Tragedy of Timon of Athens Author:William Shakespeare General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: Harper Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select f... more »rom more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ACT I. Scene I. -- In the folios this is headed " Actus Primus. Sccena Pri- ma;" but there is no other indication of act or scene throughout the play. All the critics agree that this scene is nearly all Shakespeare's, and there could not well be any question about it. I. / am glad. Fleay would add " to see," to fill out the measure. 3. // wears, sir, as it grows. That is, it wears away, or is wasted, as it grows older ; a half-sportive expression. Crosby thinks it may mean " the world keeps on its usual course, or, as we say, ' holds its own,' as it grows older." 5. Record. S. accents the noun on either syllable, according to the measure. Gr. 490. 6. Spirits. Monosyllabic ( =sf rites) ; as very often. 7. Conjur'd. The accent in S. is independent of the meaning. Cf. M. N. D. p. 164. 8. TA' other's. The folio has " th' others." Some editors print " t' other's." 10. BreatKd. " Inured by constant practice ; so trained as not to be wearied. To breathe a horse is to exercise him for the course " (Johnson). Cf. Ham. p. 272, note on Breathing time. II. Continuate. Continual. Cf. Oik. iii. 4. 178: "continuate time;" where the 1st quarto has "convenient." Steevens quotes Chapman, Odyss. iv. : "a continuate yell ;" and Id. x. : " one continuate rock." 12. He passes. "That is, exceeds, goes beyond common bounds" (Steevens). Cf. M. W. p. 136. Fleay would read "passes praise." 15. Touch the estimate. " Come up to the price " (Johnson). 16. [Reciting to himself]. There is no stage - direction in the folio. H. and some other editors insert "[Reading from his poem]" but 20 seems ...« less