Dro. E. No, none by me. Ant. S. This purse of ducats I received from you, Abb. Renowned Duke, vouchsafe to take the pains And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes: The Duke, my husband, and my children both, 388. "These ERRORS are arose," so the Folios; are has been variously changed by scholars into all, rare, but no change is necessary; as far as rhythm is concerned the Folio reading is certainly preferable.— I. G. 400. "Thirty-three years"; this reading of the Folios has been changed to twenty-five by most editors, following Theobald, who calculates the age of the twins by putting together what Ægeon says in Act I. i. 125 and in line 320 of Act V. Capell suggested twenty-three, from Act. I. i. line 125 and line 133. On the other hand, the Duke states in line 326 of the present Act that he has been patron to Antipholus for "twenty years"; it looks as though Shakespeare changed his idea as to the age of the twins towards the end of the play, without troubling to make all his references fit in with one another.-I. G. And you the calendars of their nativity, Duke. With all my heart, I'll gossip at this feast. [Exeunt all but Ant. S., Ant. E., Dro. S., and Dro. E. Dro. S. Master, shall I fetch your stuff from ship board? Ant. E. Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd? Dro. S. Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur. 410 Ant. S. He speaks to me. I am your master, Dromio: Come, go with us; we 'll look to that anon: Embrace thy brother there; rejoice with him. [Exeunt Ant. S. and Ant. E. Dro. S. There is a fat friend at your master's house, That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner: Dro. E. Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth. 404. "And you the calendars of their nativity"; i. e., the two Dromios; cp. "Here comes the almanac of my true date," I. ii. 41.— I. G. 406. "After so long grief, such nativity"; the laboring line harmonizes well with the emotion of the speaker; the line is evidently intended to be read as follows: "After | so long | grief, süch | natív | ity." There seems no reason for changing nativity, though Hammer's conjecture felicity has been accepted by most editors; Johnson proposed festivity.-I. G. Will you walk in to see their gossiping? Dro. S. Not I, sir; you are my elder. 420 Dro. E. That's a question: how shall we try it? Dro. S. We'll draw cuts for the senior: till then lead thou first. Dro. E. Nay, then, thus: We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another. [Exeunt. GLOSSARY By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A. ADVISED, well informed of, delib erate concerning; V. i. 214. ALBEIT, although; V. i. 217. AMAIN, with might and main; I. i. 93. ANATOMY, skeleton; V. i. 238. ANGELS; an angel was an English coin, worth about ten shillings; IV. iii. 43. APPARENTLY, obviously; IV. i. 78. other; V. i. 170. BACK-FRIEND, an adversary; perhaps applied quibblingly to the sergeant, "because he comes from behind to arrest one"; IV. ii. 37. BALLAST, ballasted, loaded; III. ii. 143. BAND, bond (used equivocally); IV. ii. 49. BEADS, rosary; II. ii. 190. BEAR, carry off; V. i. 8. BECOME, render becoming; III. ii. 11. BELIKE, 'tis likely; IV. i. 25. BESTOW, employ, make use of; IV. i. 16. BESTOWED, Stowed, deposited; I. ii. 78. BESTRID; "b. thee," i. e. "defended thee when fallen"; V. i. 192. BOARD, table; III. ii. 18. BOUGHT AND SOLD, deluded and overreached by foul practices; III. i. 72. By; "send me by some token"; a not uncommon Elizabethan idiom, meaning "give me some token whereby I may show that you have sent me"; IV. i. 56. CARACKS, galleons, large ships of CASE; "an action upon the case is a general action given for the redress of a wrong done any man without force, and not especially provided for by law"; IV. ii. 42. CATES, dainties; III. i. 28. CHARGED, gave in charge; III. i. 8. CHARGEFUL, expensive; IV. i. 29. CHILDREN (trisyllabic); V. i. 360. CHOLERIC; the choleric man was advised "to abstain from all salt, scorched, dry meats, from mustard, and such like things as might aggravate his malignant humors"; II. ii. 63. CIRCUMSTANCE, detail; V. i. 16. CLAIM; "my heaven's claim,” i. e. "all that I claim from heaven hereafter"; III. ii. 64. CLEAN, entirely; I. i. 134. COIL, ado; III. i. 48. COLDLY, Coolly; V. i. 272. COMMON; "make a c. of," i. e. "use as a play-ground"; II. ii. 29. COMPACT OF, wholly composed of; III. ii. 22. COMPANION (used contemptuously), fellow; IV. iv. 64. CONCEIT, Conception; III. ii. 34; apprehension; IV. ii. 65. CONFISCATE, Confiscated; I. i. 21. CONFOUNDS, destroys; I. ii. 38. CONFUSION, ruin; II. ii. 182. CONSORT, to keep company with; I. ii. 28. COUNTERMANDS, stops one going CUSTOMERS (used contemptuous ly), visitors, guests; IV. iv. 63. CUTS; papers cut of unequal lengths, of which the longest was usually the prize; hence, "to draw cuts"="to draw lots"; V. i. 422. DANKISH, dampish; V. i. 247. DEADLY, deathly; IV. iv. 96. DEATH; "the death," i. e. "death by judicial sentence"; I. i. 147. DEBTED, indebted; IV. i. 31. DECIPHERS, distinguishes; V. i. 334. DECLINE, incline; III. ii. 44. DECLINING, inclining; III. ii. 140. DEFEATURES, disfigurements; II. i. 98; V. i. 299. DEFORMED, deforming; V. i. 298. DEMEAN, conduct; IV. iii. 83. DENIED (followed by a tautological negative); IV. ii. 7. DESPITE OF; "in d. of mirth,” i. e. "though I feel despiteful towards mirth"; III. i. 108. DETAIN, withhold; II. i. 107. DILATE, narrate; I. i. 123. DISANNUL, annul; I. i. 145. DISCHARGED, paid; IV. i. 32. DISPENSE WITH, put up with; II. i. 103. DISPOSE, disposal; I. i. 21. DISPOSED, disposed of; I. ii. 73. DISTAIN'D, sullied, disgraced; II. ii. 148. DISTEMPERATURES, distempers; V. i. 82. DISTRACT, distracted; IV. iii. 42. DIVINER, Sorceress; III. ii. 146. DOWSABEL, a poetic name, used occasionally in Elizabethan writers generically for a beautiful lass (douce et belle); Ironically applied by Dromio of Syracuse to the wench whose real name is Nell; IV. i. 110. DRAWS DRY-FOOT, traces the scent of the game; "perhaps so called because, according to sportsmen, in water the scent is lost"; IV. ii. 39. DRY, hard, severe; II. ii. 64. DURANCE; V. "everlasting garment"; IV. iii. 28. EARNEST, used quibblingly with reference to the sense of "earnest-money"; II. ii. 24. ECSTASY, frenzy, madness; IV. iv. 54. |