Shakespeare's comedy of A midsummer-night's dream Volume 8
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...early eds. 13. Pert. Lively. Used by S. only here and in L. L. L. v. 2. 272. Cf. pertly=promptly, in Temp. iv. 1. 58: "appear, and pertly." 15. Companion. Often used contemptuously, as fellow is now. Cf. M. W. iii. 1. 123: "this same scall, scurvy, cogging companion;" J. C. iv. 3. 138: "Companion, hence!" 2 Hen. IV. ii. 4. 132: "scurvy companion," etc. Smollett uses it in the same sense in Roderick Random (1748): "Scurvy companion! saucy tarpaulin! Rude, impertinent fellow!" Dr. Grey (quoted by Halliwell without comment) says that S. calls the moon "the pale companion of the night" in T. C. of V. He was probably thinking of T. G. of V. iv. 2. 100: "by this pale queen of night." 16. I woo'd thee with my sword. See extracts from Chaucer and Plutarch above. 19. Triumph. "A public festivity or exhibition of any kind, particularly a tournament" (Schmidt). Cf. T. G. ofV. iv. 4. 161: "With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity;" Rich. II. v. 2. 52: "justs and triumphs" (see note in our ed. p. 212); 3 Hen. VI. v. 7. 43: "With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows," etc. Steevens quotes The Duke of Anfou's Enteriainement at Antwerp, 1581: "Yet notwithstanding, their triumphes those of the Romans have so borne the bell above all the rest, that the word triumphing, which cometh thereof, hath been applied to all high, great, and statelie dooings." 20. Duke. S. found the word in Chaucer and in North's Plutarch; and it is also used in the A. V. (1 Chron. i. 51) in the same sense of leader (Latin dux) or ruler. Steevens cites Lydgate's Fall of Princes, xii. 21: "Duke Theseus had the victorye;" and Skelton: "Not like Duke Hamilcar, Not like ...
Shakespeare's comedy of A midsummer-night's dream Volume 8 William Shakespeare
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...early eds. 13. Pert. Lively. Used by S. only here and in L. L. L. v. 2. 272. Cf. pertly=promptly, in Temp. iv. 1. 58: "appear, and pertly." 15. Companion. Often used contemptuously, as fellow is now. Cf. M. W. iii. 1. 123: "this same scall, scurvy, cogging companion;" J. C. iv. 3. 138: "Companion, hence!" 2 Hen. IV. ii. 4. 132: "scurvy companion," etc. Smollett uses it in the same sense in Roderick Random (1748): "Scurvy companion! saucy tarpaulin! Rude, impertinent fellow!" Dr. Grey (quoted by Halliwell without comment) says that S. calls the moon "the pale companion of the night" in T. C. of V. He was probably thinking of T. G. of V. iv. 2. 100: "by this pale queen of night." 16. I woo'd thee with my sword. See extracts from Chaucer and Plutarch above. 19. Triumph. "A public festivity or exhibition of any kind, particularly a tournament" (Schmidt). Cf. T. G. ofV. iv. 4. 161: "With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity;" Rich. II. v. 2. 52: "justs and triumphs" (see note in our ed. p. 212); 3 Hen. VI. v. 7. 43: "With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows," etc. Steevens quotes The Duke of Anfou's Enteriainement at Antwerp, 1581: "Yet notwithstanding, their triumphes those of the Romans have so borne the bell above all the rest, that the word triumphing, which cometh thereof, hath been applied to all high, great, and statelie dooings." 20. Duke. S. found the word in Chaucer and in North's Plutarch; and it is also used in the A. V. (1 Chron. i. 51) in the same sense of leader (Latin dux) or ruler. Steevens cites Lydgate's Fall of Princes, xii. 21: "Duke Theseus had the victorye;" and Skelton: "Not like Duke Hamilcar, Not like ...