1 (return)
[ To the Gentlemen-readers,
&c.] From the 8vo of 1592: in the 4tos this address is worded here and
there differently. I have not thought it necessary to mark the varioe
lectiones of the worthy printer's composition.]
2 (return)
[ histories] i.e. dramas so
called,—plays founded on history.]
3 (return)
[ fond] i.e. foolish.—Concerning
the omissions here alluded to, some remarks will be found in the ACCOUNT
OF MARLOWE AND HIS WRITINGS.]
The "Account of Marlowe and His Writings," is the
introduction to this book of 'The Works of Christopher
Marlowe.' That is, the book from which this play has been
transcribed. The following is from pages xvi and xvii of
that introduction.
"This tragedy, which was entered in the Stationers' Books,
14th August, 1590,[a] and printed during the same year, has
not come down to us in its original fulness; and probably we
have no cause to lament the curtailments which it suffered
from the publisher of the first edition. "I have
purposely,"
he says, "omitted and left out some fond and frivolous
gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet
for the matter, which I thought might seem more tedious unto
the wise than any way else to be regarded, though haply they
have been of some vain-conceited fondlings greatly gaped at,
what time they were shewed upon the stage in their graced
deformities: nevertheless now to be mixtured in print with
such matter of worth, it would prove a great disgrace to so
honourable and stately a history."[b] By the words, "fond
and frivolous gestures," we are to understand those of the
"clown;" who very frequently figured, with more or less
prominence, even in the most serious dramas of the time.
The introduction of such buffooneries into tragedy[c] is
censured by Hall towards the conclusion of a passage which,
as it mentions "the Turkish Tamberlaine," would seem to be
partly levelled at Marlowe:[d]
"One higher-pitch'd doth set his soaring thought
On crowned kings that Fortune hath low brought,
Or some vpreared high-aspiring swaine,
As it might be THE TURKISH TAMBERLAINE.
Then weeneth he his base drink-drowned spright
Rapt to the three-fold loft of heauen hight,
When he conceiues vpon his fained stage
The stalking steps of his greate personage,
Graced with huf-cap termes and thundring threats,
That his poore hearers' hayre quite vpright sets.
* * * * * * * * *
NOW, LEAST SUCH FRIGHTFULL SHOWES OF FORTUNE'S FALL
AND BLOUDY TYRANTS' RAGE SHOULD CHANCE APALL
THE DEAD-STROKE AUDIENCE, MIDST THE SILENT ROUT
COMES LEAPING IN A SELFE-MISFORMED LOUT,
AND LAUGHES, AND GRINS, AND FRAMES HIS MIMIK FACE,
AND IUSTLES STRAIGHT INTO THE PRINCE'S PLACE:
THEN DOTH THE THEATRE ECCHO ALL ALOUD
WITH GLADSOME NOYSE OF THAT APPLAUDING CROWD:
A GOODLY HOCH-POCH, WHEN VILE RUSSETTINGS
ARE MATCH['D] WITH MONARCHS AND WITH MIGHTIE KINGS!"[e]
But Hall's taste was more refined and classical than that
of his age; and the success of TAMBURLAINE, in which the
celebrated Alleyn represented the hero,[f] was adequate to
the most sanguine expectations which its author could have
formed.]
[a] "A ballad entituled the storye of Tamburlayne the
greate," &c. (founded, I suppose, on Marlowe's play)
was entered in the Stationers' Books, 5th Nov. 1594.
[b] P. 4 of the present volume.
[c] In Italy, at the commencement of the 18th century
(and probably much later), it was not unusual to
introduce "the Doctor," "Harlequin," "Pantalone," and
"Coviello," into deep tragedies. "I have seen," says
Addison, "a translation of THE CID acted at Bolonia,
which would never have taken, had they not found a
place in it for these buffoons." REMARKS ON SEVERAL
PARTS OF ITALY, &C. IN THE YEARS 1701, 1702, 1703,
p. 68, ed. 1745.
[d] Perhaps I ought to add, that Marlowe was dead when
(in 1597) the satire, from which these lines are quoted,
was first given to the press.
[e] Hall's VIRGID. Lib. I. Sat. iii., ed. 1602.
[f] See Heywood's Prol. to our author's JEW OF MALTA,
p. 142 of the present volume.[See the Project
Gutenberg E-Text of 'The Jew of Malta.' "]
4 (return)
[ censures] i.e. judgments,
opinions.]
5 (return)
[ Afric] So the 8vo.—The
4to "Affrica."]
6 (return)
[ their] Old eds. "his."]
7 (return)
[ through] So the 4to.—The
8vo "thorough."]
8 (return)
[ incivil] i.e. barbarous.—So
the 8vo.—The 4to "vnciuill."]
9 (return)
[ incontinent] i.e.
forthwith, immediately.]
10 (return)
[ chiefest] So the 8vo.—The
4to "chiefe."]
11 (return)
[ rout] i.e. crew.]
12 (return)
[ press] So the 8vo.—The
4to "prease."]
13 (return)
[ you] So the 8vo.—0mitted
in the 4to.]
14 (return)
[ all] So the 4to.—0mitted
in the 8vo.]
15 (return)
[ mated] i.e. confounded.]
16 (return)
[ pass not] i.e. care not.]
17 (return)
[ regiment] i.e. rule,
government.]
18 (return)
[ resolve] i.e. dissolve.—So
the 8vo.—The 4to "dissolue."]
19 (return)
[ ships] So the 4to.—The
8vo "shippe."]
20 (return)
[ Pass] So the 8vo.—The
4to "Hast."]
21 (return)
[ you] So the 8vo.—The
4to "they."]
22 (return)
[ Ceneus] Here both the old
eds. "Conerus."]
23 (return)
[ states] i.e. noblemen,
persons of rank.]
24 (return)
[ their] So the 8vo.—The
4to "the."]
25 (return)
[ and Persia] So the 8vo.—The
4to "and OF Persia."]
26 (return)
[ ever-raging] So the 8vo.—The
4to "RIUER raging."]
27 (return)
[ ALL] So the 4to.—Omitted
in the 8vo.]
28 (return)
[ And Jove may, &c.]
i.e. And may Jove, &c. This collocation of words is sometimes found in
later writers: so in the Prologue to Fletcher's WOMAN'S PRIZE,—"WHICH
this may PROVE!"]
29 (return)
[ knew] So the 8vo.—The
4to "knowe."]
30 (return)
[ lords] So the 4to.—The
8vo "Lord."]
31 (return)
[ injury] This verb
frequently occurs in our early writers. "Then haue you INIURIED manie."
Lyly's ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE, sig. D 4, ed. 1591. It would seem to have
fallen into disuse soon after the commencement of the 17th century: in
Heywood's WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS, 1607, we find,
"You INJURY that good man, and wrong me too."
Sig. F 2.
but in ed. 1617 "injury" is altered to "iniure."]
32 (return)
[ ALL] So the 4to.—0mitted
in the 8vo.]
33 (return)
[ Who, travelling, &c.]
The halting metre shews that there is some corruption in this and the next
line.]
34 (return)
[ thorough] So the 8vo.—The
4to "through."]
35 (return)
[ unvalued] i.e. not to be
valued, or estimated.]
36 (return)
[ conceit] i.e. fancy,
imagination.]
37 (return)
[ Rhodope] Old eds.
"Rhodolfe."]
38 (return)
[ valurous] i.e. valuable.]
39 (return)
[ pools] So the 8vo.—The
4to "Poles."]
40 (return)
[ resolv'd] i.e. dissolved.—So
the 8vo.—The 4to "desolu'd."]
41 (return)
[ Shall we all offer] The
8vo "Shall we offer" (the word "all" having dropt out).—The 4to "WE
ALL SHALL offer."]
42 (return)
[ in] The 8vo "it."—Omitted
in the 4to.]
43 (return)
[ triumph'd] So the 8vo.—The
4to "tryumph."]
44 (return)
[ brave] i.e. splendidly
clad.]
45 (return)
[ top] So the 4to.—The
8vo "foot."]
46 (return)
[ mails] i.e. bags,
budgets.]
47 (return)
[ lance] So the 4to.—Here
the 8vo has "lanch;" but more than once in the SEC. PART of the play it
has "lance."]
48 (return)
[ this] So the 8vo.—The
4to "the."—Qy. "Where is this Scythian SHEPHERD Tamburlaine"?
Compare the next words of Theridamas.]
49 (return)
[ vaults] Here the 8vo has
"vauts,"—"which," says one of the modern editors, "was common in
Marlowe's time:" and so it was; but in the SEC. PART of this play, act ii.
sc. 4, the same 8vo gives,—
"As we descend into the infernal VAULTS."]
50 (return)
[ thy] So the 8vo.—The
4to "the."]
51 (return)
[ brave] See note | in
preceding column.[i.e. note 44.]]
52 (return)
[ renowmed] i.e. renowned.—So
the 8vo.—The 4to "renowned." —The form "RENOWMED" (Fr.
renomme) occurs repeatedly afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo.
It is occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's time. e.g.
"Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine."
Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's
MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607.]
53 (return)
[ cliffs] So the 8vo.—The
4to "cliftes."]
54 (return)
[ merchants] i.e.
merchant-men, ships of trade.]
55 (return)
[ stems] i.e. prows.]
56 (return)
[ vail] i.e. lower their
flags.]
57 (return)
[ Bootes] The 8vo "Botees."—The
4to "Boetes."]
58 (return)
[ competitor] i.e.
associate, partner (a sense in which the word is used by Shakespeare).]
59 (return)
[ To these] Old eds. "ARE
these."]
60 (return)
[ renowmed] See note ||, p.
11.[i.e. note 52.]—So the 8vo. —The 4to "renowned."]
61 (return)
[ statues] So the 4to.—"The
first edition reads 'statutes,' but, as the Scythians worshipped Pylades
and Orestes in temples, we have adopted the reading of the quarto as being
most probably the correct one." Ed. 1826.]
62 (return)
[ kings] So the 8vo.—The
4to "king."]
63 (return)
[ Nor thee nor them] The
modern editors silently print "Nor THEY nor THEIRS."]
64 (return)
[ will] So the 8vo.—Omitted
in the 4to.]
65 (return)
[ pitch] Is generally
equivalent to—stature. ("I would have you tell me what PITCH he was
of, Velim mihi dicas qua STATURA fuerit." Coles's DICT.) But here it means
the highest part of the body,—the shoulders (see the 10th sign. of
PITCH in Halliwell's DICT. OF ARCH. AND PROV. WORDS),—the "pearl"
being, of course, his head.]
66 (return)
[ and] So the 4to.—The
8vo "with."]
67 (return)
[ His arms and fingers long
and sinewy] So the 8vo, except that, by a misprint, it has "snowy" for
"sinewy."—The 4to gives the line thus,—
"His armes long, HIS fingers SNOWY-WHITE."!!
(and so the line used to stand in Lamb's SPEC. OF DRAM. POETS, till I made the necessary alteration in Mr. Moxon's recent ed. of that selection.)]
68 (return)
[ subdu'd] So the 8vo.—The
4to "subdue."]
69 (return)
[ Nature doth strive with
Fortune, &c.] Qy did Shakespeare recollect this passage when he wrote,—
"Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great"?
KING JOHN, act iii. sc. 1.]
70 (return)
[ port] i.e. gate.]
71 (return)
[ is] So the 8vo.—The
4to "in."]
72 (return)
[ In fair, &c.] Here
"fair" is to be considered as a dissyllable: compare, in the Fourth Act of
our author's JEW OF MALTA,
"I'll feast you, lodge you, give you FAIR words,
And, after that," &c.]
73 (return)
[ of] i.e. on.]
74 (return)
[ worse] So the 8vo.—The
4to "worst."]
75 (return)
[ the] So the 8vo.—The
4to "that."]
76 (return)
[ his] So the 8vo.—The
4to "the."]
77 (return)
[ be] So the 8vo.—The
4to "are."]
78 (return)
[ Beside] So the 8vo.—The
4to "Besides."]
79 (return)
[ champion] i.e.
champaign.]
80 (return)
[ greedy after] Old eds.
"after greedie."]
81 (return)
[ Sprung] Here, and in the
next speech, both the old eds. "Sprong": but in p. 18, l. 3, first col.,
the 4to has "sprung", and in the SEC. PART of the play, act iv. sc. 4,
they both give "SPRUNG from a tyrants loynes."
[Page 18, First Column, Line 3, This Play: "For he was never sprung[118: of human race,"]
82 (return)
[ teeth of] So the 8vo.—Omitted
in the 4to.]
83 (return)
[ lance] Here both the old
eds. "lanch": but see note ||, p. 11.(i.e. note 47.)]
84 (return)
[ the] So the 8vo.—0mitted
in the 4to.]
85 (return)
[ some] So the 4to.—The
8vo "scorne."]
86 (return)
[ will] So the 8vo.—The
4to "shall."]
87 (return)
[ top] i.e. rise above,
surpass.—Old eds. "stop."]
88 (return)
[ renowmed] See note ||, p.
11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "renowned."]
89 (return)
[ thirst] The 8vo "thrust":
the 4to "thrist."]
90 (return)
[ and] So the 4to.—The
8vo "not."]
91 (return)
[ the fair] So the 8vo.—The
4to "THEE faire."]
92 (return)
[ she] i.e. Nemesis.]
93 (return)
[ Rhamnus'] Old eds.
"Rhamnis."]
94 (return)
[ meeds] So the 8vo.—The
4to "deeds."]
95 (return)
[ into] Used here (as the
word was formerly often used) for UNTO.]
96 (return)
[ sure] A dissyllable here.
In the next line "assure" is a trisyllable.]
97 (return)
[ with his crown in his
hand] The old eds. add "offering to hide it;" but THAT he does presently
after.]
98 (return)
[ those were] i.e. those
who were, who have been.]
99 (return)
[ Stand staggering] So the
8vo.—The 4to "Stand THOSE staggering."]
100 (return)
[ For kings are clouts
that every man shoots at,
Our crown the pin, &c.
CLOUT means the white mark in the butts; PIN, the peg in the centre, which fastened it.]
101 (return)
[ me] So the 4to.—Omitted
in the 8vo.]
102 (return)
[ MYCETES. Ay, marry,
&c.] From this to "TAMBURLAINE. Well, I mean you shall have it again"
inclusive, the dialogue is prose: compare act iv. sc. 4, p. 29.]
103 (return)
[ renowmed man-at-arms]
See note ||, p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo.—The 4to "RENOWNED MEN
at armes."]
104 (return)
[ chiefest] So the 4to.—The
8vo "chiefe."]
105 (return)
[ happy] So the 8vo.—The
4to "happiest."]
106 (return)
[ aim'd] So the 4to.—The
8vo "and."]
107 (return)
[ it] So the 4to.—The
8vo "is."]
108 (return)
[ our] So the 4to.—Omitted
in the 8vo.]
109 (return)
[ we] So the 8vo.—The
4to "I."]
110 (return)
[ in earth] i.e. on
earth. So in the Lord's Prayer, "Thy will be done IN EARTH."]
111 (return)
[ Casane] Both the old
eds. here "Casanes."]
112 (return)
[ a-piece] So the 4to.—The
8vo "apace."]
113 (return)
[ purchase] i.e. booty,
gain.]
114 (return)
[ quite] i.e. requite.]
115 (return)
[ this] So
([[deiktikos]]) the 8vo.—The 4to "the."]
116 (return)
[ him] Old eds. "his."]
117 (return)
[ and] So the 8vo.—The
4to "with."]
118 (return)
[ sprung] See note ||, p.
14.[i.e. note 81.]]
119 (return)
[ dares] So the 8vo.—The
4to "dare."]
120 (return)
[ fate] Old eds.
"state."]
121 (return)
[ Resolve] Seems to mean—dissolve
(compare "our bodies turn to elements," p. 12, sec. col.): but I suspect
some corruption here.
Page 12, Second Column, This Play:
"TAMBURLAINE. . . . .
Until our bodies turn to elements,
And both our souls aspire celestial thrones.—"
etc.]]
122 (return)
[ Barbarous] Qy. "O
barbarous"? in the next line but one, "O treacherous"? and in the last
line of the speech, "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early
dramatists lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some of
these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing has been
omitted by the transcriber or printer.]
123 (return)
[ artier] i.e. artery.
This form occurs again in the SEC. PART of the present play: so too in a
copy of verses by Day;]
"Hid in the vaines and ARTIERS of the earthe."
SHAKESPEARE SOC. PAPERS, vol. i. 19.
The word indeed was variously written of old:
"The ARTER strynge is the conduyt of the lyfe spiryte."
Hormanni VULGARIA, sig. G iii. ed. 1530.
"Riche treasures serue for th'ARTERS of the war."
Lord Stirling's DARIUS, act ii. Sig. C 2. ed. 1604.
"Onelye the extrauagant ARTIRE of my arme is brused."
EVERIE WOMAN IN HER HUMOR, 1609, sig. D 4.
"And from the veines some bloud each ARTIRE draines."
Davies's MICROCOSMOS, 1611, p. 56.]
124 (return)
[ regiment] i.e. rule.]
125 (return)
[ fruit] So the 4to.—The
8vo "fruites."]
126 (return)
[ are] Old eds. "Is."]
127 (return)
[ talents] Was often used
by our early writers for TALONS, as many passages might be adduced to
shew. Hence the quibble in Shakespeare's LOVE'S LABOUR (K\.OST, act iv.
sc. 2., "If a TALENT be a claw," &c.)]
128 (return)
[ harpy] So the 8vo.—The
4to "Harper;" and with that reading the line is cited, in a note on
MACBETH, act iv. sc. 1, by Steevens, who also gives "tires UPON my life;"
but "TIRES" (a well-known term in falconry, and equivalent here to—preys)
is to be pronounced as a dissyllable. (In the 4to it in spelt "tyers."]
129 (return)
[ the] So the 4to.—The
8vo "thy."]
130 (return)
[ bassoes] i.e. bashaws.]
131 (return)
[ Christians renied] i.e.
Christians who have denied, or renounced their faith.—In THE GENT.
MAGAZINE for Jan. 1841, J. M. would read "Christians RENEGADENS" or
"CHRISTIAN RENEGADES:"
but the old text is right; among many passages that might be cited, compare the following;
"And that Ydole is the God of false Cristene, that han
RENEYED hire FEYTHE."
THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAILE OF SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILE,
p. 209. ed. 1725.
"For that thou should'st RENY THY FAITH, and her thereby
possesse.
The Soldan did capitulat in vaine: the more thy blesse."
Warner's ALBIONS ENGLAND, B. XI. Ch. 68. p. 287. ed. 1596.]
132 (return)
[ Terrene] i.e.
Mediterranean.]
133 (return)
[ Renowmed] See note ||,
p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "renowned."]
134 (return)
[ basso] So the 8vo.—The
4to "Brother."]
135 (return)
[ Not] So the 8vo.—The
4to "Nor."]
136 (return)
[ in] So the 8vo.—The
4to "on."]
137 (return)
[ Or spread, &c.] A
word has dropt out from this line.]
138 (return)
[ measur'd heaven] So the
8vo.—The 4to "measured THE heauen."]
139 (return)
[ pioners] The usual
spelling of the word in our early writers (in Shakespeare, for instance).]
140 (return)
[ ceaseless] So the 8vo.—The
4to "carelesse."]
141 (return)
[ conceits] i.e[.]
fancies, imaginations.]
142 (return)
[ counterfeit] i.e.
picture, resemblance.]
143 (return)
[ his] So the 8vo.—The
4to "the."]
144 (return)
[ you] So the 8vo.—The
4to "me."]
145 (return)
[ Leave] The author
probably wrote, "AGYDAS, leave," &c.]
146 (return)
[ facts] i.e. deeds.]
147 (return)
[ much] So the 8vo.—The
4to "more."]
148 (return)
[ Pierides] i.e. The
daughters of Pierus, who, having challenged the Muses to a trial of song,
were overcome, and changed into magpies.]
149 (return)
[ the young Arabian]
Scil. Alcidamus; see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col.
(Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,")]
150 (return)
[ Fearing his love] i.e.
Fearing with respect to his love.]
151 (return)
[ of] so the 4to.—The
8vo "and."]
152 (return)
[ fury] So the 4to.—The
8vo "furies."]
153 (return)
[ shone] Old eds.
"shine."]
154 (return)
[ send] Old eds. "sent."]
155 (return)
[ menace] So the 8vo.—The
4to "meane."]
156 (return)
[ fetch] So the 8vo.—The
4to "fetcht."]
157 (return)
[ set] So the 8vo.—The
4to "seate."]
158 (return)
[ Terrene] i.e.
Mediterranean.]
159 (return)
[ to rest or breathe] So
the 8vo.—The 4to "to BREATH AND REST."]
160 (return)
[ bastones] i.e.
bastinadoes.]
161 (return)
[ they] So the 8vo.—0mitted
in the 4to.]
162 (return)
[ Morocco] Here the old
eds. "Moroccus,"—a barbarism which I have not retained, because
previously, in the stage-direction at the commencement of this act, p. 19,
they agree in reading "Morocco."]
163 (return)
[ titles] So the 8vo.—The
4to "title."]
164 (return)
[ sarell] i.e. seraglio.]
165 (return)
[ I'll] So the 8vo.—The
4to "I will."]
166 (return)
[ the] So the 8vo.—The
4to "this."]
167 (return)
[ hugy] i.e. huge.]
168 (return)
[ renowm'd] See note ||,
p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "renowned."]
169 (return)
[ of] So the 8vo.—The
4to "all."]
170 (return)
[ rule] So the 8vo.—The
4to "raigne."]
171 (return)
[ braver] So the 8vo.—The
4to "braue."]
172 (return)
[ pash] i.e. crush to
pieces by a stroke.]
173 (return)
[ y-sprung] Here the old
eds. "ySPRONG."—See note ||, p. 14. i.e. note 81.]
174 (return)
[ them] Old eds. "thee."]
175 (return)
[ the] Has perhaps crept
in by a mistake of the transcriber or printer.]
176 (return)
[ And make your strokes
to wound the senseless light] The old eds. have,
"And make OUR strokes to wound the sencelesse LURE."
(the last word being, perhaps, in the 8vo "lute.") Here "light" is a very questionable reading: qy. "air"? (though the third line above ends with that word).)]
177 (return)
[ boss] In the GENT. MAG.
for Jan. 1841, J. M. proposed to alter "boss" to "Bassa." But Cotgrave, in
his DICT., has; "A fat BOSSE. Femme bien grasse et grosse; une coche."]
178 (return)
[ advocate] So the 4to.—The
8vo "aduocates."]
179 (return)
[ That dare, &c.]
Something dropt out from this line.]
180 (return)
[ Re-enter Bajazeth,
pursued by Tamburlaine] The old eds. have,
"Bajazeth flies, and he pursues him. The battell short (Qto. is short), and they enter, Bajazeth is ouercome."
This not very intelligible stage-direction means perhaps that, after Bajazeth and Tamburlaine had entered, a short combat was to take place between them.]
181 (return)
[ foil] The old eds.
"soil."]
182 (return)
[ gat] So the 8vo.—The
4to "got."]
183 (return)
[ pilling] i.e.
plundering.]
184 (return)
[ British] So the 4to.—The
8vo "brightest."]
185 (return)
[ martial] So the 8vo.—The
4to "materiall."]
186 (return)
[ Awake, ye men of
Memphis!] These words are put into the mouth of Judas, in Fletcher's
BONDUCA, at the commencement of act ii.; and in Fletcher's WIT WITHOUT
MONEY, act v. sc. 2. we find "thou man of Memphis."]
187 (return)
[ basilisks] Pieces of
ordnance so called. They were of immense size; see Douce's ILLUST. OF
SHAKESPEARE, i. 425.]
188 (return)
[ monstrous] To be read
as a trisyllable.]
189 (return)
[ Or ever-drizzling] So
the 4to.—The 8vo "Or drisling."]
190 (return)
[ should] So the 4to.—The
8vo "shal."]
191 (return)
[ he devil] So the 8vo.—The
4to "he THE deuill."]
192 (return)
[ Arabian king] Scil.
Alcidamus: see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col.
(Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,")]
193 (return)
[ it] So the 4to.—Omitted
in the 8vo.]
194 (return)
[ it should] So the 4to.—The
8vo "should it."]
195 (return)
[ this] So the 8vo.—The
4to "it."]
196 (return)
[ into] So the 4to.—The
8vo "vnto."]
197 (return)
[ heart] So the 4to.—The
8vo "soul."]
198 (return)
[ stoop] Qy. "stoop,
STOOP"?]
199 (return)
[ your] Old eds. "their."—Compare
the tenth line of the speech.]
200 (return)
[ to] So the 8vo.—The
4to "on."]
201 (return)
[ brent] i.e. burnt. So
the 8vo.—The 4to "burnt."]
202 (return)
[ kings] So the 8vo.—The
4to "king."]
203 (return)
[ from] So the 4to.—The
8vo "in."]
204 (return)
[ then, for you] So the
4to.—The 8vo "for you then."]
205 (return)
[ stark nak'd] Compare
(among many passages which might be cited from our early poets),—
"rather on Nilus' mud
Lay me STARK NAK'D, and let the water-flies
Blow me into abhorring!"
Shakespeare's ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, act v. sc. 2. (where
the modern editors print "naked.")]
206 (return)
[ dignities] So the 8vo.—The
4to "dignitie."]
207 (return)
[ whiles] So the 8vo.—The
4to "while."]
208 (return)
[ shalt] So the 4to.—The
8vo "shal."]
209 (return)
[ grace] Olds eds.
"grac'd."]
210 (return)
[ stature] So the 8vo.—The
4to "statue:" but again, in the SECOND PART of this play, act ii. sc. 4,
we have, according to the 8vo—
"And here will I set up her STATURE."
and, among many passages that might be cited from our early authors, compare the following;
"The STATURES huge, of Porphyrie and costlier matters made."
Warner's ALBIONS ENGLAND, p. 303. ed. 1596.
"By them shal Isis STATURE gently stand."
Chapman's BLIND BEGGER OF ALEXANDRIA, 1598, sig. A 3.
"Was not Anubis with his long nose of gold preferred before
Neptune, whose STATURE was but brasse?"
Lyly's MIDAS, sig. A 2. ed. 1592.]
211 (return)
[ bird] i.e. the ibis.]
212 (return)
[ are] Old eds. "is."]
213 (return)
[ country] Old eds.
"countries."]
214 (return)
[ King of Arabia] i.e.
Alcidamus; see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col.
(Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,")]
215 (return)
[ Calydonian] So the 8vo.—The
4to "Calcedonian."]
216 (return)
[ lusty] So the 8vo.—Omitted
in the 4to.]
217 (return)
[ and] So the 4to.—0mitted
in the 8vo.]
218 (return)
[ Renowmed] See note ||.
p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "Renow[ned."]]
219 (return)
[ Ibis' holy name] The
ibis has been already alluded to in the lines (p. 27, sec. col.),—
"The golden stature of their feather'd bird,
That spreads her wings upon the city-walls";
and it is well known to have been a sacred bird among the Egyptians (see Cicero DE NAT. DEORUM, I. 36). Compare the old play of THE TAMING OF A SHREW;
"Father, I SWEARE BY IBIS' GOLDEN BEAKE,
More faire and radiente is my bonie Kate
Then siluer Zanthus," &c.
p. 22. ed. Shakespeare Soc.
In the passage of our text the modern editors substitute "Isis'" for "Ibis'."]
220 (return)
[ the] So the 8vo.—The
4to "and."]
221 (return)
[ and] So the 8vo.—Omitted
in the 4to.]
222 (return)
[ thy baseness and] So
the 8vo.—The 4to "THE basnesse OF."]
223 (return)
[ mask] So the 8vo.—The
4to "walke."]
224 (return)
[ My lord, &c.]
Something has dropt out: qy. "TAMELY suffer"?]
225 (return)
[ a goodly refreshing for
them] So the 8vo.—The 4to "a GOOD refreshing TO them."]
226 (return)
[ Here] So the 8vo.—The
4to "there."]
227 (return)
[ it from] So the 8vo.—The
4to "it VP from."]
228 (return)
[ slice] So the 8vo.—The
4to "fleece."]
229 (return)
[ will fall] So the 8vo.—The
4to "will NOT fall."]
230 (return)
[ let] i.e. hinder.]
231 (return)
[ while] i.e. until.]
232 (return)
[ consort] i.e. band.]
233 (return)
[ pen] i.e. his sword.]
234 (return)
[ hastening] So the 4to.—The
8vo "hasting."]
235 (return)
[ 'specially] So the 8vo.—The
4to "especially."]
236 (return)
[ Morocco] Here and in
the next speech the old eds. have "Morocus" and "Moroccus:" but see note
||, p. 22.(i.e. note 162.)]
237 (return)
[ plage] i.e. region.—Old
eds. "place."]
238 (return)
[ valour] Old eds.
"value."]
239 (return)
[ again] So the 8vo.—Omitted
in the 4to.]
240 (return)
[ renowm'd] See note ||.
p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "renown'd."]
241 (return)
[ Damascus] Both the old
eds. here "Damasco:" but in many other places they agree in reading
"Damascus."]
242 (return)
[ remorse] i.e. pity.]
243 (return)
[ sakes] So the 8vo.—The
4to. "sake."]
244 (return)
[ blubber'd] That this
word formerly conveyed no ludicrous idea, appears from many passages of
our early writers.]
245 (return)
[ And use us like a
loving conqueror] "i.e. And that he will use us like, &c." Ed. 1826.]
246 (return)
[ care] So the 4to.—The
8vo "cares."]
247 (return)
[ helps] So the 8vo.—The
4to "help."]
248 (return)
[ or] So the 8vo.—The
4to "for."]
249 (return)
[ power] So the 8vo.—The
4to "powers."]
250 (return)
[ knew] So the 8vo.—The
4to "know."]
251 (return)
[ Reflexed] Old eds.
"Reflexing."]
252 (return)
[ their] Old eds.
"your."]
253 (return)
[ As] So the 8vo.—The
4to "And."]
254 (return)
[ tents] So the 8vo.—The
4to "tent."]
255 (return)
[ submission] Old eds.
"submissions."]
256 (return)
[ of ruth and] So the
8vo.—The 4to "AND ruth OF."]
257 (return)
[ conceit] i.e. fancy,
imagination.]
258 (return)
[ Hath] So the 4to.—The
8vo "Haue."]
259 (return)
[ nourish'd] So the 8vo.—The
4to "nourish."]
260 (return)
[ wish'd] So the 8vo.—The
4to "wish."]
261 (return)
[ imperious] So the 8vo.—The
4to "imprecious."]
262 (return)
[ passion] i.e. sorrow.]
263 (return)
[ resolved] i.e.
dissolved.]
264 (return)
[ Eyes, when that Ebena
steps to heaven, &c.] Either the transcriber or the printer has made
sad work with this passage; nor am I able to suggest any probable
emendation.]
265 (return)
[ fight] So the 8vo.—The
4to "fights."]
266 (return)
[ Persia's] Old eds.
"Perseans," and "Persians."]
267 (return)
[ still] i.e. distil.]
268 (return)
[ I thus conceiving, and
subduing both, That which hath stoop'd the chiefest of the gods, Even from
the fiery-spangled veil of heaven, To feel the lovely warmth of shepherds'
flames, And mask in cottages of strowed reeds, &c.
i.e. I thus feeling, and also subduing, the power of Beauty, which has drawn down the chiefest of the gods even from, &c.
The 8vo has,
"I thus conceiuing and subduing both.
That which hath STOPT the TEMPEST of the Gods,
Euen from the fiery spangled vaile of heauen,
To feele the louely warmth of shepheards flames,
And MARTCH in cottages of strowed WEEDS," &c.
The 4to has,
"I thus concieuing and subduing both,
That which hath STOPT the TEMPEST of the Gods,
Euen from the SPANGLED FIRIE vaile of heauen,
To feele the louely warmth of Shepheardes flames,
And MARCH in COATCHES of strowed WEEDES," &c.
The alterations which I have made in this corrupted passage are supported by the following lines of the play;
"See now, ye slaves, my children STOOP YOUR PRIDE (i.e. make
your pride to stoop),
And lead your bodies sheep-like to the sword."
Part Second,—act iv. sc. 1.
"The chiefest god, FIRST MOVER OF THAT SPHERE", &c.
Part First,—act iv. sc. 2.
"Jove SOMETIME masked IN A SHEPHERD'S WEED", &c.
Part First,—act i. sc. 2.
Perhaps in the third line of the present passage "fiery-spangled" should be "FIRE-YSPANGLED."]
269 (return)
[ Attend.] Old eds. "An."
(a misprint probably), which the modern editors understand as "Anippe"
(the waiting-maid of Zenocrate).]
270 (return)
[ March on us with] So
the 4to.—The 8vo "MARTCHT on WITH vs with."]
271 (return)
[ As if there were no way
but one with us] i.e. as if we were to lose our lives. This phrase, which
is common in our early writers, was not obsolete in Dryden's time: "for,
if he heard the malicious trumpeter proclaiming his name before his
betters, he knew THERE WAS BUT ONE WAY WITH HIM." Preface to ALL FOR
LOVE.]
272 (return)
[ pore] So the 8vo.—The
4to "dore."]
273 (return)
[ in] i.e. on.]
274 (return)
[ stay] Old eds. "aie"
and "aye."]
275 (return)
[ retorqued] i.e. bent
back in reflections on our former happiness. So the 8vo.—The 4to
"retortued."]
276 (return)
[ A] Old eds. "As."]
277 (return)
[ Elysium] Old eds.
"Elisian."]
278 (return)
[ thoughts] So the 8vo.—The
4to "thought."]
279 (return)
[ parbreak] i.e. vomit.]
280 (return)
[ abjection] Old eds.
"obiection."]
281 (return)
[ villainess] i.e.
servant, slave,]
282 (return)
[ ruth] So the 8vo.—The
4to "truth."]
283 (return)
[ resolve] i.e.
dissolve.]
284 (return)
[ bann'd] i.e. cursed.]
285 (return)
[ the] So the 4to.—The
8vo "thy."]
286 (return)
[ ever-living] So the
8vo.—The 4to. "euerlasting."]
287 (return)
[ give] So the 4to.—The
8vo "AND giue."]
288 (return)
[ her] Must mean
Zenocrate, whom Zabina fancies herself to be addressing.]
289 (return)
[ Let the soldiers be
buried.—Hell, death, Tamburlaine] So the 8vo.—Omitted in the
4to. (Where the modern editors got their reading, "Let the soldiers be
CURSED," I know not.)]
290 (return)
[ Make ready my coach]
Shakespeare seems to have remembered this passage when he made Ophelia
say, "Come, my coach," &c. HAMLET, act iv. sc. 5.]
291 (return)
[ I come, I come, I come]
So the 8vo.—The 4to "I come, I come."]
292 (return)
[ Egyptians'] So the 4to.—The
8vo "Egiptian.']
293 (return)
[ The] Old eds. "Thy."]
294 (return)
[ thy] So the 8vo.—The
4to "thine."]
295 (return)
[ war] So the 8vo.—The
4to "warres."]
296 (return)
[ Come] Old eds. "Comes"
and "Comep."]
297 (return)
[ Armed] So the 8vo.—The
4to "Armes."]
298 (return)
[ final] So the 4to.—The
8vo "small."]
299 (return)
[ King of Arabia] i.e.
Alcidamus; see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col.]
[Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,"]
300 (return)
[ thy] So the 4to.—The
8vo "my."]
301 (return)
[ conceit] i.e. fancy,
imagination.]
302 (return)
[ have] So the 8vo.—The
4to "hath."]
303 (return)
[ Euphrates] So our old
poets invariably, I believe, accentuate this word. [Note: 'Euphrates' was
printed with no accented characters at all.]
304 (return)
[ should] So the 8vo.—The
4to "shall."]
305 (return)
[ sweat] So the 8vo.—The
4to "sweare."]
306 (return)
[ wide-gaping] Old eds.
"wide GASPING."]
307 (return)
[ resolv'd] i.e.
dissolved.]
308 (return)
[ Millions] So the 8vo.—The
4to "Million."]
309 (return)
[ Elysium] Old eds.
"Elisian."]
310 (return)
[ Renowmed] See note ||,
p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo. —The 4to "Renowned."]
311 (return)
[ record] i.e. take to
witness.]
312 (return)
[ no further time] i.e.
no more distant time.]
313 (return)
[ the] So the 8vo.—The
4to "my."]
314 (return)
[ I not] So the 8vo.—The
4to "not I."]
315 (return)
[ Else] So the 4to.—The
8vo "Then."]
316 (return)
[ on] So the 4to.—Omitted
in the 8vo.]
317 (return)
[ as beseems] So the 4to.—The
8vo "as BEST beseemes."]
318 (return)
[ We will our rites,
&c.] Old eds. "We will our CELEBRATED rites," &c.—"The word
'CELEBRATED' occurs in both the old editions, but may well be dispensed
with as regards both the sense and measure." Ed. 1826. "I think this word
got into the text from either the author or printer, who was perhaps the
editor, doubting whether to use 'SOLEMNIZE' or 'CELEBRATE;' and it slipt
from the margin, where it was probably placed, into the verse itself." J.
M. in GENT. MAG. for Jan. 1841.]
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