142, 3. 143, 3. Go we up there is a hiatus here in the text: the words proposed correspond with the text of North's Plu tarch. 144, 10. Triple turn'd: Cleopatra was first the mistress of Julius Cæsar, then of Cneius Pompey, and afterwards of Antony. 145, 2. Crownet: coronet. 145, 12. Doits the smallest coins; half farthings. 145, 18. Teach me, Alcides: Hercules, from whom Antony claimed descent, and who threw into the sea his servant Lichas, who brought him the poisoned shirt of Nessus from Dejanira. 146, 4. Than Telamon: Ajax who went mad about the armour of Achilles. 146, 5. — Emboss'd: blown, and foaming at the mouth. 147, 12. Knave: servant. Thy continent: the thing that contains thee. Pleach'd: intertwined, folded. 158, 2. Housewife Fortune: pronounced hussif: a hussy, wanton see similar use of « housewife » in « Henry IV », Henry V » and « Othello ». part 11, « 159, 6. Remarkable: a word, in Shakespeare's time, of very grave import: conspicuous. 159, 13. - Chares: task-work. 161, 2. 166, 3. 169, 2. - ACT V Frustrate frustrated. Fortune's knave: the servant of fortune. If idle talk: « if it will be necessary now, for once to waste a moment in idle talk of my purpose, I will not sleep neither. » Probably a line is lost after necessary, e. g. « I'll not so much as syllable a word ». 169, 13. Pyramides not pyramises (as at page 68). 171, 11. Plates: pieces of silver money. 173, 6. Project: proctor, or, shape, my cause. Envy malice, spite. Modern friends: commonplace, unimportant, Forbear, Seleucus: retire, Seleucus. Boy my greatness: the parts of women stage were acted by boys. 178, 18. 179, 3.. on the Absurd intents: possibly an error for «< assur❜d ». ( Sirrah Iras sirrah was a familiar address applied to women as well as to men. 180, 2. 182, 2. 182, 12. Dost fall? as Cleopatra says « farewell »> to Iras she applies an asp to her attendant; hence afterwards her murder of Iras, strikes her as cowardly, and she exclaims « This proves me base ». etc. 182, 23. Intrinsicate: intricate, or, tightly drawn. 183, I. Ass unpolicied ass without more policy than, 186, 7. Pursu'd conclusions: tried experiments. |