Critical Notes. BY ISRAEL GOLLANCZ. I. i. 5. 'sound'; so the Folios; Pope changed it to 'south', and editors have generally accepted this emendation, but it seems unnecessary: Grant White appropriately asks, Did Pope, or the editors who have followed him, ever lie musing on the sward at the edge of a wood, and hear the low sweet hum of the summer air, as it kissed the coyly-shrinking wild flowers upon the banks, and passed on loaded with fragrance from the sweet salute?" I. i. 22. 'like fell and cruel hounds'; referring to the story of Acteon. I. i. 38. ́all supplied, and fill'd'; the comma after 'supplied' is not in the Folio: its insertion simplifies the lines. Others leave the Folio reading, but bracket her sweet perfections' in the next line; making them appositional to thrones.' I. i. 15. ‘Arion on the dolphin's back'; the Folios misprint Arion on the dolphin's back. From B. Küchler's Repræsentatio der Fürstlichen Auffzug. ... 'Orion' for 'Arion. Cp. the famous Vision "-in Midsummer-Night's Dream. passage-" Oberon's I. iii. 70-71. ‘bring your hand to the buttery-bar and let it a proverbial phrase among Abigails, to ask at once for a kiss and a present (Kenrick). I. iii. 96. 'Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair'; Sir Toby evidently plays upon 'tongues' and 'tongs' (i. e. curlingtongs). a noble I. iii. 120. ‘an old man'; Theobald proposed to read man,' taking the allusion to be to Orsino. Clarke explains 'an old man as ‘a man of experience'; the word old," he adds, gives precisely that absurd effect of refraining from competing in dancing, fencing, etc., with exactly the antagonist incapacitated by age over whom Sir Andrew might hope to prove his superiority." I. iii. 141. That's sides and heart'; Sir Andrew and Sir Toby are wrong in the parts assigned to Taurus in the old astrological figures of the human body. Taurus was supposed to govern the neck and throat. I. iv. 3. 'three days'; Mr. Daniel points out in his 'Time Analysis' that this statement is inconsistent with the Duke's words in V. i. 102, 'Three months this youth hath tended upon me. II. i. 17. ‘Messaline'; possibly an error for Mitylene, as Capell conjectured. II. iii. 17. the picture of we three a common sign, in which two wooden heads are exhibited with this inscription under it, 'We three loggerheads be,' the spectator being supposed to make the third" (Malone). II. iii. 23-25. Pigrogromitus .. of Queubus, etc. Mr. Swinburne sees in these 'freaks of nomenclature' the direct influence of Rabelais (cp. A Study of Shakespeare, pp. 155, 156). 66 II. iii. 40. 'O mistress mine,' etc.; this tune is contained in both the editions of Morley's Consort Lessons, 1599 and 1611. It is also found in Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book, arranged by Boyd. As it is to be found in print in 1599, it proves either that Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was written in or before that year, or that, in accordance with the then prevailing custom, 'O mistress mine,' was an old song, introduced into the play" (Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time). II. iii. 117. 'Out o' tune, sir: ye lie'; Theobald proposed time, sir?' which has been very generally adopted. The reading of the Folios may well stand without change. Sir Toby says to |