ISRAEL GOLLANCZ'S NOTES

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CYMBELINE

I. i. 3. does the king; Tyrwhitt's conjecture. The Folio reads "do's the Kings; " Hanmer, " do the king's." [See Dyce's Note.]

I. i. 133. A year's age. This reading seems weak; one expects some stronger expression. Warburton (adopted by Theobald) reads "A yare [speedy] age; " Nicholson, "thou heap'st more than Thy years' age." [Becket conjectures " A sear age." See Glossary.]

I. iii. 9. make me with this eye or ear. The Folio has "his" for "this." [Hanmer reads "mark me with his eye, or I." Coleridge conjectures "make me with the eye or ear;" and Grant White, " make me with or eye or

I. iv. 18, 19. are wonderfully to. Warburton conjectures "aids wonderfully to;" Capell, "are wonderful to;" Eccles, "and wonderfully do."

I. iv. 108. herein too; so the third Folio. The first has "heerein to;" Grant White," herein-to." Vaughan conjectures "herein, so."

L iv. 129. afraid.

Becket conjectures "affied;

Jackson, "affianc'd;" Ingleby, "her friend." [See Glos sary; and see Dyce's Note.]

I. v. 33. I do not like her, etc. this soliloquy as "inartificial, himself what himself knows." rescue by asserting that it is perfectly suitable to "a reflective man, a student, one accustomed to ponder upon his experiments, and to render himself an account of the effects they will produce."]

I. v. 68. chance thou changest on. [See Dyce's Note.] I. vi. 24. trust Boswell's reading. Rann reads "truest" with a comma after it. Thirlby conjectures "trusty" without any punctuation mark. [See Glossary; and see Dyce's Note.]

I. vi. 35. Upon the number'd beach. [Becket conjectures "Unnumber'd, on the beach."] Warburton reads "... the humbl'd beach; " Farmer conjectures "... . the umber'd beach;" Jackson, ". . . the member'd beach." [Staunton, ". the cumber'd beach;" and Gould, the pebbled beach." See Glossary, under NUMBER'D BEACH; and see Dyce's Note.]

I. vi. 44. desire vomit emptiness. Johnson explains these difficult words thus: "Desire," says he, "when it approached sluttery, and considered it in comparison with such neat excellence, would not only be not so allured to feed, but, seized with a fit of loathing, would vomit emptiness, would feel the convulsions of disgust, though, being unfed, it had no object." Pope reads "desire vomit ev'n emptiness;" Capell and Hudson (the latter, in his "Students' Edition," 1881), "desire vomit to emptiness." [See Glossary.]

I. vi. 108. unlustrous. Ingleby reads "ill-lustrous." [See Dyce's Note.]

II. ii. 49. bare the raven's eye; Theobald's conjecture, adopted by Steevens. [See Glossary; and see Dyce's Note.]

II. iii. 25. With every thing that pretty is. Hanmer reads (for the sake of the rhyme) "With all the things that pretty bin;" Warburton, "With everything that pretty bin."

II. iii. 47. soliciting; the reading of Collier (2d ed.). [See Glossary; and see Dyce's Note.]

II. iii. 87. You lay out too much pains, etc. [Mrs. Jameson says: "Cloten is odious; but we must not overlook the peculiar fitness and propriety of his character, in connection with that of Imogen. He is precisely the kind of man who would be most intolerable to such a woman. He is a fool: so is Slender and Sir Andrew Aguecheek; but the folly of Cloten is not only ridiculous, but hateful. It arises not so much from a want of understanding as a total want of heart; it is the perversion of sentiment, rather than the deficiency of intellect. He has occasional gleams of sense, but never a touch of feeling.... No other fool but Cloten a compound of the booby and the villain - could excite in such a mind as Imogen's the same mixture of terror, contempt, and abhorrence. The stupid, obstinate malignity of Cloten, and the wicked machinations of the queen justify whatever might need excuse in the conduct of Imogen, as her concealed marriage and her flight from her father's court, and serve to call out several of the most beautiful and striking parts of her character."]

II. iii. 101. Fools are not mad folks. Warburton conjectures (adopted by Theobald) "Fools cure not mad folks."

III. i. 52. We do. These words are part of Cym

beline's speech in the Folio; the Collier Ms. assigns them to Cloten, and the arrangement has been generally adopted. [See Dyce's Note.]

III. iii. 23. bauble. [Many substitutes for this word have been offered, among which are "pape," by Becket; "baubee," by Chalmers; "barb," by Jackson; "brave," by Singer; "robe," by Bulloch; "badge," by Brae; "page," by Gould. See Glossary; and see Dyce's Note.]

III. iii. 34. prison for; Pope's emendation of the Folio, which has "Prison, or." Vaughan conjectures "prison of." [See Dyce's Note.]

III. iii. 83. I' the cave wherein they bow; Warburton's reading. The Folio has "I' th' Cave, whereon the Bowe;" Rowe, "I' th' cave, where on the bow; " Pope, "Here in the cave, wherein; " Theobald, "I' th' cave, there, on the brow;" Hanmer, "I' th' cave here on this brow; Johnson, "I' th' cave, where in the bow" [which he explains thus: " They are trained up in the cave, where their thoughts in hitting the bow, or arch of their habitation, hit the roofs of palaces"!].

III. iv. 38. False to his bed. [On this outbreak of indignation from Imogen, Mrs. Jameson remarks: " In her first exclamations we trace, besides astonishment and anguish, and the acute sense of the injustice inflicted on her, a flash of indignant spirit, which we do not find in Desdemona or Hermione. lowed by that affecting lamentation over the falsehood and injustice of her husband, in which she betrays no atom of jealousy or wounded self-love, but observes in the extremity of her anguish, that, after his lapse from truth, all good seeming would be discredited; and she then resigns herself to his will, with the most entire submission."]