Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Samuel Johnson
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III.iii.29 (384,5) which looks/With us to break his neck] To _look_ is to _wait_ or _expect_. The sense I believe is, _What he has in his heart_ is waiting there _to help us to break his neck_. III.iii.57 (386,8) Rather than envy you] _Envy_ is here taken at large for _malignity_ or ill intention. III.iii.64 (386,9) season'd office] All _office established_ and _settled_ by time, and made familiar to the people by long use. III.iii.96 (387,1) has now at last] Read rather, --has _now at last_ [instead of _as now at last_]. III.iii.97 (387,2) not in the presence] _Not_ stands again for _not only_. III.iii.114 (388,3) My dear wife's estimate] I love my country beyond the rate at which I _value my dear wife_. III.iii.127 (389,4) Have the power still To banish your defenders'; till, at length, Your ignorance, (which finds not, till it feels)] _Still retain the power of banishing your defenders, till your undiscerning folly, which can foresee no consequences, leave none in the city but yourselves, who are always labouring your own destruction._ |
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