The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 9J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... STEEVENS . To pheeze a man , is to beat him ; to give him a pheeze , is , to give him a knock . In The Chances , Antonio says of Don John , " I felt him in my small guts ; I am sure he has fear'd me . " M. MASON . To touze or toase had ...
... STEEVENS . To pheeze a man , is to beat him ; to give him a pheeze , is , to give him a knock . In The Chances , Antonio says of Don John , " I felt him in my small guts ; I am sure he has fear'd me . " M. MASON . To touze or toase had ...
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... STEEVENS . -you have burst ? ] To burst and to break were anciently synonymous . Falstaff says , that " John of Gaunt burst Shallow's head for crouding in among the marshal's men . " Again , in Soliman and Perseda : " 2 shin . " your ...
... STEEVENS . -you have burst ? ] To burst and to break were anciently synonymous . Falstaff says , that " John of Gaunt burst Shallow's head for crouding in among the marshal's men . " Again , in Soliman and Perseda : " 2 shin . " your ...
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... STEEVENS . I believe the true reading is - Go by , says Jeronimo , and that the s was the beginning of the word says , which , by mistake , the printers did not complete . The quotation from the old play proves that it is Jeronimo ...
... STEEVENS . I believe the true reading is - Go by , says Jeronimo , and that the s was the beginning of the word says , which , by mistake , the printers did not complete . The quotation from the old play proves that it is Jeronimo ...
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... STEEVENS . It seems from the commentary of Ulitius upon Gratius , from Caius de Canibus Britannicis , from bracco , in Spelman's Glossary , and from Markham's Country Contentments , that brache originally meant a bitch . Ulitius , p ...
... STEEVENS . It seems from the commentary of Ulitius upon Gratius , from Caius de Canibus Britannicis , from bracco , in Spelman's Glossary , and from Markham's Country Contentments , that brache originally meant a bitch . Ulitius , p ...
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... STEEVENS . to accept our duty . ] It was in those times the custom of players to travel in companies , and offer their service at great houses . JOHNSON . In the fifth Earl of Northumberland's Household Book , ( with a copy of which I ...
... STEEVENS . to accept our duty . ] It was in those times the custom of players to travel in companies , and offer their service at great houses . JOHNSON . In the fifth Earl of Northumberland's Household Book , ( with a copy of which I ...
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