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Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Samuel Johnson
page 73 of 398 (18%)

V.i.20 (420,2) It was a bare petition] [_Bare_, for mean, beggarly.
WARBURTON.] I believe rather, a petition unsupported, unaided by names
that might give it influence.

V.i.63 (422,4) I tell you, he does sit in gold] He is inthroned in all
the pomp and pride of imperial splendour.

[Greek: Chruzothronos Aerae]--Hom.

V.i.69 (422,5) Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions] This if
apparently wrong. Sir T. Hanmer, and Dr. Warburton after him, read,

_Bound with an oath_ not to _yield to_ new _conditions_.

They might have read more smoothly,

--_to yield no new conditions_.

But the whole speech is in confusion, and I suspect something left out.
I should read,

--_What he would do,
He sent in writing after; what he would not,
Bound with an oath. To yield to his conditions_.

Here is, I think, a chasm. The speaker's purpose seems to be this: _To
yield to his conditions_ is ruin, and better cannot be obtained, _so
that all hope is vain_.

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