A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Macbeth. 1873J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1873 |
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... CLARENDON . It means a gray cat . Malkin ' is a diminutive of Mary . ' ' Mau- kin , ' the same word , is still used in Scotland for a hare . Compare IV , i , 1 . 9. Paddock ] STEEVENS . According to Goldsmith a frog is called a paddock ...
... CLARENDON . It means a gray cat . Malkin ' is a diminutive of Mary . ' ' Mau- kin , ' the same word , is still used in Scotland for a hare . Compare IV , i , 1 . 9. Paddock ] STEEVENS . According to Goldsmith a frog is called a paddock ...
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... CLARENDON . That is , drown each other by rendering their skill in swim- ming useless . ' Choke ' was anciently used of suffocation by water as well as by other means . See Mark , v , 13 : The herd ran violently down a steep place into ...
... CLARENDON . That is , drown each other by rendering their skill in swim- ming useless . ' Choke ' was anciently used of suffocation by water as well as by other means . See Mark , v , 13 : The herd ran violently down a steep place into ...
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... CLARENDON . We should have expected all was too weak . ' The abbreviation ' s for ' was ' is not used elsewhere by ... CLARENDON . There is some incurable corruption of the text here . 21. shook hands ] CLARENDON . Mr J. Bullock suggests ...
... CLARENDON . We should have expected all was too weak . ' The abbreviation ' s for ' was ' is not used elsewhere by ... CLARENDON . There is some incurable corruption of the text here . 21. shook hands ] CLARENDON . Mr J. Bullock suggests ...
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... CLARENDON . ' Swells ' seems the best word , indicating that , instead of a fertilizing stream , a desolating flood had poured from the spring . 30. skipping ] CLARENDON . An epithet appropriate enough to the rapid move- ments of the ...
... CLARENDON . ' Swells ' seems the best word , indicating that , instead of a fertilizing stream , a desolating flood had poured from the spring . 30. skipping ] CLARENDON . An epithet appropriate enough to the rapid move- ments of the ...
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... CLARENDON . From the Anglo - Saxon ' þegen , ' literally , a servant , and then , technically , the king's servant , defined to be an Anglo - Saxon nobleman , infe- rior in rank to an eorl and ealdorman ' ( Bosworth ) . Ultimately the ...
... CLARENDON . From the Anglo - Saxon ' þegen , ' literally , a servant , and then , technically , the king's servant , defined to be an Anglo - Saxon nobleman , infe- rior in rank to an eorl and ealdorman ' ( Bosworth ) . Ultimately the ...
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Page 91 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing : It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
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