It is a mere change of
spelling
and has the support
of both _H51_ and _W_.
of both _H51_ and _W_.
John Donne
526.
Shakespeare uses it
repeatedly: 'A ragged, fearful, hanging rock,' _Gent. of Ver. _ I.
ii. 121; 'My ragged prison walls,' _Rich. II_, V. v. 21; and
metaphorically, 'Winter's ragged hand,' _Sonn. _ VI. i.
ll. 85-7. _To will implyes delay, &c. _ I have changed the 'to' of
_1633_ to 'too'.
It is a mere change of spelling and has the support
of both _H51_ and _W_. Grosart and Chambers take it as the preposition
following the noun it governs, 'hard knowledge to'--an unexampled
construction in the case of a monosyllabic preposition. Franz
(_Shak. -Gram. _ ? 544) gives cases of inversion for metrical purposes,
but only with 'mehrsilbigen Prapositionen', e. g. 'For fear lest day
should look their shapes upon. ' _Mid. N. Dream_, III. ii. 385.
Grosart, the Grolier Club editor, and Chambers have all, I think, been
misled by the accidental omission in _1633_ of the full stop or colon
after 'doe', l. 85. Chambers prints:
To will implies delay, therefore now do
Hard deeds, the body's pains; hard knowledge to
The mind's endeavours reach.
repeatedly: 'A ragged, fearful, hanging rock,' _Gent. of Ver. _ I.
ii. 121; 'My ragged prison walls,' _Rich. II_, V. v. 21; and
metaphorically, 'Winter's ragged hand,' _Sonn. _ VI. i.
ll. 85-7. _To will implyes delay, &c. _ I have changed the 'to' of
_1633_ to 'too'.
It is a mere change of spelling and has the support
of both _H51_ and _W_. Grosart and Chambers take it as the preposition
following the noun it governs, 'hard knowledge to'--an unexampled
construction in the case of a monosyllabic preposition. Franz
(_Shak. -Gram. _ ? 544) gives cases of inversion for metrical purposes,
but only with 'mehrsilbigen Prapositionen', e. g. 'For fear lest day
should look their shapes upon. ' _Mid. N. Dream_, III. ii. 385.
Grosart, the Grolier Club editor, and Chambers have all, I think, been
misled by the accidental omission in _1633_ of the full stop or colon
after 'doe', l. 85. Chambers prints:
To will implies delay, therefore now do
Hard deeds, the body's pains; hard knowledge to
The mind's endeavours reach.
