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Page cxxiv
Enter Roseilli disguised as a Fool . " It was a bold undertaking of our poet's - to paint a counterfeit fool after Shakspeare's admirable character of Edgar in King Lear . " The reader , who knows that Edgar counterfeits a madman ...
Enter Roseilli disguised as a Fool . " It was a bold undertaking of our poet's - to paint a counterfeit fool after Shakspeare's admirable character of Edgar in King Lear . " The reader , who knows that Edgar counterfeits a madman ...
Page cxxxvii
You fool your piety Ridiculously . Ridiculously , indeed ; but this is the editor's doing , not the poet's : the stop should be placed after piety . It comes too slow . sufferance . Sufferance is here improperly used for suffering .
You fool your piety Ridiculously . Ridiculously , indeed ; but this is the editor's doing , not the poet's : the stop should be placed after piety . It comes too slow . sufferance . Sufferance is here improperly used for suffering .
Page cxli
Prick - eared " means with ears erect , " - thank you , Mr. Weber- " and the application of the term to a fool " ( what fool ? where is he ? ) " is explained by the following passage in Painter- There were newly come to the citie two ...
Prick - eared " means with ears erect , " - thank you , Mr. Weber- " and the application of the term to a fool " ( what fool ? where is he ? ) " is explained by the following passage in Painter- There were newly come to the citie two ...
Page cxlii
As Mr. Weber proceeds in his explanation , he forgets what he set out with , and , with the assistance of Steevens , ends by proving the fool to be a pickpocket ! G. 145. W. 129. - A copper bason . Read : A copper - bason'd suds ...
As Mr. Weber proceeds in his explanation , he forgets what he set out with , and , with the assistance of Steevens , ends by proving the fool to be a pickpocket ! G. 145. W. 129. - A copper bason . Read : A copper - bason'd suds ...
Page cliv
Fools , persons easily cheated . " Just the reverse : knaves , persons that cheat every one . Mr. Weber had Massinger before him , ( as had Ford when he wrote this passage , ) and there he might have found a full explanation of the word ...
Fools , persons easily cheated . " Just the reverse : knaves , persons that cheat every one . Mr. Weber had Massinger before him , ( as had Ford when he wrote this passage , ) and there he might have found a full explanation of the word ...
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