Notes for lines 2023-2950 ed. Frank N. Clary
| 2571 To try conclusions in the basket creepe, | 3.4.195 |
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1755 Johnson Dict.
Johnson Dict.
2571 conclusions ] Johnson (1755): 1. “determination; final decision;”
2. “the collection from propositions premised; the consequence.”
1771 han3
han3: Johnson
2571 conclusions] Hanmer (ed. 1771, glossary): “conclusion (Vol. 5. 373.) determination. (Vol. 6. 129.) conclusion means experiment. J.”
1778 v1778
v1778
2571 conclusions] Steevens (ed. 1778): “i.e. experiments. So, in Ant. [1.1.56 (64)]: ‘She has pursu’d conclusions infinite Of easy ways to die.’ Steevens.”
1784 ays1
ays1 = v1778 minus Ant. //
1791- rann
rann = aysi
2571 conclusions] Rann (ed. 1791-): “experiments.”
1819 cald1
cald1: MV //
2571 try conclusions] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “Try experiments. ‘He had too much followed the allurements and entisements of Sathan, and fondly practised his conclusions by conjuring, witchcraft, enchantment, sorcerie, and such like.’ Newes from Scotland, of Doctor. Fian, register to the devill, &c. 4to. 1591, signat. C2, b. See MV Launce. [2.2.37 (601)].”
1826 sing1
sing1 ≈ v1773, v1778 without attribution
2571 To try conclusions] Singer (ed. 1826): “To try conclusions is to put to proof, or to try experiments. See MV 2.2 [601]. Sir John Suckling possibly alludes to the same story in one of his letters.—‘It is the story after all of the jackanapes and the partridges; thou starest after a beauty till it be lost to thee, and then let’st out another, and starest after that till it is gone too.’”
1832 cald2
cald2 = cald1 +
2571 To try conclusions]
Caldecott (ed. 1832): “&
Cym.
[1.5.18 (510)]. Queen.”
1854 del2
del2
2571-2 Delius (ed. 1854): “Die Fabel, auf die Hamlet anspielt, muss des Inhalts sein, dass ein Affe den auf dem Dache des Hauses stehenden Korb öffnet, die darin befindlichen Vögel herausfliegen lässt, selbst hinein kriecht, um Untersuchungen anzustellen (to try conclusions = Experimente machen), und mit dem Korbe vom Dache stürzt, wobei er den Hals bricht.” [The fable to which Hamlet refers must be the one that tells of a monkey who opens a basket on the roof of a house, lets the birds who were inside fly out, creeps in to carry out investigations (to try conclusions meaning to make experiments) and falls with the basket from the roof,) breaking his neck.]
1856 hud1 (1851-6)
hud1 ≈ sing1 minus MV //; v1778 (Ant. //)
2571 To try conclusions] Hudson (ed. 1851-6): “To try conclusions is to put to proof, or try experiments. See Ant, [5.2.355 (3625)], note 33. Sir John Suckling possibly alludes to the same story in one of his letters: ‘It is the story after all of the jackanapes and the partridges; thou starest after a beauty till it be lost to thee, and then let’st out another, and starest after that till it is gone too.’”
1857 fieb
fieb
2571 conclusions] Fiebig (ed. 1857): “Conclusions, experiments, something from which a conclusion my be drawn, now disused of course in this meaning. To try conclusions, i.e. the ape, curious to make an experiment.”
1860 stau
stau = rann
2571 conclusions] Staunton (ed. 1860): “Experiments.”
1865 hal
hal: v1778
2571 To try conclusions] Steevens (apud Halliwell in ed. 1865): “To try conclusions is to try experiments. So, in Heywood’s Golden Age, 1611”—’since favour Cannot attain thy love, I’ll try conclusions.’ Again, in the Lancashire Witches, 1634:—’Nay then I’ll try conclusions: Mare, mare, see thou be, And where I point thee, carry me.—Steevens.”
hal: mal
2571 To try conclusions] Malone (apud Halliwell in ed. 1865): “So the quarto R. Quarto H. and folio read—confusions.—Malone.”
Neither ref. has yet been traced to editors cited, although def. for conclusions (experiments) is traceable to v1778.
1866 ktlyn
ktlyn ≈ stau
2571 try conclusions] Keightley (ed. 1866, glossary): “try experiments.”
1872 HUD2
hud2 ≈ hud1
2571 try conclusions] Hudson (ed. 1872): “To try conclusions is the old phrase for trying experiments, or putting a thing to the proof.—The passage alludes, apparently, to some fable or story now quite forgotten. Sir John Suckling, in one of his letters, refers to ‘the story of the jackanapes and the partridges.’”
Commentary has been compressed and modified.
1872 cln1
cln1: cald1 (MV //), hud1 (Ant. //) + magenta underlined
2571 To try conclusions] Clark and Wright (ed. 1872): “Clark and Wright (ed. 1872): “to make experiments so as to see what the result will be. Compare Luc., 1160: ‘That mother tries a merciless conclusion Who, having two sweet babes, when death takes one, Will slay the other and be nurse to none.’ And Ant. [5.2.355 (3625)]: ‘She hath pursued conclusions infinite Of easy ways to die.’ And MV [2.2.37 (601)]. Launcelot Gobbo, when he says ‘I will try confusions with him,’ means ‘I will try conclusions.’”
1877 v1877
v1877 ≈ v1778 minus Ant. //
2571 conclusions] (ed. 1877): “Steevens: Experiments.”
1878 rlf1
rlf1 ≈ cln1 + magenta underlined
2571 conclusions] Rolfe (ed. 1878): “Experiments. Cf. Luc. 1160: “That mother tries a merciless conclusion/Who, having two sweet babes, when death takes one,/Will slay the other and be nurse to none.” See also Ant. [5.2.355 (3625)], Cym. [1.5.18 (510)], etc.”
1885 macd
macd ≈ v778
2571 conclusions] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “Experiments, Steevens says: is it not rather results?”
1889 Barnett
Barnett = stau
1891 dtn
dtn ≈ irv2
2571 To try conclusions] Deighton (ed. 1891): “to make experiment.”
1899 ard1
ard1 ≈ cln1 minus Ant., MV //s
2571 try conclusions] Dowden (ed. 1899): “try experiments, as in Luc, 1160.”
1905 rltr
rltr
2571 conclusions] Chambers (ed. 1905): “results.”
1906 nlsn
nlsn = Barnett
2571 conclusions] Neilson (ed. 1906, glossary): “conclusion] experiment.”
1934 cam3
cam3: MV //
2571 try conclusions] Wilson (ed. 1934): “For ‘try conclusions’ v. G. and MV. [2.2.37 (601)].”
F1 has “try confusions” in MV //.
1934 cam3 Glossary
cam3
2571 try conclusions] Wilson (ed. 1934, Glossary): “make experiment, see what will happen.”
1937 pen1
pen1
2571 try conclusions] Harrison (ed. 1937): “repeat the experiment.”
1939 kit2
kit2 ≈ cam3 Glossary
2571 To try conclusions] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “to try an experiment.”
1942 n&h
n&h: standard
2571 try conclusions] Neilson & Hill (ed. 1942): “experiment.”
1947 cln2
cln2
2571 To try conclusions] Rylands (ed. 1947): “to see what will happen.”
1974 evns1
evns1
2571 conclusion] Evans (ed. 1974): “experiments (to see whether he too can fly if he enters the cage and then leaps out).”
1984 chal
chal ≈ pen2
2571 To try conclusions] Wilkes (ed. 1984): “to see what would happen.”
1987 oxf4
oxf4: OED
2571 try conclusions] Hibbard (ed. 1987): “see what will happen. To try conclusions is ‘to experiment’ (OED conclusion 8b).”
1988 bev2
bev2: standard
2571 conclusions] Bevington (ed. 1988): “experiments (in which the ape apparently enters a cage from which the birds have been released and then tries to fly out of the cage as they have done, falling to his death).”
1998 OED
OED
2571 conclusions] OED (Sept. 15, 1998): “8b. to try conclusions (also, formerly to prove c.s, to try (a) conclusion): to try experiments, to experiment; transf. to engage in a trial of skill, strength, etc. (Now associated with sense 2, as if = `to try the issue, see what will come of it’.)
“1601 CHESTER Love’s Mart. cxvi, If their eyes trie not conclusion They will not trust a strangers true reporting. 1602 SHAKS. Ham. III. iv. 195. 1602 ROWLANDS Greene’s Ghost 35 Either he would haue restitution for his purse..or they would trie a conclusion at Tyborne. 1619 W. SCLATER Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 311 As if..to giue our Saviour the lye, and to proue conclusions with the Almighty. 1669 WORLIDGE Syst. Agric. (1681) 37 His poor and beggerly Farm hath wasted what he hath, and he has no more to try new Conclusions withal. 1719 D’URFEY Pills (1872) III. 314 But try no mad Conclusions. 1857 KINGSLEY Two Y. Ago v, Put his tissues under the microscope and try conclusions on him. 1884 L’pool Daily Post 23 June 5 To day Australian cricketers will try conclusions with a Liverpool team.”
2006 ard3q2
ard3q2
2571 try conclusions] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “experiment.”
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