Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...greatest are mis thought, For things that others do.'--Ant. 6 Cleo., V, ii, 178.--Ed. 283. Varrus Walker (Crit., ii, 323), among other examples wherein the letter r, both in proper names and in some other words, is doubled, cites the present passage, and says: 'Varrus...--vulg. Varro, --is, if this form be the right one, Varus; of course, not the Varus. I rather think, however, that Varro is the true reading.'--See Text. Notes. 287. raise Schmidt (Lex., s. v. 4.): To rouse, to stir up, to awake, to make to rise. 290. watch your pleasure That is, stay awake during your pleasure, or as long as you so will it. (Compare l. 280, and note.) 293, 294. Looke Lucius... the pocket of my Gowne Hudson (Life, etc., i, 235): What the man is, and where he ought to be, is all signified in these two lines. And do we not taste a dash of benignant irony in the implied repugnance between the spirit of the man and the stuff of his present undertaking? The idea of a bookworm riding the whirlwind of war! The thing is most like Brutus; but how out of his element, how unsphered from his right place, it shows him! There is a touch of drollery in the contrast which the richest steeping of poetry does not disguise. I fancy the Poet to have been in a bland, intellectual smile as he wrote Luc. I was fure your Lordfhip did i not giue it me. 295 Bru. Beare with me good Boy, I am much forgetfull. Canft thou hold vp thy heauie eyes a-while, And touch thy Inftrument a ftraine or two. Luc. I my Lord, an't pleafe you. Bru. It does my Boy: 300 I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing. Luc. It is my duty Sir. Brut. I mould not vrge thy duty part thy might, I know yong bloods looke for a time of reft. Luc. I haue flept my Lord already. 305 Bru% It was well done, and thou..