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

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2458 If thou canst mutine in a Matrons bones,	3.4.83

1755 Johnson Dict.

Johnson Dict.

2458 mutine ] Johnson (1755): “ A mutineer; a mover of insurrection. Not in use.”

1774 capn

capn

2458 mutine] Capell (1774 1:1: glossary, mutine): “(to mutiny, play the Mutine. Fre. mutiner.”

1778 v1778

v1778

2458 mutine] Steevens (ed. 1778): “The old copies read mutine. Sh. calls mutineers—mutines, in a subsequent scene. Steevens.”

1785 v1785

v1785 = v1778

1790 mal

mal: Oth. //; Knolles analogue

2458 mutine] Malone (ed. 1790): “So, in Oth. [3.4.36 (2179-86)]: ‘This hand is moist, my lady;—Hot, hot, and moist: this hand of yours requires A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer, Much castigation, exercise devout; For here’s a young and sweating devil here, That commonly rebels.’

“To mutine, for which the modern editors have substituted mutiny, was the ancient term, signifying to rise in mutiny. So, in Knolles’s History of the Turks, 1603: ‘The Janisaries—became wonderfully discontented, and began to mutine in diverse places of the citie.’ Malone.”

1793 v1793

v1793 = mal

1803 v1803

v1803 = v1793

1813 v1813

v1813 = v1803

1819 cald1

cald1: mal (Knolles analogue); xref.

2458 mutine] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “Rebel. Mutineers are, [5.2.6 (3505)] Haml, called mutines: and for the verb, Mr. Malone cites Knolles’s History of the Turks, 1603: ‘The Janisaries—became wonderfully discontented, and began to mutine in diverse places of the citie.’”

1821 v1821

v1821 = v1813

1826 sing1

sing1: v1778 without attribution + magenta underlined

2458 mutine] Singer (ed. 1826): “This is the old form of the verb. Sh. calls mutineers mutines in a subsequent scene; but this is, I believe, peculiar to him: they were called mutiners anciently.”

1832 cald2

cald2 = cald1

1843 col1

col1: KJ //; xref.

2458 mutine] Collier (ed. 1843): “To ‘mutine’ was formerly used for to mutiny, not merely in verse but in prose. In KJ [2.1.378 (692)],’Vol. iv. p. 31, we have seen Sh. employ ‘mutines’ for mutineers: so also [5.2.6 (3505)], of this play.”

1854 del2

del2

2458 mutine] Delius (ed. 1854): “Das veraltete mutine gebraucht Sh. wowohl substantivisch = Meuterer, Empörer, als auch verbal = sich empören.” [Shakespeare uses the archaic form mutine as a noun (meaning mutineer, rebel) and also as a verb (meaning to rebel).]

1856 hud1 (1851-6)

hud1: sing1 without attribution minus “but this . . . anciently.”

1856b sing2

sing2 = sing1

1857 fieb

fieb ≈ del2

2458 mutine] Fiebig (ed. 1857): “To mutine, for which modern editors have substituted mutiny, was the ancient term, signifying to rise in mutiny, to make insurrection, to rebel.”

1858 col3

col3 = col1

1864a glo

glo ≈ capn

2458 mutine] Clark and Wright (ed. 1864a [1865] 9: glossary, Mutine): “v.i. to mutiny.”

1866 ktlyn

ktlyn ≈ glo

2458 mutine] Keightley (ed. 1866, glossary): “to mutiny; or a mutinous fellow.”

1869 tsch

tsch: Mueller

2458 mutine] Tschischwitz (ed. 1869): “fr. mutiner. S. Ed. Mueller s. v. Mutiny. II. 118.” [French mutiner, See Ed. Mueller under Mutiny II. 118.]

1869 Romdahl

Romdahl ≈ col1 minus KJ //

2458 mutine] Romdahl (1869, p. 35): “for the modern mutiny, Fr. mutiner. In [2.1.378 (692)] the obsolete noun mutine is used for mutineer.”

1872 cln1

cln1: Jonson analogue; xref.; Cotgrave; Cor., Tmp. //s

2458 mutine] Clark and Wright (ed. 1872): “mutiny. See Ben Jonson’s Sejanus, 3. 1: ‘Had but they legions there rebell’d or mutined.’ The verb ‘mutine’ does not occur again in Shakespeare. We have however ‘mutine’ as a substantive, [5.2.6 (3505)]. Cotgrave gives ‘Mutiner: to mutine,’ and ‘Mutinateur: a mutiner,’ i.e. mutineer. This form ‘mutiner’ occurs in Cor. [1.1.250 (277)], but in Tmp. [3.2.36 (1386)], the folio has ‘mutineere.’”

1877 v1877

v1877 ≈ v1778, mal, cln1; Walker

2458 mutine] Furness (ed. 1877): “Steevens: Mutineers area called ‘mutines’ in [5.2.6 (3505)]. Malone: To ‘mutine’ anciently signified to rise in mutiny. Thus, in Knolles’s History of the Turks, 1603: ‘The Janisaries—became wonderfully discontented and began to mutine in diverse parts of the citie.’ Clarendon: See Jonson” Sejanus, 3.1: ‘Had but thy legions there revell’d or mutined.’ The verb does not occur again in Sh. Cotgrave gives: ‘Mutiner: to mutine,’ and ‘Mutinateur: a mutiner.’ This form, mutiner, occurs in Cor. [1.1.250 (277)], but in Tmp. [3.2.36 (1386)], F1 has ‘mutineere.’” [See also Walker, Vers, 222.]

1877 col4

col4 ≈ col3

2458 mutine] Collier (ed. 1877): “To mutine was formerly used for to mutiny, not merely in verse but in prose. In KJ. [2.1.378 (692)], p. 28, mutine is used substantively, for mutineer.”

1877 dyce3

dyce3 = dyce2

1878 rlf1

rlf1 ≈ cln1 minus Jonson, Knolles analogues; Cotgrave

2458 mutine] Rolfe (ed. 1878): “The same as mutiny (= rebel), which S. elsewhere uses. We find mutine as a noun (= a rebel) in [5.2.6 (3505)] below, and also in KJ [2.1.378 (692)]. Mutineer occurs once [3.2.36 (1386)], and so does mutiner (Cor. [1.1.250 (277)]).”

1881 hud3

hud3 = hud1 for mutine

1889 Barnett

Barnett: cln1 (Cor., Tmp. //s)

2458 mutine] Barnett (1889, p. 51): “for mutiny. Mutine is the old verb from which was formed mutiner occurring in Cor. [1.1.250 (277)], and mutineer in Tmp. [3.2.36 (1386)]. The root is the Lat. mota, fem. of motors, a commotion. The M. Fr. is émeute.”

1890 irv2

irv2: cln1 (Tem., Cor. //s and Cotgrave); col (KJ //)

2458 mutine] Symons (in Irving & Marshall, ed. 1890): “Mutine, here used as a verb, is found in [5.2.6 (3505)], and in KJ [2.1.378 (692)], as a substantive. Cotgrave has ‘Mutiner: to mutine.’ The Clarendon Press edd. quote Johnson’s Sejanus, 3.1: ‘Had but thy legions there rebell’d or mutin’d.’ Mutineer occurs in Tmp. 3.2. 40 [1386], and mutiner in Cor. [1.1.250 (277)].”

1891 dtn

dtn ≈rlf1 (xref.; KJ //)

2458 mutine] Deighton (ed. 1891): “the older form of ‘mutiny,’ as the substantive in [5.2.6 (3505)], and KJ [2.1.378 (692)].”

1899 ard1

ard1 ≈ cln1 (Cotgrave)

2458 mutine] Dowden (ed. 1899): “mutiny. Cotgrave: ‘Mutiner, to mutine.”

1903 rlf3

rlf3 = rlf1

1931 crg1

crg1 ≈ ktlyn

2458 mutine] Craig (ed. 1931): “mutiny, rebel.”

1939 kit2

kit2

2458 Matrons] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “Emphatic: ‘even in a matron’s frame.’”

1980 pen2

pen2 ≈ crg1

2458 mutine] Spencer (ed. 1980): “make a mutiny.”

1982 ard2

ard2: ≈ dtn minus xref; KJ //

2458 mutine] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “A common variant of mutiny.”

1988 bev2

bev2 ≈ pen2

2458 mutine] Bevington (ed. 1988): “incite mutiny.”

1993 dent

dent

2458 in a Matrons bones] Andrews (ed. 1993): “In the body of a respectable married woman.”

1994 ShQ

2458 Mullaney (1994, p. 151): “Gertrude’s transgression is not merely against her first husband, however. What distracts Hamlet from his almost blunted purpose is Gertrude’s aging sexuality, conceived at times as a contradiction in terms, at times as a violation of her own body akin in its unnaturalness to a rebellion in the body politic: hers is a passion that ’canst mutine in a matron’s bones’ (3.4.83), at once unimaginable and yet impossible not to imagine and visualize in graphic detail.”

1998 OED

OED

2458 mutine] OED (Sept. 14, 1998) : “mutine, v. Obs. Also 6-7 mutin. [a. F. mutiner, f. mutin: see MUTINE sb. Cf. Sp., Pg. amotinar, It. ammutinare.]1. intr. To rise in revolt against authority; to rebel, mutiny.

“1555, 1559 [implied in MUTINING vbl. sb.]. 1560 DAUS tr. Sleidane’s Comm. 41 b, Nowe that a subsidie is to be gathered..for the Turkishe warre, men do grudge and mutine. 1581 SAVILE Tacitus, Hist. I. xviii. (1591) 45 The soldiers mutin and charge the Centurions and Tribunes with treason. 1597 BEARD Theatre God’s Judgem. (1612) 227 Thus they backbited and slaundered Moses, and mutined against him. 1609 B. JONSON Sil. Wom. I. iii, Then [he] railes at his fortunes, stamps, and mutines, why he is not made a counsellor. 1641 MILTON Ch. Govt. II. 65 This..plainly accuses them to be no lawful members of the house, if they thus perpetually mutine against their own body. 1650 HOWELL Giraffi’s Rev. Naples I. 12 There came no fruit at all, because the shopkeepers had mutined and agreed not to buy any fruit. 1692 O. WALKER Grk. & Rom. Hist. 257 When the Legions mutined in the East, and threatned to kill him.

“fig. 1602 SHAKS. Ham. III. iv. 83 Rebellious Hell, If thou canst mutine in a Matrons bones, To flaming youth, let Vertue be as waxe, And melt in her owne fire. 1620 BRATHWAIT Five Senses ii. 10 There is no discord so harsh to a good eare, as the discord of the affections; when they mutine one against another. 1642 BP. MORTON Presentm. Schismatic 23 In these times the hand and foot both mutine cause they are not eyes.”

2006 ard3q2

ard3q2=crg1

2458 canst mutine] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “can mutiny, rebel.”

ard3q2

2458 matron’s bones] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “As at 66-8, Hamlet stresses the Queen’s maturity.”

2022 M. Stapleton (private correspondence)

Stapleton

2458 mutine] Stapleton (private correspondence): “2458 in HW reads that Rowe was the first to emend ‘mutine’ to ‘Mutiny.’ However, Q1676b (your Q7) reads ‘mutiny.’ Q1676a (Q6) is ‘mutine.’”