Tamburlaine the Great Volume I Part 21

"Jove SOMETIME masked IN A SHEPHERD'S WEED", &c.

Part First,--act i. sc. 2.

Perhaps in the third line of the present pa.s.sage "fiery-spangled"

should be "FIRE-YSPANGLED."]

[Footnote 269: Attend.] Old eds. "An." (a misprint probably), which the modern editors understand as "Anippe" (the waiting-maid of Zenocrate).]

[Footnote 270: March on us with] So the 4to.--The 8vo "MARTCHT on WITH vs with."]

[Footnote 271: As if there were no way but one with us] i.e. as if we were to lose our lives. This phrase, which is common in our early writers, was not obsolete in Dryden's time: "for, if he heard the malicious trumpeter proclaiming his name before his betters, he knew THERE WAS BUT ONE WAY WITH HIM." Preface to ALL FOR LOVE.]

[Footnote 272: pore] So the 8vo.--The 4to "dore."]

[Footnote 273: in] i.e. on.]

[Footnote 274: stay] Old eds. "aie" and "aye."]

[Footnote 275: retorqued] i.e. bent back in reflections on our former happiness. So the 8vo.--The 4to "retortued."]

[Footnote 276: A] Old eds. "As."]

[Footnote 277: Elysium] Old eds. "Elisian."]

[Footnote 278: thoughts] So the 8vo.--The 4to "thought."]

[Footnote 279: parbreak] i.e. vomit.]

[Footnote 280: abjection] Old eds. "obiection."]

[Footnote 281: villainess] i.e. servant, slave,]

[Footnote 282: ruth] So the 8vo.--The 4to "truth."]

[Footnote 283: resolve] i.e. dissolve.]

[Footnote 284: bann'd] i.e. cursed.]

[Footnote 285: the] So the 4to.--The 8vo "thy."]

[Footnote 286: ever-living] So the 8vo.--The 4to. "euerlasting."]

[Footnote 287: give] So the 4to.--The 8vo "AND giue."]

[Footnote 288: her] Must mean Zenocrate, whom Zabina fancies herself to be addressing.]

[Footnote 289: Let the soldiers be buried.--h.e.l.l, death, Tamburlaine]

So the 8vo.--Omitted in the 4to. (Where the modern editors got their reading, "Let the soldiers be CURSED," I know not.)]

[Footnote 290: Make ready my coach] Shakespeare seems to have remembered this pa.s.sage when he made Ophelia say, "Come, my coach," &c.

HAMLET, act iv. sc. 5.]

[Footnote 291: I come, I come, I come] So the 8vo.--The 4to "I come, I come."]

[Footnote 292: Egyptians'] So the 4to.--The 8vo "Egiptian.']

[Footnote 293: The] Old eds. "Thy."]

[Footnote 294: thy] So the 8vo.--The 4to "thine."]

[Footnote 295: war] So the 8vo.--The 4to "warres."]

[Footnote 296: Come] Old eds. "Comes" and "Comep."]

[Footnote 297: Armed] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Armes."]

[Footnote 298: final] So the 4to.--The 8vo "small."]

[Footnote 299: King of Arabia] i.e. Alcidamus; see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col.]

[Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,"]

[Footnote 300: thy] So the 4to.--The 8vo "my."]

[Footnote 301: conceit] i.e. fancy, imagination.]

[Footnote 302: have] So the 8vo.--The 4to "hath."]

[Footnote 303: Euphrates] So our old poets invariably, I believe, accentuate this word. [Note: 'Euphrates' was printed with no accented characters at all.]

[Footnote 304: should] So the 8vo.--The 4to "shall."]

[Footnote 305: sweat] So the 8vo.--The 4to "sweare."]

[Footnote 306: wide-gaping] Old eds. "wide GASPING."]

[Footnote 307: resolv'd] i.e. dissolved.]

[Footnote 308: Millions] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Million."]

[Footnote 309: Elysium] Old eds. "Elisian."]

[Footnote 310: Renowmed] See note , p. 11.[i.e. note 52.] So the 8vo.

--The 4to "Renowned."]

[Footnote 311: record] i.e. take to witness.]

[Footnote 312: no further time] i.e. no more distant time.]

[Footnote 313: the] So the 8vo.--The 4to "my."]