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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. 1888
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare Merchant of Venice 1888 Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: To part fo (lightly with your wiues firft gift, 186 A thing flucke on with oathes vpon your finger, And fo riueted with faith vnto your flefh. I gaue my... more » Loue a Ring, and made him fweare Neuer to part with it, and heere he ftands : 190 I dare be fworne for him, he would not leaue it, Nor plucke it from his finger, for the wealth That the world mafters. Now in faith Gratiano, You giue your wife too vnkinde a caufe of greefe, And 'twere to me I fhould be mad at it. 195 Bajf. Why I were beft to cut my left hand off, And fweare I loft the Ring defending it. 1 Gre. My Lord Baffanio gaue his Ring away Vnto the ludge that beg'd it, and indeede Deferu'd it too : and then the Boy his Clearke 2OO That tooke fome paines in writing, he begg'd mine, 188. fo riueted] riveted Popc + , Steev. 196. [Aside. Theob. et seq. "85, Dyce iii. riveted so Cap. Steev. "93, 198. Gre.] Fz. Var. Sta. so rivetud Ktly. 200. too to Qq. 195. And) An Theob. et seq. bethan authors, that it seems to require more explanation than a simple confusion between to and too. Perhaps ' blame' was considered an adjective, and too may have been, as in Early English, used for excessively. [Even in a modernized text it is doubtful if this ' too' should not be retained.—Ed.] 188. so riueted] This line is cited by Abbott, §472, as one of the examples, of which we have had many, of the absorption of ' -ed following d or /,' and it is thus scanned by him: ' And s6 | riveted wilh faith | unto | your flesh.' Dyce (ed. iiij: The 'so' in this line was evidently repeated by mistake from the 'so'just above it, in the preceding line but one. [Wherefore Dyce returned, as he so often does in his last Edition, to the reading of Pope. To me, as good a way as either Dyce's or Abbott's, is t...« less