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

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3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life,	5.2.22

1580 Barrett

Barrett

3522 bugges] Barrett (1580, Bug, #1453): “Spectrum, tri, neut. gen. Cicero. Larua, uæ, f.g. Lemures, rum, pen. cor.m.g. plural. Varro [fasma]

1755 John

John

3522 goblines] Johnson (1755, goblin, 1): “n.s. [French; gobelina, which Spenser has once retained writing it in three syllables. This word some derive from the giellines a faction in Italy; so that elfe and goblin is Guelph and Gibelline, because the children of either party were terrified by their nurses with the name of the other: but it appears that else is Welsh, and much older than those factions. EilffUylhon are phantoms of the night, and the Germans likewise have long had spirits among them named Goboldi, from which gobelin might be derived.]

“1. An evil spirit; a walking spirit; a frightful phantom. ‘Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn’d, Bring with thee airs from heav’n, or blasts from hell?’ Shak. ‘To whom the gobli, full of wrath, reply’d, Art thou that traytor angel?’ Milton’s PL, ii. ‘Always, whilst he is young be sure to preserve his tender mind from all impressions and notions of spirits and goblins, or any fearful apprehensions in the dark.’ Locke.”

John

3522 bugges] Johnson (1755, bug): “ {bugbear}. n.s. [It is derived by some from big, by others from pug; bug, in Welch, has the same meaning.] A frightful object; a walking spectre, imagined to be seen; generally now used for a false terror to frighten babes. ‘Each trembling leaf and whistling wind they hear, As ghastly bug their hair on end does rear, Yet both do strive their fearfulness to reign. FQ b.ii

“‘Sir, spare your threats; The bug which you would fright me with, I seek. ‘ Shakespeare.

“‘Hast not slept to night? would he not, naughty man, let it sleep? a bugbear take him.’ Troilus.

“‘We have a horrour for un couth monsters; but, upon custom and experience, all these bugs grow familiar and easy to us.’ L’Estrange.

“‘Such bugbear thoughts, once got into the tender minds of children, sink deep, so as not easly, if ever, to be got out again.’ Locke.

“‘To the world, no bugbear is so great, As want of figure, an a small estate.’ Pope”

1765 john1

john1:

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ] Johnson (ed. 1765) : “With such causes of terrour, arising from my character and designs.”

1770 han3

han3

3522 bugges] Hanmer (ed. 1770, 6:Glossary): “a bug-bear, a terrifick being. ‘Orestes bayted was with bugges.’ Chau.”

1773 v1773

v1773 = john1

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ]

1774 capn

capn

3522 bugges] Capell (1774:1:1:Glossary) : “ [WT 3.2.93 (1272)] an Apparition, or Bug-bear.”

1778 v1778

v1778 = v1773 +

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ] Steevens (ed. 1778) : “A bug was no less a terrific being than a goblin. So, in Spenser’s Faery Queen . B.2.c.3: ‘As ghastly bug their haire on end does reare.’ We call it as present a bugbear.’ STEEVENS”

1784 ays1

ays1 ≈ v1778 (minus FQ //)

3522 bugges]

1785 v1785

v1785 = v1778

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ]

1787 ann

ann = v1785

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ]

1790 mal

mal = v1785 + magenta underlined

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ] Malone (ed. 1790) : “See Vol. VI. p. 373, n. 4. MALONE”

1791- rann

rann ≈ john1

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ] Rann (ed. 1791) : “such causes of alarm from my suspicious conduct.”

1793 v1793

v1793 = mal (modified for edition See Vol. X. p. 376, n. 7)

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ]

1803 v1803

v1803 = v1793 (modified for edition)

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ]

1807 Pye

Pye : v1803 [the brief “A bug was no less a terrific being than a goblin of v1778] + magenta underlined

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ] Pye (1807, p. 327) : “Very true; but why was te poor bugaboo defrauded of his niche in the temple of fame?”

1813 v1813

v1813 = v1803 (modified for edition)

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ]

1818 Todd

Todd ≈ John +

3522 bugges] Todd (1818, bug): “{bugbear}. n.s. [It is derived by some from big, by others from pug; bug, in Welch, has the same meaning. Dr. Johnson says. Pug was an old term for the devil. See Puck. But bug is the Celtic bwg, a goblin; whence also bogle, which see. Bugbear was formerly written bearbug, in order, I suppose, to be represented as a fit companion for another ‘word of fear,’ bullbeggar: As children be afraid of bearbugs and bulbeggers,’ Sir T. Smith, Append. to his Life, p. 34] ] A frightful object; a walking spectre, imagined to be seen; generally now used for a false terror to frighten babes. ‘Each trembling leaf and whistling wind they hear, As ghastly bug their hair on end does rear, Yet both do strive their fearfulness to reign. FQ b.ii

“Sir, spare your threats; The bug which you would fright me with, I seek. “Shakespeare.

“Hast not slept to night? would he not, naughty man, let it sleep? a bugbear take him.” Troilus.

“We have a horrour for un couth monsters; but, upon custom and experience, all these bugs grow familiar and easy to us. “ L’Estrange.

“Such bugbear thoughts, once got into the tender minds of children, sink deep, so as not easly, if ever, to be got out again.” Locke.

“To the world, no bugbear is so great, As want of figure, an a small estate.” Pope

Todd ≈ John +

3522 goblines] Todd (1818, goblin, 1): “n.s. [French; gobelina, which Spenser has once retained writing it in three syllables. This word some derive from the giellines a faction in Italy; so that elfe and goblin is Guelph and Gibelline, because the children of either party were terrified by their nurses with the name of the other: but it appears that else is Welsh, and much older than those factions. EilffUylhon are phantoms of the night, and the Germans likewise have long had spirits among them named Goboldi, from which gobelin might be derived. The word is probably from the Gr. [kobalos], a kind of demon, according to the scholiast on the Plutus of Aristophanes; whence also the low Latin gobelinus. ‘Dæmon enim, quem de Dianæ phano expulit, adhuc in eadem urbe degit, et in variis frequenter formis apparens neminem lædit. Hunc vulgus gobelinum appellat.’ Orderic. Vitalis, lib. 5. p. 556. Du Cange repesents the goblin as delighting more in mockery than mischief. V. GOBELINUS]

1819 cald1

cald1 : standard

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ] Caldecott (ed. 1819) : “Such multiplied causes of alarm, such bugbears, if I were suffered to live.”

1821 v1821

v1821 = v1813 (modified for edition)

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ]

v1821

3522 bugges] Boswell (ed. 1821, 21:Glossary, bug): “an object of terror.”

1826 sing1

sing1 ≈ v1821 (minus //)

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ] Singer (ed. 1826) : “‘With such causes of terror arising from my character and designs.’ Bugs were no less terrific than goblins. We now call them bugbears.”

[Ed: SING1 quotes JOHN1 without attributing the quotation to JOHNSON]

1832 cald2

cald2 = cald1

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ]

1833 valpy

valpy ≈ standard

3522 bugges] Valpy (ed. 1833): “Bugbears.”

1845 gents

Mitford

3522 bugges and goblines] Mitford (1845, pp. 130-31): <p. 130>“These two words are generally joined, as in Ritson’s Popular Poetry, p. 98, ‘Hobgoblins and such other bugs.’

“Brit. Bibliographer, I. 549. ‘(S. Rowland’s More Knaves Yet.) Great store of goblins, fairies, bugs, nightmare, urchins, and elves.’

“Sometimes separately, as Lisle’s Dubartas, v. Dedic. ‘And sing the muse will of no greater bug, Than are betwixt a young child and his dug.’ </p. 130> <p. 131>

“The Honest Lawyer, p. 65; ‘He would turn back at such imagined bugges.’

“Selimus, 4to. p. 67, ‘He brings with him that great Egyptian bug, Strong Tonombey.’

“Todd’s Milton, vol. V. p. 425, ‘Harpies and Hydras, or all the monstrous bugges.’

“Comus, v. 605, as in the original MS. In the Psalm XCI. verse 5, ‘the terrour by night,’ in the old version, is ‘the bugge of night;’ and see Hall’s Satires, ed. Singer, p. 76.” </p. 131>

1854 del2

del2 :

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life] Delius (ed. 1854) : “Hamlets Lebendigbleiben war in dem Briefe so gefährlich dargestellt, als steckten lauter Popanze und Gespenster (bugs and goblins) darin.—Ho ist=hu! ein Ausruf des Grausens.” [Hamlet’s continued living [in England and Denmark, I guess] was represented in the letter as dangerous, as pure stings of bugs and goblins therein. Ho is hu! a cry of horror.]

1856 hud1 (1851-6)

hud1

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life] Hudson (ed. 1856) :: “The Poet several times uses bugs for bugbears . See [3H6 5.2.2(2756)], , note 1.”

1856 sing2

sing2 = sing1

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ]

1857 elze1

elze1: Mommsen

3522 bugges] Elze (ed. 1857, 250): <p. 250>"ueber die Etymologie des Wortes ’bug’ vgl. Atlantis I, 32 und Mommsen P.-S.209." ["For the etymology of the word ’bug,’ compare Atlantis I, 32 and Mommsen 209."

1859 stau

stau = john1

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ]

1864 ktly

ktly : standard

3522 bugges] Keightley (ed. 1864 [1866]: Glossary): “bugbear.”

1864-68 c&mc

c&mc ≈ standard

3522 bugges] Clarke (ed. 1864, Glossary)

3522 Clarke & Clarke (ed. 1864-68, rpt. 1874-78): “‘Such causes of terror from my dangerous disposition should I be suffered to continue alive. ‘Bugs’ is an abbreviation of ‘bugbears.’ See Note 19, Act iii., [WT].

C&MC

1869 Romdahl

Romdahl ≈ standard

3522 bugges]

1869 tsch

tsch : Nares

3522 bugges] Tschischwitz (ed. 1869): “bug für larva, terriculamentum, Popanz. Kelt. bwg, vielleicht slav. bog, deus, dän puck, nach Nares: Kobold (goblin, k_baloj). Hamlet meint: Die Gefahren, welche den Staaten Dänemark und England erwüchsen, wenn er am. Leben bliebe, seien wie Teufel und Gespenster in dem Schreiben aus gemalt gewesen.” [“bug for larva, terriculamentum, Popanz. Celtic, bwg, perhaps Slavic, bog, deus; Danish puck, according to Nares: Kobold (goblin, k_baloj ). Hamlet means: the danger, which grew in the state of Denmark and England if he stays alive, may have been portrayed as the devil and a ghost in the writing.”

1872 del4

del4 = del2

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life]

1872 cln1

cln1

3522 bugges] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “Bugbears, objects of terror. Compare [WT 3.2.93 (1272)]: ‘The bug which you would fright me with I seek.’ In Coverdale’s translation of the Psalms (Ps. cx, or according to the present numbering xci, 5) we find: ‘So yt thou shalt not nede to be frayed for eny bugges by night ner for arrowe that flyeth by daye.’ In Cotgrave ‘Goblin’ and ‘Bug’ are given as translations of the French Gobelin.”

1872 hud2

hud2 ≈ hud1

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life] Hudson (ed. 1872): Such bugbears and fantastic dangers growing out of my life. The Poet has bug several times in that sense. Thus, in [WT 3.2.93 (1272)]: ‘Sir, spare your threats: the bug, which you would fright me with, I seek.’”

hud2 ≈ hud1

3522 goblines] Hudson (ed. 1872): “Goblins were a knavish sort of fairies, perhaps ignes fatui, and so belonged to the genus Humbug.”

hud2 : standard

1873 rug2

rug2 ≈ standard

3522 Moberly (ed. 1873): “Such bugbears and terrors in case I was allowed to live.”

1876 Nares

Nares : standard +

3522 bugges] Nares (1822; rev. & enl. 1876; 1905): “now usually BUGBEAR. An object of teror; a species of goblin. Bwg, in Welsch, means a goblin; and Pug, in English probably derived from it, had often the same meaning. See PUG. [cites Tam 1.2] ‘Afterwards they tell them, that those which they saw, were bugs, witches, and hags.’ Lavaterus, de Spectris, transl. 1572, p. 21.’ Lemures are described by Ab. Fleming, as ‘Hobgolins, or night-walking spirits, black bugs Nomen. p. 471a. ‘Those that would die or ere resist, are grown The mortal bugs o’ the field. [Cym. 5.3.? (0000)]. ‘ Which be the very bugges that the Psalme meaneth on, walking in the night and in corners. Asch. Toxoph., p. 61, new ed.” [In Matthew’s Bible, Ps. xci, 5, is rendered, ‘Thou shalt not nede to be afraid of any bugs by night.’] ‘This hand shall hale them down to deepest hell, Where none but furies, bugs, aud tortures dwell.’ Spanish. Trag., O. Pl, iii, 234.”

1877 v1877

v1877 : del4 (only Ho ist=hu! ein Ausruf des Grausens)

3522 hoe]

v1877 = cald2

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life ]

v1877 ≈ cln1 (minus WT quotation)

3522 bugges] Clark & Wright (apud Furness, ed. 1877): “Bugbears, objects of terror. Compare [WT 3.2.93 (1272)]. In Coverdale’s translation of the Psalms (Ps. cx, or according to the present numbering xci, 5) we find: ‘So yt thou shalt not nede to be frayed for eny bugges by night ner for arrowe that flyeth by daye.’ In Cotgrave ‘Goblin’ and ‘Bug’ are given as translations of the French Gobelin.”

1877 neil

neil ; standard ; Latham

3522 bugges] Neil (ed. 1877, Notes): “frightful spectres; from Welsh bwg, to frighten, or Slavonic bog, deity. ‘It is,’ Dr. R.G. Latham says, ‘almost certainly the same word as Puck, perhaps the root of Bacchus. Nearly two thousand years later it was adopted by Shakespeare; perhaps as the name of a goblin of the Avon and the Forest of Arden’—See [WT 3.2.23 (1272)].”

1881 hud3

Hud3 ≈hud2

3522 With hoe such bugges and goblines in my life] Hudson (ed. 1881): “ Such bugbears and fantastic dangers growing out of my life. The Poet has bug several times in that sense. See vol. vii. page 190, note 9.”

hud3 = hud2

3522 goblines]

1883 wh2

wh2

3522 bugges] White (ed. 1883): “terrible things.”

1885 macd

macd ≈ standard

3522 bugges] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “

1885 mull

mull ≈ standard

3522 bugges]

mull

3522 in my life] Mull (ed. 1885): “while I live.”

1889 Barnett

Barnett : standard

3522 bugges]] Barnett (1889, p. 62): <p. 62>“a terrifying spectre, bugbears. The word occurs again in [Tam. 1.2.211 (777)]. Welsh bwg, a hobgolin.” </p. 62>

Barnett : standard

3522 goblines] Barnett (1889, p. 62): <p. 62>“wicked sprites. Cf. [Ham. 1.4.40 (623)].”

Barnett : standard

3522 in my life] Barnett (1889, p. 62): <p. 62>“in my living.” </p. 62>

1890 irv2

irv 2: standard

3522 bugges] Symons (in Irving & Marshall, ed. 1890): “bugbears.”

Irv2 : v1877 (gloss & Cotgrave //) ;≈ HUD2? (3H6 //)

3522 bugges] Symons (in Irving & Marshall, ed. 1890):

irv2

3522 in my life] Symons (in Irving & Marshall, ed. 1890): “in my continuing to live.”

1891 oxf1

oxf1 : standard

3522 bugges] Craig (ed. 1891: Glossary): “an object of terror, [3H6 5.2.2 (2756)].”

1899 ard1

ard1 ≈ Barnett (Tam. //) w/o attribution? + magenta underlined

3522 bugges] Dowden (ed. 1899): “bugbears, as in[Tam. 1.2.211 (777)]. In Chapman’s Gentleman Usher, enter ‘Sylvan, with a Nymph, a man Bugge and a woman.’”

1905 rltr

rltr : standard

3522 bugges]

1906 nlsn

nlsn : standard

3522 bugges] Neilson (ed. 1906, Glossary)

1931 crg1

crg1 ≈ standard

3522 such . . . life] Craig (ed. 1931): “such imaginary dangers if I were allowed to live, or such exaggeration of the actual facts of my life.”

3522 bugges]

1934 cam3

cam3 ≈ john1

3522 Wilson (ed. 1934)

cam3 : standard

3522 bugges] Wilson (ed. 1934, Glossary)

1934 rid1

rid1 : standard

3522 bugges] Ridley (ed. 1934, Glossary):

1939 kit2

kit2

3522 hoe] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “An interjection expressing fright.”

kit2

3522-such . . . life] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “interspersed with such outbursts as to the danger of leaving a terrible creature like me alive.”

kit2 ≈ standard

3522 bugges]

3522 bugges] Kittredge (ed. 1939, Glossary):

1937 pen1a

pen1a : standard

3522 bugges]

1938 parc

parc

3522 such . . . life] Parrott (ed. 1938): “such bugbears and imagined terrors if I were allowed to live.”

1947 cln2

cln2 ≈ standard

3522 bugges]

cln2

3522 bugges and goblines] Rylands (ed. 1947, Notes): “Johnson suggests that these are crimes imputed to Hamlet rather than punishments threatened to the bearers.”

1951 crg2

crg2=crg1

3522 such . . . life]

crg2=crg1

3522 bugges]

1954 sis

sis ≈ standard

3522 bugges] Sisson (ed. 1954, Glossary)

1957 pel1

pel1 : standard

3522 bugges]

1970 pel2

pel2=pel1

3522 bugges]

1974 evns1

evns1 ≈ standard

3522 bugges]

1980 pen2

pen2 ≈ crg1 w/o attribution

3522 such . . . life]

pen2 ≈ crg1 w/o attribution

3522 bugges] Spencer (ed. 1980): “spoken contemptuously, for Hamlet believes them to be imaginary.”

1982 ard2

ard2 ≈ standard (definition ; Tam.//) +

3522 bugges and goblines] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “[Tro. 5.10.29 (3566)] to goblins as the creation of ‘frenzy’.”

1984 chal

chal : standard

3522 bugges] Wilkes (ed. 1984): "bogeys ((as though there were a danger in his remaining alive))."

1985 cam4

cam4 ≈ standard

3522 bugges and goblines]

1987 oxf4

oxf4

3522 bugges and goblines] Hibbard (ed. 1987): “i.e. such a mass of trumped up dangers and threats consequent on my being alive.”

oxf4 ≈ standard

3522 bugges]

1988 bev2

bev2: standard

3522 bugges

bev2 : parc

3522 such . . . life]

1992 fol2

fol2≈ standard

3522 bugges]

1993 dent

dent ≈ standard

3522 bugges]

1998 OED

OED

3522 bugges] OED bug (b), sb. 1 Obs. or dial. `a ghost’, quoted in Lhwyd’s Archæologia Brit. (1707) 214, from theMS. Welsh Vocabulary of Henry Salesbury (born 1561). Owen Pugh has bwg `hobgoblin,scarecrow’; but the word is apparently now known chiefly in its derivatives. When bug becamecurrent as the name of an insect (see BUG sb.2), this sense fell into disuse, and now survives only in the compound BUGBEAR. Cf. BOGY1, BUGABOO. Although Salesbury’s evidence takes the Welsh word back only to the latter half of the 16th c., before which there was plenty of time for its adoption from the Eng. bugge, bug, its Welsh nativity is strongly supported by a numerous family of derivatives [. . . ], 1388 WYCLIF Baruch vi. 69 As a bugge, either a man of raggis [1611 scarcrow] in a place where gourdis wexen. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 55 Bugge, or buglarde, maurus, ducius. 1529 MORE Comfort agst. Trib. I. Wks. (1557) 1161/2 Lest there happe to be such black bugges in dede as folke call deuilles. 1535 COVERDALE Ps. xc[i]. 5 Thou shalt not nede to be afrayed for eny bugges by night. 1565 JEWEL Def. Apol. (1611) 285 A bug meet only to fray Children. 1579 GOSSON Sch. Abuse 23 Caligula..bid his horse to supper..and swore by no bugs that hee would make him a Consul. 1593 SHAKS. 3 Hen. VI, V. ii. 2 Warwicke was a Bugge that fear’d vs all.

OED

3522 goblines] 1.A mischievous and ugly demon. a 1327 Pol. Songs (Camden) 238 Sathanas..Seyde on is sawe Gobelyn made is gerner Of gromene mawe. 1388 WYCLIF Ps. xc. 6 Of an arowe fliynge in the dai, of a gobelyn goynge in derknessis.