ STEEVENS. “
1784 ays1
ays1 ≈ v1778 minus Robert the Devil, Pierce Plowman, Hall analolgues
2085+2 Anchors] Ayscouth (ed. 1784): “Anchor is for anchoret. This abbreviation of the word is very ancient.”
1791- rann
rann: john1 minus def, without attribution
2085+2 And Anchors] Rann (ed. 1791): “An anchor’s] An anchoret’s.—May my whole liberty and enjoyment be to live on an hermit’s fare in prison.”
1819 cald1
cald1 ≈ v1813 minus conj. reading (chair for cheere)
2085+2 And Anchors . . . scope] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “May an anchoret or hermit’s fare or lot be the point or goal of my utmost expectations! We have followed the modern editors; but for an the quartos read and. Mr. Steevens observes, this abbreviation of the word anchoret is very ancient. I find it in the Romance of Robert the Devil, printed by Wynken de Worde: ‘We haue robbed and killed n onnes, holy aunkers, preestes, clerkes,’ &c. Again: ‘the foxe will be an aunker, for he begynneth to preche.’ And it occurs in Hall’s Satires, 1602, p. 18.”
Compressed version of v1813 note.
1822 Nares
Nares: Hall; contra v1778
2085+2 Anchors cheere] Nares (1822, glossary: anchor): “An abbreviation of Anchoret, a hermit [Hamlet lines cited]. The phrase is used also by bishop Hall. ‘Sit seven yeares pining in an anchor’s cheyre.’ Sat. B. iv. S. 2. From the expression sit in, it seemes that an anchor’s chair, or seat, is meant, in the latter passage. But that would make nonsense in the former, and therefore was injudiciously proposed by Mr. Steevens as the probable reading. In the chair of an hermit there is nothing characteristic, but in his cheer, or fare there is.”
1826 sing1
sing1 ≈ v1821 without attribution
2085+2 Anchors] Singer (ed. 1826): “anchor’s]] “Anchor’s for anchoret’s. Thus in Hall’s second Satire, b. iv: ‘Sit seven yeares pining in an anchore’s cheyre To win some parched shreds of minivere.’”
1832 cald2
cald2 ≈ cald1
Shift from “I” to editorial “We” as subject of sentence on Wynken de Worde parallel.
1839 knt1 (nd)
knt1: standard
2085+2 Anchors cheere] Knight (ed. [1839] nd): “anchoret’s fare. This abbreviation of anchoret is very ancient.”
1843 col1
col1: knt1
2085+2 And Anchors cheere] Collier (ed. 1843): “ ‘An anchor’s cheer’ is an Anchoret’s sustenance.”
1847 verp
verp ≈ knt1 without attribution
2085+2 And Anchors cheere]
Verplanck (ed. 1847): “The cheer or fare of an anchorite; a customary abbreviation in old English writers.”
1854 del2
del2
2085+2 Anchors cheere . . . scope] Delius (ed. 1854): “Dieses Reimpaar fehlt in der Fol. Genau construirt kann sich scope nicht wohl auf anchor’s cheer, sondern nur auf prison beziehen: ein Gefängniss mit dem spärlichen Kost eines Eremiten.” [This couplet is missing in the Folio. In a precise reading, scope cannot relate to anchor’s cheer, but only to prison—a prison with the limited food of a hermit.]
1856 hud1 (1851-6)
hud1 = sing1 without attribution
Hudson has Hall parallel, as in SING1, but without attribution to Singer, who had not attributed parallel to Steevens (ed. 1778).
1856b sing2
sing2 = sing1 +
2085+2 Anchors] Singer (ed. 1856): “So little was this archaism understood in 1762, that in a letter from the Hon. C. Yorke to Dr. Birch, about the edition of Lord Bacon’s Letters, he says, ‘I have marked in p. 6 a word blundered in printing: Anchor for Anchoret or Anchorite, (Hermit Greek here)”
1857 fieb
fieb: john1; contra v1778
2085+2 Anchors] Fiebig (ed. 1857): “May my whole liberty and enjoyment be to live on hermit’s fare in a prison. J. —Anchor is a very ancient abbreviation of the word anchoret, or anchorite, a recluse, a hermit. Steevens has proposed to read—anchor’s chair i.e. pulpit, instead of cheer i.e. provisions; but why a correction, where the genuine reading offers a good sense.”
1860 stau
stau ≈ col1
2085+2 Anchors cheere] Staunton (ed. 1860): “The fare of an anchorite.”
1861 wh1
wh1 ≈ col1
2085+2 Anchors] White (ed. 1861): “i.e., an anchorite’s, a hermit’s.”
1864 glo
glo ≈ stau
2085+2 Anchors] Clark and Wright (ed. 1864a [1865] 9: glossary, Anchor): “sb. an anchorite, hermit.”
1869 Romdahl
Romdahl ≈ v1778 (def., P. Ploughman analogue)
2085+2 Anchors] Romdahl (1869, p. 34): “for anchoret’s an anciently occurring abbreviation. As ankers and hermits that hold them in her felles. ‘The Vis. of P. Ploughman.”
1870 rug1
rug1
2085+2 And anchors cheere] Moberly (ed. 1870): “May the fare of an anchoret be the utmost range of my liberty.”
1872 hud2
hud2=hud1, minus Hall analogue
2085+2 Anchors] Hudson (ed. 1872): “Anchor for anchoret, an old word for hermit.”
1872 cln1
cln1 ≈ stau + magenta underlined
2085+2 And Anchors cheere] Clark and Wright (ed. 1872): “an anchorite’s, or hermit’s fare.The A.S. is ancer, or ancor, abbreviated from the Greek [GREEK HERE], one who is withdrawn from the world. It is applied both to men and women. Compare The Vision of Piers the Ploughman, l. 55: ‘As ancres and heremites, That holden hem in hire selles.’ The Ancren Riwle, or the rules of nuns, is one of the most valuable publications of the Camden Society.”
cln ≈ cald1
2085+2 my scope] Clark and Wright (ed. 1872): “my utmost aim.”
1877 col4
col4 ≈ col3 + magenta underlined
2085+2 Anchors cheere] Collier (ed. 1877): “‘An anchor’s cheer’ is, of course, an anchoret’s solitude and sustenance.”
1877 v1877
v1877 ≈ john, v1778, del1, cln1
2085+2 Anchors]
Furness (ed. 1877): “
Johnson: May my whole liberty and enjoyment be to live on hermit’s fare in prison. ‘Anchor’ is for
anchorite.
Steevens: This abbreviation is very ancient. In the Romance of
Robert the Devil, printed by Wynkyn de Worde: ‘We haue robbed and killed nonnes, holy aunkers, preestes,’ &c. Again: ‘the foxe will be an aunker,’ &c. Also, in
The Vision of Piers Ploughman, l. 55: ‘As ancres and heremites That holden hem in hire selles.’ I believe we should read,—‘anchor’s
chair.’ Compare Hall, Sat. ii, bk. IV, p.
18, ed.
i602:—‘Sit seven yeres pining in an anchore’s cheyre.’
Delius: Logically, ‘scope’ cannot refer to ‘anchor’s cheer,’ but to ‘prison.’
Clarendon: ‘Anchor’ is applied both to men and women.”
1881 hud3
hud3=hud2; = hud1
1885 macd
macd: standard
2085+2 And Anchors] Mac Donald (ed. 1885): “an ancoret’s.”
1889 Barnett
Barnett ≈ cln1 for Ancren Riwle ref.
2085+2 Anchors] Barnett (1889, p. 48): “anchorite’s. The better spelling is anchoret. The Ancren Riwle, or Rule of female anchorets is the title of a work written in the thirteenth century. The word ancer-lif ‘hermit life,’ occurs in the translation of Bede’s Eccl. Hist. Low. Lat. anachoreta, a recluse. Gr. [GREEK Here], one who has retired from the world. Gr. [GREEK Here], back, and [GREEK HERE], to withdraw. A ship’s anchor comes from Lat. ancora, closely related to uncus, hooked,”
1890 irv2
irv2 ≈ cln1 (including syn., etym. and Piers analogue) + magenta underlined
2085+2 Anchors] Symons (in Irving & Marshall, ed. 1890): “Anchor is of course anchorite, or hermit, from Anglo-Saxon ancor, an abbreviation of Greek [Greek here], one who is withdrawn. Compare The Vision of Piers Ploughman, l. 55: ‘And ancres and heremites that holden hem in hire selles’; and the Romance of Robert the Devil, printed by Wynkyn de Worde: ‘We have robbed and killed nonnes, holy aunkers, preestes,’ &c.”
1891 dtn
dtn ≈ Barnett (Greek etym.) without attribution
2085+2 And Anchors . . . scope] Deighton (ed. 1891): “may a hermits fare be the utmost I can hope to enjoy! anchor, a shortened form of anchoret, or anchorite, ultimately from Gk. (GREEK HERE], a recluse, one who has retired from the world, from Gk. (GREEK HERE], back, and (GREEK HERE], to retire.”
1899 ard1
ard1: cln1 + contra Nares
2085+2 Anchors cheere] Dowden (ed. 1899): “anchoret’s chair. So Bishop Hall, Satires, IV. ii. 103: ‘Sit seaven yeares pining in an achores cheyre.’ Cheer is explained—perhaps rightly—by Clar. Press and others ‘fare,’ but ‘scope’ supports the meaning illustrated by Hall.”
Gloss on page is echoed in Notes: “Anchorite’s, hermit’s.”
1904 ver
ver: john, v1778; R2 //; Comus analogue
2085+2 And Anchors cheere] Verity (ed. 1904): “”may my whole liberty and enjoyment be to live on hermit’s fare in prison” – Johnson. (F.)
“The picture is that of R2. [3.3.147-50 (1735-8)], Comus, 390, 391. anchor; the older form of anchorite; see G.
“Chair has been suggested instead of cheer (‘fare’), because the line, “Sit seven yeares pining in an anchor’s cheyre,” occurs in Bishop Hall’s Satires, 4.2. The same change has been proposed in the famous difficulty in Mac. [5.3.21 (2238)] (“Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now”) But cheer is the commonly adopted reading here.”
1905 rltr
rltr: standard
2085+2 Anchors] Chambers (ed. 1905): “anchorite.”
1907 bul
bul: theo1 (emend.); v1778 (Hall analogue); Mac. //
2085+2 And Anchors cheere] Bullen (ed. 1907): “’An anchor’s cheer.’—I take ‘cheer’ to mean ‘fare’ here, but in Hall’s Satires, IV. ii, 103, Steevens found ‘anchores cheyre’ (anchorite’s chair). See note on Mac. [3.3.147-50 (1735-8)]. ‘An’ is Theobald’s correction of ‘And.’”
1931 crg1
crg1≈ rltr
2085+2 And Anchors] Craig (ed. 1931): “an ancorite’s.”
crg1 ≈ v1778 for conj. without attribution
2085+2 heere] Craig (ed. 1931): “fare; sometimes printed as chair.”
1934b rid
rid=rltr
2085+2 Anchors] Ridley (ed. 1934): “anchorite.”
1935 ev2
ev2
2085+2 scope] Boas (ed. 1935): “fate.”
1939 kit2
kit2: contra v1778, contra Cam3; Rom., Tim. //s
2085+2 And Anchors cheere] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “an anchorite’s (hermit’s) fare. Steevens would read ‘chair,’ in suport of which he quotes Hall, Satires, iv, 2 (ed. Singer, p. 86); ‘Sit seven yeres pining iin an Anchore’s chair.’ Wilson reads cheere (with the Second Quarto) and interprets it as ‘chair.’ But cf. ‘wedding cheer’ (Rom. [4.5.87 (2667)]) ‘royal cheer’ (Tim. [3.6.49 (1433)]).”
1942 n&h
n&h: standard
2085+2 Anchors cheere] Neilson & Hill (ed. 1942): “hermit’s fare.”
1947 cln2
cln2
2085+2 Anchors cheere] Rylands (ed. 1947): “an anchorite’s or hermit’s existence.”
1958 mun
mun: Kökeritz
2085+2 cheere] Munro (ed. 1958): “Probably chair (Kökeritz, 179).”
Suggestion is traceable to Steevens (ed. 1778).
1974 evns1
evns1 = n&h
2085+2 anchor’s cheer] Evans (ed. 1974): “hermit’s fare.”
evns1
2085+2 my scope] Evans (ed. 1974): “the extent of my comforts.”
1980 pen2
pen2
2085+2 And Anchors cheere] Spencer (ed. 1980): “the food of an anchorite (hermit). The Q2 reading ‘cheere’ is sometimes interpreted as ‘chair’. But both this spelling and the meaning are difficult.”
pen2
2085+2 my scope] Spencer (ed. 1980): “what I have in prospect.”
1987 oxf4
oxf4: theo (for An); v1778 (for Hall analogue); OED
2085+1-2085+2 Hibbard (ed. 1987, Appendix): “‘The Mousetrap’ loses nothing by the excision of this couplet from F. The sense of the second line is far from clear, and has been disputed. As printed here, with Theobald’s emendation of An for And of Q2, it means ‘let an anchorite’s fare in prison be the limit of my desires’; but, as Steevens pointed out, Joseph Hall, in his Virgidemiae (1599), writes of fools who ‘Sit seauen yeares pining in an Anchores cheyre’ (4.2.103). Unfortunately, OED offers no evidence that chair was ever spelled cheere (Q2).”
1982 ard2
ard2: standard (incl. v1778 for Hall analogue, but without attribution)
1998 OED
OED
2085+2 Anchors] OED (Sept. 7, 1998) : “anchor, sb.2 Obs. Forms: 1 ancra, 3-6 ancre, 4-5 ankre, 4-7 anker, 5 ankyr, aunker, 5-6 anchor(e. Pl. -s; 1 ancran, 3 -en, 3-6 -es, 5-6 anker(e)s, anchor(e)s. [OE. ancra, oncra, for ancora, *ancoro, shortened f. L. *anchoreta, anachoreta: see ANCHORITE. App. made áncora by `popular etymology’ after án `one, alone’; the similarly transformed OS. ênkoro, OHG. einchoran (cf. OHG. einsidilo, mod.G. einsiedel, -ler), were according to Sievers, prob. adaptations of the OE. ME. again had a short before two cons. OE. had prob. ancra masc., ancre fem., though the latter is not recorded; in ME. ancre was of common gender; the fem. ancress, ankeress, ANCHORESS, appeared in 14th c., and an extended masc. ANKERER in 16th; but Fr. anachorète, modified to anchoret, ANCHORITE, has superseded the earlier forms, anchor appearing last (as current wd.) in Shaks.]1. An ANCHORITE. a 1000 ÆLFRIC Gloss. in Wright Voc. 42 Anachoreta, ancra. c 1230 Ancr. R. 10 Powel the erest ancre, Antonie, & Arsenie. c 1300 St. Brand. 330 The threteoth fram the to the Ylle of Ankres schal wende. 1362 LANGL. P. Pl. A. Prol. 28 Ancres and Hermytes that holdeth hem in heore celles. 1387 TREVISA Higden Rolls Ser. VI. 149 He lyvede anker his lyf. 1432-50 tr. Higden ibid., Lyvede after as an ankre in yle of Farne. 1496 Dives & Paup. (W. de Worde) VI. xiii. 253/1 Whan men take them to be ankeres and recluses. c 1500 Robt. Deuyll in E.E. Pr. Rom. 1858 I. 23 We have robbed and kylled nonnes, holy aunkers, preestes. 1529 MORE Comf. agst. Tribul. III. Wks. 1557, 1247/1 Ancres and ancresses most especiallye. a 1536 TINDALE Exp. Matt. Wks. II. 42 Monks..whether obseruant or ancre. 1553-87 FOXE A. & M. (1596) 113/1 To Crowland, where he led the life of an Anker. 1599 BP. HALL Satires IV. ii. 103 Sit seauen yeares pining in an anchores cheyre. 1604 SHAKS. Haml. III. ii. 229 (2nd Qo.) And anchors cheere [i.e. chair] in prison be my scope. 1872 [See ANCHORAGE2].”
2006 ard3q2
ard3q2 ≈ john1: Theobald, Jenkins, Edwards
2085+2 And anchor’s cheer] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “and the fare or diet of an anchorite, a hermit. (Theobald and others, e.g. Jenkins and Edwards, emend ’And’ to ’An’, but this is not strictly necessary.)”
ard3q2
2085+2 scope] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “portion, limit.”
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