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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. 1912 Excerpt: ...prose. m. ii. 26. 1 Sen. Capell's reading. The folios, Sen. m. ii. 29. a heart as little apt. White's note ran as follows: This may mean a heart as little open to impression, as undocile. So in this play, IV. iii. 21-5, 'For the nobles receive so to heart the banishment of that worthy, Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take all power from the people, ' &c.; and in Othello, II. iii. 325-8--' She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so bless'd a disposition, that she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested;' and Timon of Athens, I. i. 131-2, 'Does she love him? she is young and apt.' But the chief difficulty in this speech is the last clause. Let 'apt' mean what it may, to what does Volumniacompare her use of anger 'To better vantage'? Not improbably, in my judgment, a line has been lost; in which case that which is found in Collier's folio of 1632 is either the original or a most ingenious fabrication. In that volume the passage stands, --'I have a heart as little apt as yours To brook control without the use of anger, But yet a brain that leads my use of anger To better vantage.' This restores appositeness to the third of these lines, while the occurrence of the words 'use of anger' at the end of two lines (and the recurrence is very natural) would be very likely to cause the omission of one of them. HI. ii. 82. herd. Theobald's emendation. The folios, heart. III. ii. 38. For them? The punctuation of the last two folios. The first two have a comma, which is inexact. III. ii. 47-8. The parentheses before which and after policy in White's text have been changed to commas. HI. ii. 52-6. Because that... syllables. Malone's arrangement. The folios end the lines, Because, that... people: ... matter... words... Ton...

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