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Notes for lines 0-1017 ed. Bernice W. Kliman
| 124+14 {And euen the like precurse of feare euents} | 1.1.121 |
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1747 warb
warb
124+14 feare] Warburton (ed. 1747): “fierce, for terrible.”
1753 blair
blair = warb
124+14 feare]
1765 john1
john1= warb
124+14 feare]
1773 v1773
v1773
124+14 And euen] Johnson (ed. 1773): “Not only such prodigies have been seen in Rome, but the elements have shewn our countrymen like forerunners and foretokens of violent events. ”
v1773 = warb
124 +14 feare]
1778 v1778
v1778 = v1773
124 +14 And euen]
v1778 = v1773 +
124+14 feare] Steevens (ed. 1778): “I rather believe fierce signifies conspicuous, glaring. It is used in a somewhat similar sense in Timon. —‘O the fierce wretchedness that glory brings! [Tim. 4.2.30 (1580)].”
1780 mals1
mals1
124+14-124+16 precurse . . . harbindgers . . . Omen] Malone (1780, 1:733 n. 8) connects poem 20, st. 2, lines 1-3, in The Passionate Pilgrim [Phoenix and the Turtle 6] to Ham: ‘But thou shrieking harbinger Foul pre-currer of the fiend, Auger of the fever’s end . . . ’ Malone.”
1783 mals2
mals2 ≈ mals1 on PhT
124+14-124+16 Malone (1783, p. 55): “So, in one of our author’s poems, Supplement to the last edition of Shakspeare [i.e. malsi], vol. I, p. 733: ‘But thou shrieking harbinger, Foul precurrer of the fiend, Augur of the fever’s end, &c.’”
1784 ays1
ays1 = Steevens v1778
124+14 feare]
1785 v1785
v1785 = v1778
124+14 And euen]
v1785 = v1778
124 +14 feare]
1787 ann
ann = v1785
124+14 And euen]
ann = v1785
124 +14 feare]
1790 mal
mal = v1785
124+14 And euen]
mal = v1785
124 +14 feare]
See 124+16 where Malone gathers the three lines together.
1791- rann
rann = Johnson without attribution
124+14 And euen]
1793 v1793
v1793 = mal
124+14 And euen]
v1793 = mal +
124+14 feare] Steevens (ed. 1793): “Again, in [H8 1.1.54 (102)] we have ‘fierce vanities.’”
1803 v1803
v1803 = v1793
124+14 And euen]
v1803 = v1793
124 +14 feare]
1813 v1813
v1813 = v1803
124+14 And euen]
v1813 = v1803
124 +14 feare]
1819 cald1
cald1 = warb; Steevens on Tim. without attribution, Steevens on H8 without attribution + in magenta underlined
124+14 feare] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “Fierce is here bloody and terrible, as elsewhere we find it ‘extreme, excessive.’ ‘O the fierce wretchedness, that glory brings’ [Tim 4.2.30 (1580)]. We have fierce extremes,’ [Jn. 5.7.13 (2619)] and ‘fierce vanities,’ [H8 1.1.54 (102)]. Buck. In Jonson’s Sejanus, Arruntius says, ‘O most tame slavery, and fierce flattery!’ [act 5] ”
1821 v1821
v1821 = v1813
124+14 And euen]
v1821 = v1813
124 +14 feare]
1832 cald2
cald2 ≈ cald1
124+14 feare]
1843 col1
col1
124+14 feare] Collier (ed. 1843): “So [fierce] some of the later quartos: that of 1604 has ‘feare events,’ and perhaps the true word was fear’d.”
1865 hal
hal = Johnson in v1821
124+14 And euen]
1872 cln1
cln1 ≈ mals1 above and mals2 124+10-11] : standard
124+14 precurse] Clark & Wright (ed. 1872): “only found here in Shakespeare, though he uses ‘precurser’ (Phoenix and Turtle, 6) and ‘precursor’ [Tmp. 1.2.201 (313)]. It includes everything that preceded and foreshadowed the fierce events that followed.”
124+14 feare]
Schmidt (1874), citing 124+14 for
Fierce: gloss 3:
“wild, disordered, irregular.”
1877 v1877
v1877 ≈ cln1 silently correcting precurser to precurrer.
124+14 precurse]
v1877: warb, Steevens from v1821, cald (w/ many //s and Jonson analogue)
124+14 feare]
1878 rlf1
rlf1 ≈ cln1+ overt correction
124+14 precurse] Rolfe (ed. 1878): “Wright says that ‘precurser’ occurs in Phoenix and Turtle, 6, but the eds. generally have ‘precurrer.’”
rlf1:
Schmidt gloss 4 with
Tim., H8 //s; Steevens
124+14 feare]
Rolfe (ed. 1878): “Wild, Terrible. It means ‘immoderate, excessive’ (
Schmidt) in [
Tim. 4.2.30 (1580)] and [
H8 1.1.54 (102)]; and Steevens would give it a similar sense (‘conspicuous, glaring’) here.”
1880 meik
meik ≈ Johnson v1773 without attribution
124+14 precurse] Meikeljohn (ed. 1880): “forerunning.”
1881 hud3
hud3 ≈ cln1
124+14 precurse]
hud3
124+14 feare] Hudson (ed. 1881): “The Poet repeatedly uses fierce in the general sense of violent, swift, excessive, vehement, So he has ‘fierce vanities,’ ‘fierce abridgment,’ and ‘fierce wretchedness.’”
1903 rlf3
rlf3 ≈ cln1 without attribution minus Phoenix
124+14 precurse]
rlf3 ≈ rlf1 minus attribution and Steevens.
124+14 feare]
1905 rltr
rltr
124+14 precurse] Chambers (ed. 1905): “foreboding.”
1909 subb
subb
124+14 precurse] Subbarau (ed. 1909): “Prognostication.”
1912 dtn3
dtn3≈ v1773 without attribution
124+14 Deighton (ed. 1912): “and the precisely similar signs forerunning terrible events.”
dtn3: Malone (approximately)
124+14 precurse] Deighton (ed. 1912): “not elsewhere used by Shakespeare, though Malone quotes precurser, Phoenix and Turtle, 6.”
dtn3: cald Jn. // without attribution
124+14 feare]
1913 tut2
tut2 * = unique in Sh. ≈ dtn3 without attribution
124+14 precurse] Goggin (ed. 1913): “heralding.”
tut2 = warb without attribution
124+14 feare] Goggin (ed. 1913): “terrible.”
1924 vand
vand
124+14 feare euents]
Van Dam (ed. 1924, p. 139) justifies the Q2 text: “A
feare euent is one of those loose compounds so frequently occurring in Shakespeare’s works, and which in this case is a much more adequate and telling expression than a
fierce euent. ”
1931 crg1
crg1 = gog without attribution
124+14 precurse] Craig (ed. 1931): “heralding.”
1938 parc
parc
124+14 feare] Parrott & Craig (ed. 1938) approve of the Collier conj. because it is so readily accounted for by the usual mistaking of d for e. Fear’d works better than fearce because Sh. generally spelled that word fierce, and the portended events are “anticipated with fear.”
1939 kit2
kit2 = meik without attribution +
in magenta underlined
124+14 precurse] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “forerunning; indication in advance.”
kit2: standard
124+14 feare] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “fierce: terrible.”
1947 cln2
cln2 ≈ kit2
124+14 precurse] Rylands (ed. 1947): “fore-showing.”
1957 pel1
pel1
124+14 precurse] Farnham (ed. 1957): “foreshadowing.”
1970 pel2
pel2 = pel1
124+14 precurse] Farnham (ed. 1970): “foreshadowing”
1982 ard2
ard2 ≈ cln1 without attribution
124+14 precurse]
ard2 ≈ parc without attribution + in magenta underlined
124+14 feare] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “In view of (1) the sense and (2) the confusion of d and e in the Elizabethan hand, there can be little doubt that this is the correct emendation instead of the fierce which most editors have taken over from Q3. Cf. F’s error at [1010].”
1987 oxf4
oxf4
124+14 euen] Hibbard (ed. 1987): “exactly.”
oxf4 ≈ mal on neologism
124+14 precurse] Hibbard (ed. 1987): “earliest example in OED.”
oxf4 ≈ ard2 without attribution
124+14 feare euents] Hibbard (ed. 1987), emending to feared, opines that feare resulted from a compositor’s misreading of d in feard. He rejects Q3’s fierce.
1992 fol2
fol2: standard
124+14 precurse] Mowat & Werstine (ed. 1992): “foreshadowing“
1997 OED
OED
124+14 feare] OED corroborates warb, except the last use of fere for fierce was 1450.
OED
124+14 precurse] Citing Ham., OED corroborates mals2 on precurse as neologism sb. Obs. rare.
2006 ard3q2
ard3q2: OED
124+14 precurse] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “precursor(s), warning signs; the sole example of this word given by OED”
ard3q2: Tronch-Pérez
124+14 feare] feared Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “Q2’s ’feare’ is generally thought to be a misreading of ’feard’. Tronch-Pérez, however, retains ’fear’ as a noun modifying events and cites Ant. 1.3.101-2 , ’Upon your sword / Sit laurel victory’, as a similar construction.”
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