Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson
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Thou needs must be _englutted_."
And again in _Timon_ and _Othello_. Yet Milton writes _glutted offal_ for _swallowed_, and therefore perhaps the present text may stand. I.i.65 (7,1) [Farewell, brother!] All these lines have been hitherto given to Gonzalo, who has no brother in the ship. It is probable that the lines succeeding the _confused noise within_ should be considered as spoken by no determinate characters, but should be printed thus. 1 _Sailor_. Mercy on us! We split, we split! 2 _Sailor_. Farewell, my, &c. 3 _Sailor_. Brother, farewell, &c. (see 1765, I,6,6) I.ii.15 (8,3) [_Mira_. O, woe the day! _Pro_. No harm, I have done nothing but in care of thee] I know not whether Shakespeare did not make Miranda speak thus: _O, woe the day! no harm?_ To which Prospero properly answers: _I have done nothing but in care of thee_. Miranda, when he speaks the words, _O, woe the day_! supposes, not that the crew had escaped, but that her father thought differently from her, and counted their destruction _no harm_. |
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