This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...the procurer and setter forth of all this mischief, sir Richard Vernon, with divers other. The earl of Worcester, the baron of Kinderton and sir Richard Vernon, knights, were condemned and beheaded." ACT I. Scene I.--I. The action of the play begins with the news of Hotspur's defeat of the Scots under ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...the procurer and setter forth of all this mischief, sir Richard Vernon, with divers other. The earl of Worcester, the baron of Kinderton and sir Richard Vernon, knights, were condemned and beheaded." ACT I. Scene I.--I. The action of the play begins with the news of Hotspur's defeat of the Scots under Archibald, Earl of Douglas, at Holmedon (or Halidown-hill) on Holyrood Day, the 141)1 of September, 1402; and it closes with the defeat and death of Hotspur at Shrewsbury on the Eve of St. Mary Magdalen, the 2ist of July, 1403. For wan the Coll. MS. has "worn." 2. Find we, etc. " That is, let us suffer peace to rest awhile without disturbance, that she may recover breath to propose new wars " (Johnson). 4. Strands. The early eds. have "stronds," an old spelling which is sometimes found where the rhyme shows that the pronunciation was strand; as in T. of S.. I. 175, where the folio reads " That made great loue to humble him to her hand, When with his knees he kist the Cretan strond." 5. No more, etc. A passage which has given the critics much trouble, as the three pages of comments in the Var. of 1821 may show. For entrance the 4th folio has " entrails." Steevens conjectured " entrants," but afterwards adopted Mason's suggestion of "Erinnys." Coleridge endorsed Theobald's explanation of thirsty entrance as referring to the dry penetrability of the soil, and added thai " the obscurity of the passage is of the Shakespearian sort." As Malone remarks, the poet probably Hen. VI. ii. 3. 15: " Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk;" and Rich. III. iv. 4. 30: had Gen. iv. 11 in mind. Cf. 3 Hen. " Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth, Unlawfully made drunk with innocent blood." 14. Well-beseeming. " Well-seeming " (M.for M. iii. I. 232...
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