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Notes for lines 2023-2950 ed. Frank N. Clary

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

2356 {A} <He> tooke my father grosly full of bread,	3.3.80

1785 Mason

Mason

2356 bread] Mason (1785, p. 390): “I cannot reconcile myself to this last expression, which is weak, and somewhat ludicrous. Perhaps we should read, ‘full of blood.’”

1790 mal

mal: Ezekiel analogue

2356 full of bread] Malone (ed. 1790): “The uncommon expression, full of bread, our poet borrowed from the sacred writings: ‘Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.’ Ezekiel, 16.49. Maone.”

1793 v1793

v1793= mal

1803 v1803

v1803=v1793

1813 v1813

v1813=v1803

1819 cald1

cald1 = mal + magenta underlined

2356 full of bread] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “Unpurged, surfeit-crammed. Mr. Malone says, the uncommon expression, full of bread, our poet borrowed from the sacred writings: ‘Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.’ Ezekiel, xvi. 49.”

1821 v1821

v1821=v1813

1832 cald2

cald2=cald1

1841 knt1 (nd)

knt1 ≈ mal without attribution

2356 full of bread] Knight (ed. [1839] nd): “Shakspere found this remarkable expression in the Bible:—‘Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters.’ (Ezekiel, xvi. 49).”

1854 del2

del2 ≈ mal (Ezekiel analogue) without attribution

2356 full of bread] Delius (ed. 1854): “full of bread ist ein biblischer Ausdruck; so im E z e c h i e l 16, 49. von Sodom: pride, fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters.” [full of bread is a biblical expression: thus, in Ezekiel 16: 49 about Sodom: pride, fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters.]

1856b sing

sing2 ≈ knt1 (Ezekiel analogue only) without attribution

2356 full of bread] Singer (ed. 1866): “‘Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and her daughters.”—Ezekiel xv1, 49.”

1857 fieb

fieb=mal for full of bread without attribution

1869 tsch

tsch ≈ del (Exekiel analogue)

2356 full of bread] Tschischwitz (ed. 1869): “Ezech. 16, 49 s. Del.” [Ezekiel 16:49. See Del.]

1872 cln1

cln1 ≈ knt1

2356 full of bread] Clark and Wright (ed. 1872): “A scriptural phrase. Compare Ezekiel xvi. 49.”

1877 v1877

v1877 = sing2 (attributed to mal)

2356 bread] Furness (ed. 1877): “Malone: ‘Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness,’ &c.--Ezekiel, xvi, 49.”

1877 neil

neil ≈ cln1 (Ezekiel analogue) without attribution for full of bread

1878 rlf1

rlf1: mal (Ezekiel analogue)

2356 grosly] Rolfe (ed. 1878): “The word refers to father, not to sin. Full of bread, as Malone notes, is suggested by Ezekiel, xvi. 49: ‘Pride, fulness of bread,’ etc.”

1885 mull

mull

2356 full of bread] Mull (ed. 1885): “when indulging his bodily appetites.”

1890 irv2

irv2 ≈ cln1 (Ezekiel analogue) + magenta underlined

2356 full of bread] Symons (in Irving & Marshall, ed. 1890): “See Ezekiel, xvi. 49: ‘Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.’ Compare TNK [1.1.158-9 (223-4)]: ‘and his army full Of bread, and sloth.’”

1899 ard1

ard1 ≈ mal (Ezekiel analogue)

2356 full of bread] Dowden (ed. 1899): “Malone refers to Ezekiel xvi. 49: ‘pride, fulness of bread.’”

1903 rlf3

rlf3 = rlf1

1931 crg1

crg1≈ ard1 without attribution

2356 full of bread] Craig (ed. 1931): “allusion to Ezekiel, 16.49.”

1934 cam3

cam3

2356 grosly full of bread] Wilson (ed. 1934): grossly, full of bread] “(F1) Q2 omits comma. Cf. note 1.5.11 [16].”

1939 kit2

kit2: xref.

2356 grosly] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “in a gross condition; not purified by repentance, confession, and absolution. Cf. [761-5].”

kit2: mal (Ezekiel analogue)

2356 full of bread] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “in the full flush of worldly pleasures (as opposed to prayer and fasting). Malone aptly quotes Ezekiel, xvi, 49: ‘Pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness.”

1947 yal2

yal2

2356 full of bread] Cross & Brooke (ed. 1947): “without opportunity to fast.”

1957 pel1

pel1

2356 grosly] Farnham (ed. 1957): “grossly in a state of gross unpreparedness.”

pel1

2356 bread] Farnham (ed. 1957): “bread i.e. worldly sense of gratification.”

1958 fol1

fol1

2356 grosly full of bread] Wright & LaMar (ed. 1958): “in a gross condition, unfit for divine judgment because savoring of earthly pleasures and unconfessed.”

1974 evns1

evns1 ≈ kit minus Ezek analogue and xref.

2356 grosly] Evans (ed. 1974): “in a gross state, not spiritually prepared.”

1980 pen2

pen2

2356 tooke] Spencer (ed. 1980): “(took at a disadvantage and killed).”

pen2 ≈ yale2

2356 grosly full of bread] Spencer (ed. 1980): “(in a condition of gross unpreparedness, without having had an opportunity of a penitential fast).”

1982 ard2

ard2 ≈ kit2 (incl. Ezek analogue)

2356 grosly, full of bread] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “in the full indulgence of sensual appetites, not purified (as by fasting), hence unprepared for death. Cf. Ezekiel xvi.49, ‘the iniquity of. . . Sodom, pride, fullness of bread. . .’”

1984 chal

chal

2356 grosly] Wilkes (ed. 1984): “grossly a) unceremoniously b) in a gross state – not purified spiritually.”

chal ≈ crg1

2356 full of bread] Wilkes (ed. 1984): “full of bread cf. Ezekiel 16:49 ‘Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, Pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her’ (Geneva).”

1985 cam4

cam4

2356 grosly] Edwards (ed. 1985): “i.e. without consideration or decency.”

1987 oxf4

oxf4: xref.

2356 full of bread] Hibbard (ed. 1987): “i.e. not in the state of spiritual preparedness induced by fasting. Hamlet is recalling the Ghost’s statement that he is ‘for the day confined to fast in fires’ [1.5.11 (696)]; and the rest of his speech is shot through and through with recollections of the Ghost’s story. It is these recollections that determine the nature of the revenge he plans.”

1988 bev2

bev2 ≈ evns1

2356 grosly] Bevington (ed. 1988): “i.e., not spiritually prepared.”

bev2 ≈ ard2

2356 full of bread] Bevington (ed. 1988): “i.e., enjoying his worldly pleasures (See Ezekial 16:49).”

1993 dent

dent: xref.

2357 braod blowne] Andrews (ed. 1993): “In full flower (‘flush’, filled, with vigour). Compare 3.1.163 [1815].”

1997 Charnes

Charnes: 757-58 xref

2356 Charnes (1997, p. 5): “For when the Ghost reveals the lurid details of his murder, he also makes ’excessively present’ to his son’s imagination images of his own lascivious body, taken in postprandial concupiscence, ’grossly, full of bread,’ and ’barked about. . . with vile and loathsome crust’ (3.3.80; 1.5.71-72).”

1997 evns2

evns2 = evns1

2006 ard3q2

ard3q2

2356 ’A] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “he.”

ard3q2 ≈ chal

2356 grossly] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “Although this relates grammatically to took (’he killed my father without any decency’) it could also refer to the victim (’he killed my father in a state of gross sinfulness’).”

ard3q2: Ezekiel

2356 full of bread] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “i.e. in a state of sensual satiety, not repentant or fasting. ’Fulnes of bread’ is listed as a state of sin in Ezekiel, 16.49.”