Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson
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In your and my discharge_.
The reading in the later editions is without authority. The old text may very well stand, except that in the last line _in_ should be _is_. and perhaps we might better say--_and that by destiny_. It being a common plea of wickedness to call temptation destiny. II.i.259 (45,6) [Keep in Tunis] There is in this passage a propriety lost, which a slight alteration will restore: --Sleep _in Tunis, And let Sebastian wake_! II.i.278 (45,7) [Twenty consciences, That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candy'd be they, Or melt e'er they molest] I had rather read, Would _melt e'er they molest_. i.e. _Twenty consciences, such as stand between me and my hopes, though they were congealed, would melt before they could molest one_, or prevent the execution of my purposes. (see 1765, I,40,7) II.i.286 (46,8) [This ancient morsel] For _morsel_ Dr. Warburton reads _ancient moral_, very elegantly and judiciously, yet I know not whether the author might not write _morsel_, as we say a _piece of a man_. II.i.288 (46,9) [take suggestion] i.e. Receive any hint of villainy, |
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