Shakespeare Restored by Theobald Lewis;

Author:Theobald, Lewis;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

----------- I fetch Life and Being

From Men of royal Siege; and my Demerits

May speak, and bonnetted, to as proud a Fortune,

As This that I have reach'd.

i. e. may speak with the Hat on, without shewing any Degrees of Deference, or Inequality to: Which small Alteration restores us the plain Sense of the Poet.

XC. Act 5. Scene 1. Page 450.

Correction, from Various Reading

For here lies the point, if I drown my self wittingly, it argues an act; and an act hath three branches. It is AN ACT TO DO. and TO PERFORM, argal, &c.

Very notably made out! If an Act has Three Branches, as the honest Clown here defines it to have, it would puzzle a good Arithmetician to find them out from this Reading. 'Tis true, the Folio Editions exhibit it thu; and so, indeed, does the Duodecimo Edition publish'd by Mr. Tonson in 1714. But, surely, to do, and to perform, can be but two Branches; and if we admit This for the true Reading, then we ought to correal the Passage: And an Act hath Two Branches; it is an Act to do, and to perform. But the Quarto Edition of 1637, I believe, will instruct Us to read the Place exactly as the Poet intended it.

For here lies the Point, if I drown my self wittingly, it argues an Act; and an Act hath three Branches; it is, --- to ACT, to DO, and to PERFORM, --- argal, &c.

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