Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Samuel Johnson
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II.iii.122 (352) this woolvish gown] Signifies this _rough hirsute_ gown. II.iii.182 (355,1) ignorant to see't?] [W: "ignorant" means "impotent"] That _ignorant_ at any time has, otherwise than consequentially, the same meaning with _impotent_, I do not know. It has no such meaning in this place. _Were you_ ignorant _to see it_, is, did you want knowledge to discern it. II.iii.208 (356,2) free contempt] That is, with contempt open and unrestrained. II.iii.227 (357,4) Enforce his pride] Object his pride, and enforce the objection. II.iii.258 (358,7) Scaling his present bearing with his past] That is, _weighing_ his past and present behaviour. II.iii.267 (359,8) observe and answer/The vantage of his anger] Mark, catch, and improve the opportunity, which his hasty anger will afford us. III.i.23 (360,9) prank them in authority] _Plume, deck, dignify_ themselves. III.i.58 (362,3) This paltring/Becomes not Rome] That is, this trick of dissimulation, this shuffling. _Let these be no more believ'd |
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