Arm. The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of 919, 920. The words... Apollo] In Q I printed in larger type. that way: we, this way] omitted Q 1. (written ante 1590), III. iv.: “To whit, to who, the owle does cry; Phip, phip, the sparrowes as they fly." Nashe has it in the Song of Ver in Summer's Last Will (1592). Compare, again, Lyly's Endymion, III. iii.: "There appeared in my sleep a goodly owle, who sitting upon my shoulder, cried twit, twit, and before mine eyes presented herselfe the expresse image of Dipsas. I marvailed what the owle said, till at last, I perceived twit, twit, to it, to it." 909. keel the pot] cool the pot, as a cook does by "stirring, skimming, or pouring on something cold, in order to prevent it boiling over (New Eng. Dict.). Steevens quotes from Marston's What You Will (opening of the play), 1607: "Faith, Doricus, thy brain boils; keel it, keel it, or all the fat's in the fire." And see Marston again, Bullen's edition, i. 77. There is a good example in A Twelfe Night Merriment (Narcissus) (edited M. Lee, 1892, p. 32), 1602: "If the cookes heare that the porridg pott of my mouth runnes over soe, they will keele it with the ladle of reprehension." This writer's adherence to Shakespeare has been noticed at III. i. 66 (note). Skeat has a note on "keel" in his edition of Piers the Plowman (ii. 270). He quotes Kelyn, or make colde, frigefacio" (Prompt. Parvulorum). 914. crabs] crab-apples. See A Midsummer-Night's Dream, II. i. 48. Nares quotes from the old song in 920 [Exeunt. 920. You, Gammer Gurton's Needle, Act ii.: "I I. i. 55-58 ADDITIONAL NOTES Biron. What is the end of study? let me know. King. Why, that to know which else we should not know. Biron. Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense? New English Dictionary has this as the only illustration of the meaning for "common sense; ordinary or untutored perception." A passage in Golding's Ovid (xv. 80), 1567, makes it seem likely that Shakespeare may have had his Numa in his thoughts, the philosopher-king who retired to the country to devote himself to literary pursuits. Numa "Was glad Too make himself a bannisht man. And though this persone weere He taught his silent sort The first foundation of the world. What shakes the earth: what law the starres doo keepe theyr courses under He also is the first that did injoyne an abstinence Too feede of any lyving thing." Iv. i. 65. Mr. Craig gives me an early reference to Cophetua and the beggar, from T. Deloney's The Gentle Craft (1597-98), edited by A. Lange, 1903, p. 36: "Most aptly is the god of love by cunning painters drawn blind, that so equally shoots forth his fiery shafts: for had he eyes to see it were impossible to deal in such sort as in matching faire Venus with foul Vulcan, yoking the imperiall hearts of Kings to the love of beggars as she did to Cofetua." 364 THE ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS LIMITED 70 652 AA A 30. 63 |
