Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Samuel Johnson
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_From where he should begin_ t'an _end_.-- II.i.247 (338,3) As he is proud to do't] [I should rather think the author wrote _prone_: because the common reading is scarce sense or English. WARBURTON.] _Proud to do_, is the same as, _proud of doing_, very plain sense, and very common English. II.i.285 (340,4) carry with us ears and eyes] That is, let us observe what passes, but keep our hearts fixed on our design of crushing Coriolanus. II.ii.19 (340,5) he wav'd indifferently] That is, _he would wave indifferently_. II.ii.29 (341,6) supple and courteous to the people; bonnetted] The sense, I think, requires that we should read, _unbonnetted_. Who have risen only by _pulling off their hats_ to the people. _Bonnetted_ may relate to _people_, but not without harshness. II.ii.57 (342,7) Your loving motion toward the common body] Your kind interposition with the common people. II.ii.64 (342,9) That's off, that's off] That is, that is nothing to the purpose. II.ii.82 (343,1) how can he flatter] The reasoning of Menenius is this: How can he be expected to practice flattery to others, who abhors it so much, that he cannot bear it even when offered to himself. |
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