Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Part 33

_Spenser._ Farmer quotes in a note from the _Faerie Queene_, iv. iii. 43.

_Greek expressions._ Upton, p. 321.

176. "_Lye in a water-bearer's house_," _Every Man in his Humour_, Act i., Sc. 3.

176. _Daniel the Historian_, _i.e._ Samuel Daniel the poet (1562-1619), whose _Collection of the Historie of England_ appeared in 1612 and 1617.

Cf. p. 190.

_Kuster._ See note on p. 108. "Aristophanis Comoediae undecim. Gr. and Lat. Amst. 1710. Fol., p. 596" (Farmer).

_unyoke_ (_Hamlet_, v. 1. 59). See Upton, pp. 321, 322.

_Orphan heirs_ (_Merry Wives_, v. 5. 43), _id._, p. 322. "Dr. Warburton corrects _orphan_ to _ouphen_; and not without plausibility, as the word _ouphes_ occurs both before and afterward. But I fancy, in acquiescence to the vulgar doctrine, the address in this line is to a part of the _Troop_, as Mortals by birth, but adopted by the Fairies: _Orphans_ with respect to their _real_ Parents, but now only dependant on _Destiny_ herself. A few lines from Spenser will sufficiently ill.u.s.trate the pa.s.sage" (Farmer).

Farmer then quotes from the _Faerie Queene_, 111. iii. 26.

177. _Heath._ "_Revisal_, pp. 75, 323, and 561" (Farmer).

_Upton._ His edition of the _Faerie Queene_ appeared in 1758.

_William Lilly_ (1602-1681), astrologer. "_History of his Life and Times_, p. 102, preserved by his dupe, Mr. Ashmole" (Farmer). _Elias Ashmole_ (1617-1692), who bequeathed his museum and library to the University of Oxford.

_Truepenny._ Upton, p. 26.

178. _a legendary ballad._ The reference is to _King Lear_. But the ballad to _King Leire and his Three Daughters_ is of later date than the play.

This error in Percy's _Reliques_ was for long repeated by editors and critics.

_The Palace of Pleasure_, "beautified, adorned, and well furnished with pleasaunt Histories and excellent Nouelles, selected out of diuers good and commendable authors by William Painter, Clarke of the Ordinaunce and Armarie," appeared in two volumes in 1566-67; reprinted by Haslewood in 1813 and by Mr. Joseph Jacobs in 1890.

_English Plutarch._ See above.

_Jacke Drum's Entertainment: or, the Comedie of Pasquill and Katherine_, 4to, London, 1601; reprinted 1616 and 1618.

178. _We are sent to Cinthio_, in Mrs. Lennox's _Shakespear Ill.u.s.trated_, 1753, vol. i., pp. 21-37.

_Heptameron of Whetstone._ "Lond., 4to, 1582. She _reports_, in the fourth dayes exercise, the rare Historie of _Promos and Ca.s.sandra_. A marginal note informs us that Whetstone was the author of the _Commedie_ on that subject; which likewise might have fallen into the hands of Shakespeare"

(Farmer).

_Genevra of Turberville._ " 'The tale is a pretie comicall matter, and hath bin written in English verse some few years past, learnedly and with good grace, by M. George Turberuil.' Harrington's _Ariosto_, Fol. 1591, p.

39" (Farmer).

_c.o.ke's Tale of Gamelyn._ Cf. Johnson's Preface, p. 133.

_Love's Labour Wonne._ "See Meres's _Wits Treasury_, 1598, p. 282"

(Farmer). Cf. the allusion to it in Tyrwhitt's _Observations and Conjectures_, 1766, p. 16. _Love's Labour Wonne_ has been identified also with the _Taming of the Shrew_, _Much Ado_, _Midsummer Night's Dream_, the _Tempest_, and _Love's Labour's Lost_.

_Boccace._ "Our ancient poets are under greater obligation to Boccace than is generally imagined. Who would suspect that Chaucer hath borrowed from an Italian the facetious tale of the _Miller of Trumpington_?" etc.

(Farmer).

_Painter's Giletta of Narbon._ "In the first vol. of the _Palace of Pleasure_, 4to, 1566" (Farmer).

_Langbaine._ _Account of the English Dramatick Poets_, 1691, p. 462.

_Appolynus._ "_Confessio Amantis_, printed by T. Berthelet, Fol. 1532, p.

175, etc." (Farmer). See G. C. Macaulay's edition of Gower, Oxford, 1901, iii. 396 (Bk. VIII., ll. 375, etc.).

_Pericles._ On Farmer's suggestion, Malone included _Pericles_ in his edition of Shakespeare, and it has appeared in all subsequent editions except Keightley's. See _Cambridge Shakespeare_, vol. ix., p. ix.

_Aulus Gellius_, _Noct. Attic._ iii. 3. 6.

179. _Ben. Jonson._ "Ode on the _New Inn_," stanza 3.

_The Yorks.h.i.+re Tragedy._ " 'William Caluerley, of Caluerley in Yorks.h.i.+re, Esquire, murdered two of his owne children in his owne house, then stabde his wife into the body with full intent to haue killed her, and then instantlie with like fury went from his house to haue slaine his yongest childe at nurse, but was preuented. Hee was prest to death in Yorke the 5 of August, 1604.' _Edm. Howes' Continuation of John Stowe's Summarie_, 8vo, 1607, p. 574. The story appeared before in a 4to pamphlet, 1605. It is omitted in the Folio chronicle, 1631" (Farmer).

_the strictures of Scriblerus._ "These, however, he a.s.sures Mr. Hill, were the property of Dr. Arbuthnot" (Farmer). See Pope's _Works_, ed. Elwin & Courthope, x., p. 53.

_This late example._ _Double Falshood_, ii. 4. 6-8.

_You have an aspect. Id._, iv. 1. 46.

_a preceding elision._ "Thus a line in Hamlet's description of the Player should be printed as in the old Folios:

"Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,"

agreeably to the accent in a hundred other places" (Farmer).

_This very accent_, etc. This pa.s.sage, down to the end of the quotation from Thomson (top of p. 183), was added in the second edition.

_Bentley._ Preface to his edition of _Paradise Lost_, 1732.

180. _Manwaring_, Edward. See his treatise _Of Harmony and Numbers in Latin and English Prose, and in English Poetry_ (1744), p. 49.

_Green._ May this "extraordinary gentleman" be George Smith Green, the Oxford watchmaker, author of a prose rendering of Milton's _Paradise Lost_, 1745; or Edward Burnaby Greene, author of _Poetical Essays_, 1772, and of translations from the cla.s.sics? There is no copy of the "Specimen of a new Version of the _Paradise Lost_ into blank verse" in the Library of the British Museum, nor in any public collection which the present editor has consulted.

_Dee_, John (1527-1608), astrologer.

_Strike up, my masters. Double Falshood_, Act i., Sc. 3.

181. _Victor_, Benjamin (died 1778), was made Poet Laureate of Ireland in 1755. He produced in 1761, in two volumes, the _History of the Theatres of London and Dublin, from the year 1730 to the present time._ A third volume brought the history of the theatre down to 1771. Farmer refers to vol.

ii., p. 107: "_Double Falshood_, a Tragedy, by Mr. _Theobald_, said by him to be written by _Shakespear_, which no one credited; and on Enquiry, the following Contradiction appeared; the Story of the _Double Falshood_ is taken from the _Spanish_ of _Cervantes_, who printed it in the year after _Shakespear_ died. This Play was performed twelve Nights."

_Langbaine informs us._ _English Dramatick Poets_, p. 475.

_Andromana._ "This play hath the letters J.S. in the t.i.tle page, and was printed in the year 1660, but who was its author I have not been able to learn," Dodsley, _Collection of Old Plays_, 1744, vol. xi. p. 172. In the second edition (ed. Isaac Reed, 1780) the concluding words are replaced by a reference to the prologue written in 1671, which says that "'Twas s.h.i.+rley's muse that labour'd for its birth." But there appears to be no further evidence that the play was by s.h.i.+rley.

_Hume._ See the account of Shakespeare in his _History_, reign of James I., _ad fin._, 1754: "He died in 1617, aged 53 years." The date of his death, but not his age, was corrected in the edition of 1770.

_MacFlecknoe_, line 102.