CRITICAL CONJECTURAL, AND EXPLANATORY, UPON THE PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE; RESULTING FROM A COLLATION OF THE EARLY COPIES, WITH THAT OF JOHNSON AND STEEVENS, EDITED BY ISAAC REED, Esq. TOGETHER WITH SOME VALUABLE EXTRACTS FROM THE MSS. OF THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN, LORD CHEDWORTH. DEDICATED TO RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, Esq. By E. H. SEYMOUR. VOL. II LONDON: Printed by J. Wright, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell; FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, 256. "Be not out with me." i. e. Be not out of humour with me; be not unkindly disposed towards me: the phrase is still current in Ireland. 258. -There have sat." This corrupt use of the imperfect past tense for the perfect, sitten, has become so general as to make propriety almost obsolete. "That Tyber trembled," &c. Insomuch that Tyber trembled, &c. as in Macbeth: "There's one did laugh in his sleep, and one cried murder, "That they did wake each other." Weep your tears "Into the channel, till the lowest stream "Do kiss the most exalted shores of all." |