This is quite in
accordance
with Jonson's
custom (see Wilke, p.
custom (see Wilke, p.
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= See note 5.
8.
91-2.
=4. 7. 37-40. = See variants. Gifford silently follows Whalley's
changes, which are utterly unwarrantable. Cunningham points out the
wrong division in 37, 8. The scansion is thus indicated by Wilke
(_Metrische Untersuchungen_, p. 3):
Of a/ most wor/thy gen/tleman. / Would one
Of worth/ had spoke/ it: whence/ it comes,/ it is
Rather/ a shame/ to me,/ ? then/ a praise.
The missing syllable in the third verse is compensated for by the
pause after the comma.
This is quite in accordance with Jonson's
custom (see Wilke, p. 1 f. ).
=4. 7. 45 Publication. = See 3. 3. 137.
=4. 7. 54 I sou't him. = See variants. Gifford says that he can make
nothing of _sou't_ but _sought_ and _sous'd_, and that he prefers the
latter. Dyce (_Remarks_) confidently asserts that the word is the
same as _shue_, 'to frighten away poultry,' and Cunningham accepts
this without question. There seems, however, to be no confirmation
for the theory that the preterit was ever spelt _sou't_.
=4. 7. 37-40. = See variants. Gifford silently follows Whalley's
changes, which are utterly unwarrantable. Cunningham points out the
wrong division in 37, 8. The scansion is thus indicated by Wilke
(_Metrische Untersuchungen_, p. 3):
Of a/ most wor/thy gen/tleman. / Would one
Of worth/ had spoke/ it: whence/ it comes,/ it is
Rather/ a shame/ to me,/ ? then/ a praise.
The missing syllable in the third verse is compensated for by the
pause after the comma.
This is quite in accordance with Jonson's
custom (see Wilke, p. 1 f. ).
=4. 7. 45 Publication. = See 3. 3. 137.
=4. 7. 54 I sou't him. = See variants. Gifford says that he can make
nothing of _sou't_ but _sought_ and _sous'd_, and that he prefers the
latter. Dyce (_Remarks_) confidently asserts that the word is the
same as _shue_, 'to frighten away poultry,' and Cunningham accepts
this without question. There seems, however, to be no confirmation
for the theory that the preterit was ever spelt _sou't_.
