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Page vii
... play ; ( 2 ) to exhibit the sources of the text and to record all variants of interest in the earliest editions ; and ( 3 ) to elucidate obscure passages , with illustrations from contemporary literature . = The text will be found to be ...
... play ; ( 2 ) to exhibit the sources of the text and to record all variants of interest in the earliest editions ; and ( 3 ) to elucidate obscure passages , with illustrations from contemporary literature . = The text will be found to be ...
Page viii
... play was entered in the Stationers ' Register , together with Much Ado About Nothing , by Andrew Wise and William Aspley on August 23 , 1600 : - Andrewe Wyse William Aspley ( 1600 ) 23 AUGUSTI Entred for their copies vnder the handes of ...
... play was entered in the Stationers ' Register , together with Much Ado About Nothing , by Andrew Wise and William Aspley on August 23 , 1600 : - Andrewe Wyse William Aspley ( 1600 ) 23 AUGUSTI Entred for their copies vnder the handes of ...
Page ix
... play the first scene of Act III . was omitted , whether by accident or as the result of some defect or confusion in the printer's copy . The omission was afterwards rectified , room being found for the missing scene by taking to pieces ...
... play the first scene of Act III . was omitted , whether by accident or as the result of some defect or confusion in the printer's copy . The omission was afterwards rectified , room being found for the missing scene by taking to pieces ...
Page x
... play and the numerous minor variations in the text , that the editors of the Folio " had to content themselves with a more or less faulty transcript - itself perhaps two or three degrees removed from the original . " " Finally , Mr ...
... play and the numerous minor variations in the text , that the editors of the Folio " had to content themselves with a more or less faulty transcript - itself perhaps two or three degrees removed from the original . " " Finally , Mr ...
Page xi
... play in the author's autograph . If , however , the text of the Folio was printed from a transcript , or , as Rolfe has suggested , from a copy of the Quarto collated with a transcript of the author's manuscript , the transcript in ...
... play in the author's autograph . If , however , the text of the Folio was printed from a transcript , or , as Rolfe has suggested , from a copy of the Quarto collated with a transcript of the author's manuscript , the transcript in ...
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Page 20 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 187 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 164 - It ascends me into the brain ; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it ; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes ; which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Page 110 - Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs...
Page 186 - Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course, to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days.
Page 113 - God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea; and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Page 219 - King. I know thee not, old man : fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool and...