The works of Shakespeare Volume 20

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. 1906 Excerpt: ...perst mine eye, her speach mine wofull hart." Ellis (Early English Cost. Marry, master schoolmaster, he that is likest to a hogshead. 80 Hoi. Of piercing a hogshead! a good lustre of conceit in a turf of earth; fire enough for a flint, pearl enough for a swine: 'tis pretty; it is well. Jaq. Good master parson, be so good as read me this letter: it was given me by Costard, and sent me from Don 85 Armado: I beseech you, read it. Hoi. Fauste, precor gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra 81. Hoi. Nath. Qq, Ff. Of piercing Ofpersing Qq, Ff.... omne Ff2, 3,4; Facile precor gellida quando pecas omnia Q 1, 87. Fauste F 1. Pronunciation) says " Pierce, the family name, is pronounced Perse in America." This is to be noted in connection with Nashe's tract, Pierce Peniless. 78. one See Quarto reading at 1. i. 165. Commonly pronounced on or un provincially. In Gabriel Harvey's early letters "one" is constantly written "on" (Grosart, i. 112, etc.). It seems to have been an affectation of Harvey's: "on of my standinge" (pp. H4-17),etc. 81. Of piercing a hogshead Cambridge edd. suggest that "Of," which commences this line in the old edition, was part of the stage-direction, " Holof.," which crept into the text. They make a similar guess at "O" (from "Ber0.") at i11. i. 164, etc. But how can this apply when the old editions misprint "Nath." for "Holof."? I disbelieve in the parallel suggestion learned, as Fauste precor gelida) to see for other reasons. The "of" is pos-w /,/«« «"»« sibly placed here to enforce an allusion poems, who flourished towards the latter end of the fifteenth century. He died in 1516. A translation by George Tur...