182. List, used transitively, as in Hamlet, i. 3. 30:
"If with too credent ear you list his songs.'

The reading of the folios, which is intelligible
That with the paine,' &c., in which case we
That' from our' in the previous line. See

186. That we ... die. enough. The quartos have must supply the antecedent to above, lines 2, 52.

190. rings, called 'cases,' iv. 6. 122.

Compare Pericles, iii. 2.99: 'Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels,

Which Pericles hath lost.'

195. success. See note on i. 2. 127.

197. flaw'd, shattered. See ii. 4. 281.
202. as, as if. See iii. 4. 15.
205-222. This would.

slave. Omitted in the folios.

205. Hearing of this. See ii. 1. 39.

Ib. a period, a termination of the narrative.

206. but another. Malone takes this in opposition to 'such as love not sorrow,' as if it were 'but another, less sensitive, would make,' &c. But Steevens is right in referring it to what Edgar has yet to tell as the climax of his story. He understands' but' in the usual adversative sense. It seems better to take it as qualifying another,' as if he said one more such circumstance only, by amplifying what is already too much, would add to it and so exceed what seemed to be the limit of sorrow.' For this gerundial use of the infinitive see iii. 5. 8, and Abbott, § 356.

208. top. See i. 2. 16.

209. big in clamour, loud in my exclamations of grief.

210. my worst estate. For 'estate' compare Luke i. 48: 'For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden.'

214. As. See above, line 202.

Ib. threw him. Theobald's correction for 'threw me' of the quartos. 215. the most piteous tale of Lear and him. Compare Richard II, v.

I. 44:

'Tell thou the lamentable tale of me.'

And Henry V, ii. 4. 64:

The native mightiness and fate of him.'

217. grew puissant, grew powerful, and mastered him. So in Henry V, i. 2. 116:

'Awake remembrance of these valiant dead

And let your puissant arm renew their feats.'

Ib. the strings of life, the heart-strings; as in Richard III, iv. 4. 365: Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break.'

218. tranced, entranced. Compare slave' for enslave,' 'bold' for ' embolden.'

232. judgement. The quartos read 'iustice.'

235. manners, used as a singular, as in Romeo and Juliet, v. 3. 214: 'What manners is in this?'

242. after, afterwards. See The Tempest, ii. 2. 10.

246. Be brief in it, be quick about it: generally used of a narrative and not of an action. Compare Richard III, ii. 2. 43:

'If you will live, lament; if die, be brief,

That our swift-winged souls may catch the king's.'

251. take my sword. One of the quartos reads 'take my sword the captaine, Give it,' &c., which is adopted by Jennens.

256. fordid, destroyed. Compare Hamlet, v. 1. 244 (209 Clar. Press ed.) : 'The corse they follow did with desperate hand

Fordo it own life.'

264. Is this the promised end? 265. or image of that horror.

that is, of the world.
Compare Macbeth, ii. 3. 83:
'Up, up, and see

The great doom's image!'

266. feather. Compare 2 Henry IV, iv. 5. 32:

'By his gates of breath

There lies a downy feather which stirs not.'

270. murderers. The quartos have 'murderous' or 'murdrous.'

275. a-hanging. See Abbott, § 24.

277. falchion, properly a curved sword, a sciinetar.

་

In the

The spelling in the folios is faulchion'; in the quartos fauchon' and 'fauchion.' Authorized Version of Judith xiii. 6, it is spelt fauchin.' 283. This is. To be read as one 285, 286. He's a good fellow

syllable.

...

See note on iv. 6. 158.

. . . He'll strike, &c. Theobald altered this to 'Twas a good fellow .. He'd strike,' &c. But Lear's mind is again off its balance, 'He knows not what he says.' 291. Nor no man. See iv. 7. 68. 292. fordone. See above, line 256.

302. boot, advantage, amends; from A. S. bót. Richard II, i. 3. 174. See also above, iv. 6. 202.

The verb is used in

306. my poor fool, Cordelia; not the Fool, as Sir Joshua Reynolds thought. For this phrase of affectionate familiarity compare Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv. 4. 98:

Alas, poor fool, why do I pity him

That with his very heart despiseth me.'

And Much Ado about Nothing, ii. 1. 326: 'I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on the windy side of care.'

323. The later folios add the stage direction Dies.'

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