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Notes for lines 2951-end ed. Hardin A. Aasand

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3152 If he by chaunce escape your venom’d stuck,	4.7.161

1606 Anon.

Anon. Return from Pernassus

3152 stuck] Anon. Returne from Pernassus (ed. 1606, sig. B3r) :<sig. B3r> “Inge: I, here is a fellow Iudicio . that carried the deadly stocke in his pen, whose muse was armed with a gag tooth, and his pen possest with Hercules furyes.” [the poet referred to here is Thomas Nash [Nashdo].</sig. B3r>

[HA: The returne from Pernassus: or the Scourge of Simony. Publiquely acted by the students in Saint John’s Colledge in Cambridge. London, 1606. (STC 19310). This edition has clips inserted that discuss the dating of the play. Most come down to about 1602, Christmas festivities, thanks to references to Kemp’s crossing the alps [Sept. 2 1601} and the presence of comments about the Queen. In pen is written a comment that “useful observations on the subject [are] in Collier’s Memoirs of Actos, pp. 105,106.]

1668 Skinner

Skinner

3152 stuck] Skinner (1668, tuck): “tuck]] à Fr. G.[Franco-Gallica] Estoc , It. Stocco, Ensis longior, Verutum, C.Br. [Cambro-Britannica] Twcca, Cultrum. “

1755 John

John : Skinner

3152 stuck] Johnson (1755, tuck, 1): “n.s. [tweca Welsh; estoc, French; stocco, Italian.] 1. A long narrow sword. [cites Hamlet] ‘There being prim’d, with force he labour’d To free’s sword from retentive scabbard; And after many a painful pluck, From rusty durance he bail’d tuck.‘ Hudibras, p. i.”

mSTV1 Mss. notes by STEEVENS in v1773 (Folger Library)

mSTV1

3152 stuck] Steevens (ms notes, ed. 1773): “tuck]]((not stuck, which seems only an error of [the?] press)) is a long narrow sword.”

1774 capn

capn

3152 venom’d] Capell (1779-83 [1774]:1:1:Glossary): “envenom’d. Fre. enuenimé.”

(c. of e. 53, 2 & H. 110, 27.): We need to check Comedy of Errors for a parallel here on page. 53 of his volume of the play.

capn

3152 stuck] Capell (1779-83 [1774]:1:1:Glossary): “a Word coin’d from -- Stoccata, and signifying the same. u. above. [Stoccado]”

Stuck (H. 110, 27 & t.n. 61, 27): We need to see TN for a parallel. Check concordance

3152 stuck] Capell (1779-83 [1774]:1:1:Glossary): “Tuck]] a long Sword or rapier. Fre. Estoc. ‘standing Tuck,’ such a Sword set upon it’s Point.”

1780 mals

mals

3152 stuck] Anon. (apud Malone, 1780, p. 360): “For stuck read tuck, a common name for a rapier .———E” [Blackstone]”

1783 malsii

malsii: new material (follow-up to Anon (Blackstone) MALS1)

3152 stuck] Malone (1783, p. 59):<p. 59> “Stuck may yet be right. So, in the Return from Parnassus, a comedy, 1606: ‘Ay, here’s a fellow, Judicio, that carried the deadly stucke in his pen.’ Again, in our author’s Twelfth Night : ‘and he gives me the stuck with such a mortal motion——.’ The quarto of 1637, however, has the reading proposed by Sir William Blackstone.”

1785 v1785

v1785=malsi , malsii

3152 stuck]

1787 ann

ann = v1785

3152 stuck]

1790 mal

mal : mals, malsii

3152 stuck] Malone (ed. 1790): “Your venom’d thrust. Stuck was a term of the fencing-school. So, in Twelfth Night : —and he gives me the stuck with such a mortal motion,—.’ Again, in The Return from Parnassus , 1606: ‘Here is a fellow, Judicio, that carried the deadly stocke in his pen.’—See Florio’s Italian Dictionary, 1598: ‘ Stoccata , a foyne, a thrust, a stoccado given in fence. MALONE”

-1790 mWesley

mWesley

3152 stuck] Wesley (typescript of ms. notes in ed. 1785): “‘Stuck’ is less likely to be right than ‘tuck.’”

1791- rann

rann

3152 stuck] Rann (ed. 1791): “—rapier—stuck , — thrust .”

1793 v1793

v1793 : v1785 ; mal +

3152 stuck] Steevens (ed. 1793): “See Vol. IV. p. 129, n. 6 STEEVENS”

1803 v1803

v1803=v1793

3152 stuck]

1813 v1813

v1813=v1803

3152 stuck]

1819 cald1

cald1≈v1813 + magenta underlined

3152 stuck] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “Thrust. See [TN 3.4.? (0000)] Sir Tob and M.W. of W. 11.1. Shall”

1818 Todd

Todd = John +

3152 stuck] Todd (1818, tuck, 1): “n.s. [tweca Welsh; estoc, French; stocco, Italian.] 1. A long narrow sword. [cites Hamlet] “There being prim’d, with force he labour’d To free’s sword from retentive scabbard; And after many a painful pluck, From rusty durance he bail’d tuck. Hudibras, p. i.[cites Milto, Hist. of England. B2].”

1821 v1821

v1821=v1813

3152 stuck]

v1821

3152 stuck] Boswell (ed. 1821, 21:Glossary): “a thrust.”

3152 stuck] Boswell (ed. 1821, 21:Glossary): “a stoccata]] a thrust.”

1822 Nares

Nares : John

3152 stuck] Nares (1822; 1906) : ”A corruption of stock, itself abbreviated from stockado; an assault in fencing. Seee Stock, and STOCKADO ‘I had a pass with him, rapier, scabbard, and all, and he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal motion, that it is inevitable.’ [TN 3.4. (0000)]

“The same is doubtless intended in the following passage, where stucke is the reading both of the first quarto and folio. [cites Ham]

“In Johnson’s Dictionary this is quoted as an example of the word tuck; but this is not warrantable. He first conjectured that it ought to be tuck, and then cited it as an example of that word. It was not till the fourth folio edition, that the word tucke crept in, which certainly would make a convenient sense, being full authorizd as a name for a rapier. But stuck is also sense, and has the support of all the early editions. Stuck, for stock, however, has been found hitherto only in these two examples; stock itself frequently.” [Stockado:(p. 491) ‘A thrust in fencing, or an attack.’]

Nares : standard

3152 stuck] Nares (1822; 1906): “Tuck ]] s. A rapier, now usually termed a small sword. This word is still in some degree of use; and, therefore, does not require exemplifying. It occurs two or three times in Shakespeare; and is there explained by the commentators, as if it were an unknown word.”

1826 sing1

sing1: standard

3152 stuck] Singer (ed. 1826): “A stuck is a thrust. Stoccata, Ital. Sometimes called a stoccado in English.”

1826- msing

msing

3152 stuck] Singer (ms. notes in Singer, ed. 1826, n. 26):”It appears far more probable to me to be a misprint viz. stuck instead of tuck=a rapier; the compos[i]t[o]r app[a]r[en]tly hav[in]g taken up the letter S then discovered his error, assumed the right letter T, from the adjoining box, but omitted to cancel the S.“

1832 cald2

cald2=cald1+

3152 stuck] Caldecott (ed. 1832): “i.e. stroke from ‘tuck (estoc , Fr. G. item Stocco . Ensis longior.’ Skin .) or sticking piece. “

1833 valpy

valpy ≈ standard

3152 stuck] Valpy (ed. 1833): “Thrust.”

1843 col1

col1

3152 stuck] Collier (ed. 1843) : “So all the copies, excepting the quarto, 1637, which has tuck , a word sometimes used for a sword; but ‘stuck’ is warranted by its etymology stoccata , a term in the art of fencing: ‘venom’d stuck’ is equivalent to ‘venom’d thrust.’ The words, ‘But stay, what noise?’ in the next line are only in the quartos, which omit ‘How, sweet queen!’

1844 verp

verp ≈ col1 (minus “The words . . . sweet queen!’”)

3152 stuck]

1854 del2

del2

3152 stuck] Delius (ed. 1854): “stuck =der Stoss des Rapiers.” [“Stuck [is the] thrust of the sword.”]

1856 hud1 (1851-6)

hud1 = sing1 without attribution

3152 stuck]

1856 sing2

sing2 = sing1

3152 stuck]

1857 elze1

elze1 : MAL ; Nares

3152 stuck] Elze (ed. 1857): "So lesen alle Drucke, ausgenommen QG, wo ’tuck’ steht. ’Stuck’ oder ’stock’ is ein Fechtausdruck, vom ital. Stoccata; ’venom’d stuck is equal to venom’d thrust.’ Malone. Vgl. Romeo and Juliet III, I; Merry Wives of W. II, I; Every Man in His Humour I,5—Nares s. Stockado." ["so real all editions, excepting Q5, where ’tuck’ stands. ’Stuck’ or ’stock’ is a fencing thrust, from the Italian Stoccata; ’venom’d stuck is equal to venom’d thrust.’ Malone. Compare [Rom. 3.1.; MWW 2.1.; Every Man in his Humour 1.5—Nares see Stockado."

1858 col3

col3 = col1

3152 stuck]

col3 : standard

3152 stuck] Collier (ed. 1858, Glossary): “thrust.”

col3

3152 stuck] Collier (ed. 1858, Glossary): “Tuck]] a rapier, a sword.”

1859 stau

stau: standard

3152 stuck] Staunton (ed. 1859) “‘Stuck.’=tuck , is perhaps used for a sword; or it may mean a thrust , stoccata”

=gives a note for “stuck” that seems derivative from MALONE 1790 or COL1,

1861 wh1

wh1

3152 stuck] White (ed. 1861) :”The old copies, ‘your venom’d trick ‘ and ‘your venom’d stuck ,’ mere misprints,which correct each other.”

Where does WHITE find “trick”?

1864 glo

glo: standard

3152 stuck] Clark & Wright (ed. 1864, Glossary): “ sb a thrust of a sword.”

1864 ktly

ktly : standard

3152 stuck] Keightley (ed. 1864 [1866]: Glossary):”stoccata]] a thrust or stab. Ital.”

3152 stuck] Keightley (ed. 1864 [1866]: Glossary):”or stock, for stoccata, a term in fencing.”

1864-68 c&mc

c&mc

3152 stuck] Clarke (ed. 1864, Glossary): “(See Stock).”

3152 stuck] Clarke (ed. 1864, Glossary, stock): “A fencing term: to hit in attack.”

3152 stuck] Clarke & Clarke (ed. 1864-68, rpt. 1874-78): “‘Thrust;’ Italian, stoccata. See Note 9, Act iii., [Rom.].”

1865 hal

hal = mal

3152 stuck] Malone (apud Halliwell, ed. 1865) : “‘Your venom’d stuck ,’ is, your venom’d thrust. Stuck was a term of the fencing-school. So, in Twelfth Night : —and he gives me the stuck with such a mortal motion,—.’ Again, in The Return from Parnassus , 1606: ‘Here is a fellow, Judicio, that carried the deadly stocke in his pen.’—See Florio’s Italian Dictionary, 1598: ‘ Stoccata , a foyne, a thrust, a stoccado given in fence. MALONE”

1867 Ktly

Ktly

3152 stuck] Keightley (1867, p. 424): <p. 424> “([TN 3.5.? (0000), Ham. 4.7.? (3152), seems to a corruption of stucco, It., a rapier.” </p. 424>

1869 Romdahl

Romdahl

3152 stuck] Romdahl (1869, p. 40): <p. 40>“thrust, a fencing-term; it is a corruption of stock in the sense of stockade. Fr. estoc, estocade, It. stocco, stoccata, akin to Germ. stock, A.S. stoc, stocce; in all those the idea of pointedness can be traced, each of them signifying either a pointed implement or a thrust with such a one. Stuck for stock occurs also in [TN 3.4.303 (0000)]—Two of the old copies have: tuck (=rapier).” </p. 40>

1870 rug1

rug1 : standard

3152 stuck] Moberly (ed. 1870): “stoccata, thrust.”

1872 del4

del4 = del2

3152 stuck]

1872 cln1

cln1: standard

3152 stuck] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “or ‘stock,’ a fencing term, equivalent to stoccado, or stoccata, the Spanish and Italian terms. Compare [TN 3.4.303 (0000)]: ‘he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal motion, that it is inevitable.’”

1872 hud2

hud2 = hud1

3152 stuck]

1873 rug2

rug2=rug1

3152 stuck] Moberly (ed. 1873): “stoccata, thrust.”

1877 v1877

v1877 : =≈ mals (BLACKSTONE) ; ≈ MAL (minus TN // and Parnassus and Florio) ; ≈ DYCE (Glossary) ; ≈ WHI + magenta underlined

3152 stuck] Dyce (apud Furness, ed. 1877): “More properly stuck, an abbreviation of stoccado.”

3152 stuck] Furness (ed. 1877): I have been unable to find any old copy which so reads [as WHI suggests.”

1877 Neil

Neil ≈ standard

3152 stuck] Neil (ed. 1877, Notes): “thrust. Italian stoccata.”

1881 hud3

hud3 ≈ hud2 ; cald2? or hal? (for TN //)

3152 stuck] Hudson (ed. 1881): “Stuck, a fencing-term, is thrust; the same as the Italian and Spanish stoccata and staccado. So in [TN 3.4.? (0000)]: “He gives me the stuck-in with such mortal motion, that it is inevitable.”

1885 macd

macd ≈ CLN1 w/o attribution +

3152 stuck] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “[Rom. 3.1.? (0000)]. See Shakespeare-Lexicon.”

1890 irv2

Irv2 : standard ; Nares

3152 stuck] Symons (in Irving & Marshall, ed. 1890): “Stuck seems to be found only here and in [TN 3.4.303 (0000)], but it is no doubt the same as stock, used in [MW 2.3.26 (0000)], which means a thurst in fencing—the Italian stoccata (from stocca, a rapier), Spanish estocada (from estoque), French estocade (from estoc, which means both a rapier and the point of a rapier). The word is often found in Elizabethan literature in the form stoccado (compare [MW 2.1.234 (0000)]: ‘your passes, stoccadoes,’ and see Nares, s.v. Stockado). Stoccado is generally defined as the Spanish term, but there is no such word in Spanish.”

irv2 : standard

3152 stuck] Symons (in Irving & Marshall, ed. 1890): “i.e., thrust.”

1891 oxf1

oxf1 : standard

3152 stuck] Craig (ed. 1891: Glossary): “sub. a thrust in fencing, a stock. [TN 3.1.307 (0000).”

3152 stuck] Craig (ed. 1891: Glossary): “stoccado]] sub. a thrust in fencing. [MW 2.1.233 (0000); ‘a stock, [MW 2.3.26 (0000)]. Comp. STUCK.”

1899 ard1

Ard1 ≈ v1877 w/o attribution (Dyce’s Glossary)

3152 stuck] Dowden (ed. 1899): “Dyce: ‘more properly stock, an abbreviation of stoccado,’ or stoccata, a thrust. So [TN 3.4.303 (0000)]. The tucke of Q6[Q5] means rapier.”

1905 rltr

rltr : standard

3152 stuck]

1906 nlsn

nlsn: standard

3152 stuck] Neilson (ed. 1906, Glossary): “tuck]] a rapier.”

1931 crg1

crg1 ≈ standard

3152 stuck]

1934 cam3

cam3 : standard

3152 stuck] Wilson (ed. 1934, Glossary)

1939 kit2

Kit2 ≈ standard (TN ; MW ; Rom. //)+

3152 stuck] Kittredge (ed. 1936): “Marstopn, Antonio’s Revenge, I.2,72 (ed. Buyllen, I, 111): ‘I would pass [i.e. thrust] on him with a mortal stock.”

3152 stuck] Kittredge (ed. 1936, Glossary): “a thrust.”

1938 parc

parc ≈ standard

3152 stuck]

1942 N&H

N&H ≈ standard

3152 stuck]

1947 Cln2

Cln2 ≈ standard

3152 stuck]

1951 alex

Alex ≈ standard

3152 stuck] Alexander (ed. 1951, Glossary)

1951 crg2

crg2=crg1

3152 stuck]

1954 sis

sis ≈ standard

3152 stuck] Sisson (ed. 1954, Glossary, tuck):

1957 pel1

pel1 : standard

3152 stuck]

1970 pel2

pel2=pel1

3152 stuck]

1974 evns1

evns1 ≈standard

3152 stuck]

1980 pen2

pen2 ≈ standard

3152 stuck]

1982 ard2

ard2 ≈ oxf1 ; Ard1+

3152 stuck] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “((cf. [Rom. 3.1.72 (0000)].”

1984 chal

chal : standard

3152 stuck]

1985 cam4

cam4 ≈ standard

3152 stuck]

1987 OXF4

oxf4 ≈ standard ; OED ; TN //

3152 stuck] Hibbard (ed. 1987): “thrust or lunge (OED sb. 2). . . “

1988 bev2

bev2: standard

3152 stuck]

1992 fol2

fol2≈ standard

3152 stuck]

1998 OED

OED

3152 stuck] OED , n2 Fencing Obs. A thrust or lunge;