Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. ACT I.?Scene I. 1. As I, etc. 'This fine natural opening, as if Adam and Or lando had been engaged in conversation previously, and we are introduced in medias res to their talk, has troubled the commentators, who, not recognising the art of the author, insist on furnishing, at the suggestion of Sir W. Blackstone, this incomplete sentence with a proper subject by introducing he, meaning my father, before bequeathed'?W. N. Lettsom, or ' charged' E. A. Abbott. 2. Poor a thousand?a poor thousand, by inversion or hyperbaton. 5. School?the university. See Hamlet: ' For your intent In going back to school in Wittenberg'?I, ii, 112, 113. 7. At home unkept. ' Home-keeping youths have ever homely wits'? Two Gentlemen of Verona, I, i, 2. 9. The stalling of an ox. Prov. xv, 17. II. Manage?manege, exercise, disciplined tratning. 15. Countenance?mode of treating me, carriage towards me. 16. Binds. From Hina, A. S., a domestic. Labourers hired by the year for service in the home-work of the farm or estate. 17. Mines?undermines; saps by slow degrees, and destroys by secret means?Hamlet, III, iv, 148. 25-27. Make. . . . mar?() Do, (2) be profitable for, produce; spoil. See a similar play upon words in Loves Labour s Lost: ' King. What makes treason here ? Costard. Nay, it makes nothing, sir. King. If it mar nothing neither'?IV, iiif 190-193. 28. That which God made?a man?Gen. ii, 7; Jer. xviii, 4. 30. Be naught awhile?a peevish, minced oath, ?mischief take you, plague on you, etc. Naught, (1) worthless (III, ii, 14), (2) wicked, (3) accursed?Prov. xx, 14; Isa. xli, 24; Lear, II, iv, 136. 31-33. Shall Ikeep . . . .penury. Luke xv, 11-17. 37. Him?a contraction for ' he whom'?Antony and Cleopatra, III, i, 15; Coriolanus, V, vi, .