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and contain , nevertheless , much that is interesting , raising in our minds pleasant recollections of the olden times , with a hundred queries . Some have been puzzled by many words in " King Henry IV ; " take those of King Henry , Act i . sc . 1 : —
"No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children ' s blood . "
A great liberty is taken by many commentators , who seem to believe the farther they depart from the orthography of the first folio , the clearer they render obscure passages , among which we \ vould hardly class the one above . Eor the word " entrance , " Mr . Knight proposes to read the word " mouth , " which , though giving the sense exactly , robs the line of a foot . " Entrance" is clearly a poetical name for mouth , which combines both sense and metre . In an edition of Shakespeare ( 1846 ) collated from the editions of
G-eorge Stevens , Malone , and Samuel Johnson , we have for " entrance" the word " Erinnys , " which is certainly far-fetched ; and as the word " mouth " robbed the line of a foot , this burdens it with one too much . < e Ten thousand bold Scots , two-and-twenty knights , JBaWd ' m their own blood . "—( Acti . sc . 1 . )
Balked , id est , piled up in a heap . The word balk is used by Locke in the sense of disappoint , and it is in this sense a favourite term with the schoolboy . The one meaning is evidently derived from the other , for a person who has obstacles heaped up before him on every side is disappointed . " The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess . "
The word cess for measure is now seldom , if ever , used , except in its compounds , excess ) cessation , & c . Doubtless to cease from doing anything , is nothing more than to make a cess , to make a rest , and draw the limit .
Falstaff . —I'll sew nether-stocks "—( Act ii . sc . 4 . ) . Nether-stocks or stockings , stakes , and village stocks in which your feet were stuck , have all the same root . " They are all , " says Trench , " derived from , and were originally the past participle of to
stick , ' which , as it now makes ' stuck , ' made formerly stock ; ' and they cohere in the idea oifixednessy which is common to every one . " Ealstaff shortly afterwards makes use of a curious word in this
sentence" How now , my sweet creature of bombast 1 " Bombast was the wadding with which garments were lined ; from this , words grandiloquent and inflated came to be called " bombast , " and those who indulge in such strains we term bombastic , which , like the Oxonian word " bumptious , " is not to be found in Johnson ' s Dictionary . (< Sometimes he angers me With telling me of the inoldwarp "—( Act iii . sc . 2 , )
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and contain , nevertheless , much that is interesting , raising in our minds pleasant recollections of the olden times , with a hundred queries . Some have been puzzled by many words in " King Henry IV ; " take those of King Henry , Act i . sc . 1 : —
"No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children ' s blood . "
A great liberty is taken by many commentators , who seem to believe the farther they depart from the orthography of the first folio , the clearer they render obscure passages , among which we \ vould hardly class the one above . Eor the word " entrance , " Mr . Knight proposes to read the word " mouth , " which , though giving the sense exactly , robs the line of a foot . " Entrance" is clearly a poetical name for mouth , which combines both sense and metre . In an edition of Shakespeare ( 1846 ) collated from the editions of
G-eorge Stevens , Malone , and Samuel Johnson , we have for " entrance" the word " Erinnys , " which is certainly far-fetched ; and as the word " mouth " robbed the line of a foot , this burdens it with one too much . < e Ten thousand bold Scots , two-and-twenty knights , JBaWd ' m their own blood . "—( Acti . sc . 1 . )
Balked , id est , piled up in a heap . The word balk is used by Locke in the sense of disappoint , and it is in this sense a favourite term with the schoolboy . The one meaning is evidently derived from the other , for a person who has obstacles heaped up before him on every side is disappointed . " The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess . "
The word cess for measure is now seldom , if ever , used , except in its compounds , excess ) cessation , & c . Doubtless to cease from doing anything , is nothing more than to make a cess , to make a rest , and draw the limit .
Falstaff . —I'll sew nether-stocks "—( Act ii . sc . 4 . ) . Nether-stocks or stockings , stakes , and village stocks in which your feet were stuck , have all the same root . " They are all , " says Trench , " derived from , and were originally the past participle of to
stick , ' which , as it now makes ' stuck , ' made formerly stock ; ' and they cohere in the idea oifixednessy which is common to every one . " Ealstaff shortly afterwards makes use of a curious word in this
sentence" How now , my sweet creature of bombast 1 " Bombast was the wadding with which garments were lined ; from this , words grandiloquent and inflated came to be called " bombast , " and those who indulge in such strains we term bombastic , which , like the Oxonian word " bumptious , " is not to be found in Johnson ' s Dictionary . (< Sometimes he angers me With telling me of the inoldwarp "—( Act iii . sc . 2 , )