ii s. ix. MAY 16, i9u.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 16 1 19U.
CONTENTS. No. 229.
JTOTES : ' King Lear ' : Rearrangements of the Text, 381 Webster : a Question of Authorship, 382 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 384 A Bonner Ordi- nation in Elizabeth's Reign Lander's ' Imaginary Conversations': "Salomon" "Nuts to" a Person " Three blue beans," 386 Early Words for the 'N.E.D.' Nos. 413, 414, Strand Legal Definition of a Lawful Kiss, 387.
QUERIES : Robert Plumpton : Isabel Anderton Edward Hubbald of the Tower" Speak to me, Lord Byron," 388 Old Etonians T. Britton Joseph Branwell Sir John Sackfylde C. P. Colley : L. Crosley : R. Crymble: R. Gem : R. W. Knight : I. G. Ogden : J. B. Perryn R. ,E. S. Shaw : J. Shawford G. Quenton Loch Chesney Biographical Information Wanted W. Quipp, 389 " Vossioner " R. Ridley Heraldic J. Fessard : T. Gardiner : E. Harman : T. Hawkins : R. James, 390 " W. J." : Morfit : Milbourne " Waters " and Lieut Warneford-Benjamin Zobell-Kill Family, 391.
REPLIES : Lesceline de Verdon, 391 " Bushel and Strike," 392 Gothaven, 393 Mrs. Behn's ' Emperor of the Moon ' Shakespeare and the Warwickshire Dialect, 394 Bird Name: 'Emigration of Birds' A Charter of Richer de 1'Aigle " Corvicer," an Old Trade Register of Deaths of Roman Catholics Old Etonians, 395 " Blizard " as a Surname Authors of Quotations Wanted " Kibob "Registers of Hawkhurst, Kent, 396 General Beatson English Shrines Sir Jacob Adolphus-Major- General Miller Wildgoose, 397 Heart- Burial " Bore " The Roll of the Baronets Webster and the ' N.E.D.,' 398.
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Notices to Correspondents.
'KING LEAR':
REARRANGEMENTS OF THE TEXT.
THE references in the following notes are as in ' The Cambridge Shakespeare.'
Li. 51-4:
That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril, Our eldest-born, speak first.
Gon. Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter ....
The following arrangement seems prefer- able :
That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge it. Goneril, our eldest-born, speak first.
Gon. [Dear] Sir,
I love you more than words can wield the matter ....
The Quartos read : " Where merit doth most challenge it." There seems to be no clear reason for following the Folio in leav- ing out " it," if the meaning is : " Where nature accompanied by merit challenges it,"
i.e., our largest bounty. " Do " was intro-
duced before " love " by Capell. The
Quartos read " words," the Folio " word."
For the introduction of " Dear " before
" Sir," see I. i. 161.
I. i. 162-4 :
Kent. Do ;
Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease.
The Quartos read " Doe," which the Folio omits. It seems to have been ar- ranged in a separate line first by Steevens (ed. 1793), but without adequate reason. The scansion is excellent in
Kent. Do ; kill | thy physi | cian and | the
fee | bestow.
The Quartos read " the fee " ; the Folio " thy fee."
I. iv. 273-7 :
Alb. My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant Of what hath moved you.
Lear. It may be so, my lord.
Hear, nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful.
Malone's arrangement of 11. 2747 in three lines is in every respect preferable to the above :
Lear. It may be so, my lord. Hear, nature.
hear ;
Dear goddess, hear ! suspend thy purpose if Thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful.
It is surely better to treat 1. 274, "Of what hath moved you," as a short line standing by itself at the end of a speech, than to print 275 as a short line. Of course the words " It may be so, my lord," con- stitute an example of the very numerous cases of what Abbott, * Gram.,' 513, calls the " amphibious section.'
I. iv. 324 :
'Tis politic and safe to let him keep At point a hundred knights, yes, that on ever} dream ....
Surely we ought to arrange :
'Tis poli | tic and safe | to let him keep at point-
A hundred knights, &c.
Pope, more suo, omitted " at point."
II. ii. 164. See ante, p. 245.
II. iv. 91-3 :
How unremoveable and fix'd he is In his own | course.
Lear. Ven | geance ! | plague ! death ! |
confusion !
There seems no good reason for treating 11. 92-3 as two lines ; and likewise for not reading with the Quartos " death, plague."
