Antony & Cleopatra

15, 17.

Courser's hair referring to the belief that a horse's hair steeped long in corrupted water becomes a living

worm.

19, 7. — Garboils: confused contentions, turmoils.

19, 9. Sacred vials: the tiny lachrymatory vials which the Romans sometimes put into the funeral urns of kinsfolk and friends.

21,

9. Laurel'd victory: better, laurel victory, which more

over was the language of Shakespeare's time.

23, 1.

Mature in knowledge: apparently a slip, as the sense seems to require the word immature; or, perhaps the Poet meant that, boys old enough to know their duty pawn,

etc.

23,

19. Ear and wound: plough and wound.

27, 8. Burgonet: a close-fitting helmet, first used by the Burgundians, but unknown to Cleopatra and to Antony. 28, 10. Arm-girt steed a much-disputed phrase; the Folios have arm-gaunt, implying a horse gaunt with the continued weight of armour. Many substituted words, as termagant and arrogant, have been proposed, but, whatever epithet was used, Malone thinks it was intended as descriptive of a beautiful horse.

32, 15. — Wan'd lip: a much disputed phrase; in old editions it is written wand and apparently stands for wan.

Space for further travel: a time in which a longer journey might have been made.

37, 17.

You have not to make it with the interpolation of not is unmetrical: probably written, << you n' have ».

Your considerate stone: an elliptical phrase depending on the expression of the voice, equivalent to « hence

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forth I am as silent as a stone ». Probably a forgotten proverb like, « silent as a stone ».

41, 17. Would be tales: probably, would be half tales »>, to complete the metre and also agree with the next line, << where now half tales be truths >>.

43, II.

sister.

45, 18.

My sister's view: equivalent to, view of my

Tended her i' th' eyes: watched the smallest indication given by Cleopatra: discovered her will by her eyes. 45, 19. -- Made their bends adornings: in paying their obeisances to Cleopatra the humble bendings of their bodies were so graceful that they added to their beauty.

45, 22. 46, 13.

Yarely readily, dexterously.
Cropp'd: was fruitful.

47, 4. Riggish rigg is an ancient word meaning a strumpet.

Thither here written for hither.

My motion: my active part, my mind.

Quails: the Romans fought quails, like cocks,

pitting them within a hoop.

50, 7. 3.

51,

The Mount: that is, Mount Misenum.

Billiards an anachronism; billiards were unknown for a thousand years after the time of Cleopatra.

57, 11.

But some read « not »; and others write the line« that art not what thou'rt sore of ». The line is very disputed, and is probably a broken sentence, reading thus:

are you sure that he is married to Octavia?

59, 22. Fear us affright us.

62, 13.

North's Plutarch 1579 reads in margin : «< Cleopatra trussed up in a mattresse and so brought to [Julius] Cæsar, upon Apollodorus backe. »>

66, 15. Plants: here used for soles of the feet, from the

Latin.

67, 10.

67, 17.

plenty.

68, 12.

Partisan a heavy kind of halberd.

Foison for foizon, a french word signifying

Pyramises in use in Shakespeare's time for pyramids moreover Lepidus was nearly intoxicated and his tongue began to « split what it speaks ».

It own organs: would now be written, its own

It own colour: it, would now be written, its.
Inclips: embraces.

Reels increase the world's giddy course.

Strike the vessels as we now say, chink glasses,

or, break a bottle.

73, 11. song.

The holding the chorus, or, the burden of the

77, 4.

78, 10.

ACT III

Pacorus was the son of Orodes, king of Parthia. Him we serve: doubtless, him we serve, is what Shakespeare wrote, but modern editors read more grammatically when he we serve's away ».

80, 6. Thou Arabian bird: the phoenix.

80, 14.

Shards the scaly wing-cases of beetles: see, in

<< Macbeth », the « shard-borne beetle ».

81, 4. Band: band, and bond, in Shakespeare's time were synonymous.

82, 11. Cloud in 's face a black spot on a horse's forehead is regarded as a great blemish, it being supposed to indicate an ill-temper.

85, 5: 90, 5.

issue?

90, 7. 92, 11.

Me: a slip for « I ».

What is the success: what follows? or, what is the

Rivality equal rank.

Queasy fastidious, disgusted.

94, 6.

Ostentation: a slip in metre for « ostent »,

frequently used by Shakespeare.

96, 5. Trull here used as synonymous to harlot.

96, 11. forbid.

a word

Forspoke spoken against compounded like

97, 4. Merely entirely, absolutely lost.

98, 18.

102, 9.

Yare: dextrous, manageable.

Antoniad: Plutarch says this was the name of

Cleopatra's ship.

103, 4. 103, 8.

rid nag », 103, 12. 103, 16.

wind.

109, 2.

error.

109, 5.

Cantle fragment, or rather, corner.

Ribaldred: ribaudred in Folios: probably « ribaldthat is strumpet.

Breese: gad-fly.

Loof'd to loof is to bring a ship close to the

Within superfluous, and apparently inserted in

Schoolmaster Euphronius was schoolmaster to

Cleopatra's children by Antony.

109, 13. His grand sea his, would now-a-days be supplied by its.

110, 19. Offers the sentence is transposed, and means

« add more offers from thine invention ».

Mered question the question being limited to him used as a participial adjective formed from mere, or,

9. Your Cæsar's father: Julius Cæsar was not the father, but the great uncle of Octavius (Augustus) whom he adopted.

Muss scramble; but more likely an allusion to a boy's game so called. The game is mentioned by Rabelais. 117, 10. Hand of she a slip for « her ».

Was Cleopatra: since she ceased to be Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra.

118, 3.
118, 21.

119, 4.

120, I.

The hill of Basan: from Psalm LXVIII, 15. Yare: nimble, adroit.

Enfranched: abbreviated form of enfranchised. 120, 9. -Ties his points: acts as his body servant: the points tied the doublet to the hose; but not in Rome.

120, 17.

Discandying: thawing.

121, 18. Gaudy: festive: gaudy is still an epithet bestowed on certain festival days at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

123, 4.

ACT IV

Ways to die Shakespeare was misled by the ambiguity of the old translation of Plutarch, « Cæsar answered, that he [Antony] had many other ways to die, than so ».

Woo't thou wilt thou.

125, 5.
126, 16. Yield

127, 1. —

Ho, ho, ho! ho is an interjection commanding. to desist or leave off.

130, 2.

132, 4.

130, 7. False, false; this, this: this is the piece you ought to have given me, and not that of which you asked the use. Well said well done: see « As you like it », act II, sc. vi, l. 14., and « Hamlet », act. I, sc. v, 1. 162. 134, 10. Three-nook'd world: Europe, Asia, and Africa, the then whole known world.

136, 5. Blows

136, 15.

137, 2.

138, 2.

138, 8.

138, 15. 139, 15.

139, 21.

140, 2.