Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson
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II.i.39 (123,2) [without you were so simple, none else would] None else would _be so simple_. II.i.148 (127,5) [reasoning with yourself?] That is, _discoursing, talking_. An Italianism. II.iii.22 (129,2) [I am the dog] This passage is much confused, and of confusion the present reading makes no end. Sir T. Hammer reads, _I am the dog, no, the dog is himself and I am_ me, _the dog is_ the dog, _and I am myself_. This certainly is more reasonable, but I know not how much reason the author intended to bestow on Launce's soliloquy. II.iv.57 (133,1) [not without desert] And not dignified with so much reputation without proportionate merit. II.iv.115 (134,2) [No: that you are worthless] I have inserted the particle _no_ to fill up the measure. II.iv.129 (135,4) [I have done penance for contemning love; Whose high imperious thoughts have punish'd me With bitter fasts, with penitential groans] For _whose_ I read _those_. I have contemned love and am punished. _Those_ high thoughts by which I exalted myself above human passions or frailties have brought upon me fasts and groans. |
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