Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Samuel Johnson
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common sense, or the faculty by which right is distinguished from wrong.
III.i.159 (368,3) that integrity which should become it] _Integrity_ is in this place _soundness_, uniformity, consistency, in the same sense as Dr. Warburton often uses it, when he mentions the _integrity_ of a metaphor. To _become_, is to _suit_, to _befit_. III.i.221 (370,5) are very poisonous] I read, _are very_ poisons. III.i.242 (371,7) One time will owe another] I know not whether to _owe_ in this place means to _possess by right_, or to _be indebted_. Either sense may be admitted. _One time_, in which the people are seditious, will _give us power_ in some other time; or, _this time_ of the people's predominance will _run them in debt_; that is, will lay them open to the law, and expose them hereafter to more servile subjection. III.i.248 (372,8) Before the tag return] The lowest and most despicable of the populace are still denominated by those a little above them, _Tag, rag, and bobtail_. (1773) III.ii.7 (376,4) I muse] That is, _I wonder. I am at a loss_. III.ii.12 (376,5) my ordinance] My _rank_. III.ii.51 (378,8) Why force you] Why _urge_ you. III.ii.56 (378,9) bastards, and syllables/Of no allowance, to your bosom's truth] I read, _Of no_ alliance,-- |
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