Notes and Conjectural Emendations of Certain Doubtful Passages in Shakespeare's PlaysR. Hardwicke, 1870 - 85 pages |
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4th Folios adopted affright thee hard alteration beare believe bowgh-wawgh bran breath burthen Cæsar Cambridge Edition Cleon conjectural emendations Coriolanus Cymbeline daughter Dauphin of France death death guarded doth Dragons here affright dumb show Dyce editors euery Gentlemen of Verona giue GOWER Harke hatch'd hath haue heere Hellicanus late Hesperides high estate instance Julius Cæsar kill'd a Mouse labour left to govern line read Lord loue Love's Malone Measure for Measure Michael Cassio Midsummer Night's Dream modern editions neuer never kill'd night noble NOTE.-In NOTES AND CONJECTURAL oaths old copies Old Escanes Old Hellicanus goes Osrick Othello passage Posthumus pronounced Quartos Queene read in second read,—but rhyme SCENE second line seems selfe sense Shakespeare speech Steevens SUBSCRIPTION FUND sweet Theobald's third line thou Troilus and Cressida unborn event usual reading vpon wench full grown WEST HARDING STREET What's dumbe word
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