Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Samuel Johnson
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perhaps is this:--_My suspicions cannot injure you, if you be virtuous,
by supposing that a traitor may put on your virtuous appearance. I do not say that your virtuous appearance_. _proves you a traitor; for virtue must wear its proper form, though that form be often counterfeited by villany_. IV.iii.26 (502,6) Why in that rawness left you wife and children] Without previous provision, without due preparation, without _maturity_ of counsel. IV.iii.33 (502,7) Wear thou thy wrongs] That is, _Poor country, wear thou thy wrongs_. IV.iii.69 (503,1) Sudden, malicious] [_Sudden_, for capricious. WARBUR.] Rather violent, passionate, hasty. IV.iii.85 (504,2) Than summer seeming lust] When I was younger and bolder I corrected it thus, _Than fume, or seething lust_. that is, Than angry passion, or boiling lust. (1773) IV.iii.135 (506,4) All ready at a point] [W: at appoint] There is no need of change. IV.iii.136 (506,5) and the chance of goodness/Be like our warranted quarrel!] The _chance of goodness_, as it is commonly read, conveys no sense. If there be not some more important errour in the passage, it |
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