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Notes for lines 2023-2950 ed. Frank N. Clary
| 2692-3 Ham. Nothing but to shew you how a King may goe | a progresse | |
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2693 through the guts of a begger. {K2v}
1755 Johnson Dict.
Johnson Dict.
2692 progresse] Johnson (1755): 1. “course; procession; passage.”
2. “advancement; motion forward.”
3. “intellectual improvement; advancement in knowledge.”
4. “removal from one place to another.”
5. “qualified for; without any natural impediment.”
1774 capn
capn
2693 progresse] Capell (1774, 1:1: glossary, progress): “(K. J. 76, 23.) move in a Progress or Progression.”
1793 v1793
v1793
2693 progresse] Steevens (ed. 1793): “Alluding to the royal journeys of state, always styled progresses; a familiar idea to those who, like our author, lived during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. Steevens.”
1819 cald1
cald1 = v1813 +
2693 progresse] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “Mr. Nicholls, the printer, has published several of them: and the journeys of business made by colleges and public bodies are still so denominated.”
cald1: xref.
2693 guts] Caldecott (ed. 1819): “For the use of the term guts, see [3.4.212 (2579)].”
1826 sing1
sing1 ≈ v1793 + magenta underlined
2693 progresse] Singer (ed. 1826): “A progress is a journey. Steevens says ‘it alludes to the royal journies of state, always styled progresses.’ This was probably in Shakspeare’s mind, for the word was certainly applied to those periodical journeys of the sovereign to visit their noble subjects, but by no means exclusively. Sir William Drury, in a Letter of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, among the Conway papers, tells him he is going ‘a little progresse to be merry with his neighbours.’ And that popular book of John Bunyan’s, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is surely not the acount of a regal ‘predatory excursion.’”
1854 del2
del2 ≈ v1793 without attribution
2693 progresse] Delius (ed. 1854): “progress ist der technische Ausdruck für die officielle Reise eines Königs durch sein Land.” [progress is the technical expression for a king’s official journey through his realm.]
1856 hud1 (1851-6)
hud1: standard
2693 progresse] Hudson (ed. 1851-6): “Alluding to the royal journeys of state, styled progresses.”
1857 fieb
fieb ≈ v1793
2692 progresse] Fiebig (ed. 1857): “Alluding to the royal journeys of state, always styled progresses; a familiar idea to those who, like our author, lived during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. St.”
1864a glo
glo: xref.
2693 progresse] Clark and Wright (ed. 1864a [1865] 9: glossary, Progress): “sb. a royal ceremonial journey. Ham. 4.3.”
1869 tsch
tsch: Shaksp.-Forsch; xref.
2692-3 Tschischwitz (ed. 1869): “Die Circulation der Atome durch die wechselnden Erscheinungen der Naturdinge bildet ein wichtiges Object der atomistischen Naturbetrachtung, wie H. sie hier mit dem freien Humor des Philosphen vorträgt. S. m. Shaksp.-Forsch. I. p. 57.—Ein ähnlicher Gedanke findet sich 5.1.224 f.” [The circulation of the atoms by the changing appearance of natural things forms an important object of the atomic consideration of nature, as Hamlet here brings forth with the free humor of a philosopher. See my Shaksp.-Forsch. I. p. 57.—A similar thought is to be found in [5.1.209ff. (3396ff.)]
1877 v1877
v1877 v1793
2693 progresse]
Furness (ed. 1877): “
Steevens: Royal journeys of state were always styled ‘progresses,’ and were familiar enough to the subjects of Elizabeth and James I.”
1878 rlf1
rlf1 ≈ v1793 + magenta underlined
2693 progresse] Rolfe (ed. 1878): “A royal journey of state was always so called (Steevens). Cf. 2H6 [1.4.72 (702)]: ‘The king is now in progress towards Saint Alban’s.’”
1882 elze
elze: Athenæum
2692-3 a King . . . a beggar] Elze (ed. 1882): “I cannot help thinking that Q1 here exhibits the authentic text, inasmuch as it seems obvious that the fish that fed of the worm which ate of a king, should distinctly be stated to have been eaten by a beggar; otherwise Hamlet could hardly proceed to say, that his words were meant to show ‘how a King may goe a progresse through the guts of a begger’. The words ‘a beggar’ were left out afterwards by a mistake of either the copyist or compositor. See The Athenæum, June 11, 1881, p. 783.”
1885 macd
macd
2692-3 a King . . . begger] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “Hamlet’s philosophy deals much now with the worthlessness of all human distinctions and affairs.”
macd: standard
2692 progresse] MacDonald (ed. 1885): “a royal progress.”
1899 ard1
ard1≈ rlf1 (2H6 //)
2693 progresse] Dowden (ed. 1899): “a royal journey of state, as in 2H6 [1.4.72 (702)].”
1891 dtn
dtn ≈ v1793
2692-3 goe a progresse] Deighton (ed. 1891): “an allusion to the royal ‘progress,’ journeys of state, so common in England in former days.”
1903 p&c
p&c ≈ ard1 (2H6 //)
2693 a progresse] Porter & clarke (ed. 1903): “So a royal journey was called. ‘The king is now in progresse towards Saint Albones’ [2H6 1.4.72 (702)].”
1903 rlf3
rlf3 = rlf1 minus v1793 attribution
1904 ver
ver: England’s Helicon, Nichols analogues
2692 progresse] Verity (ed. 1904): “the regular word in Shakespeare’s time for the state-journeys of the sovereign. Compare a note appended to a poem in the beautiful collection of verse called England’s Helicon (1600): “This Ditty was sung before her Majesty at Sudley Castle, at her last being there in progress’ (Bullen’s Reprint, pp. 151,154). One of the most valuable works of reference for the Elizabethan period is Nichols’s Progresses of Queen Elizabeth.”
1931 crg1
crg1 = ard1 minus 2H6 //
2693 progresse] Craig (ed. 1931): “royal journey of state.”
1934 cam3
cam3 ≈ crg1
2693 progresse] Wilson (ed. 1934): “state journey, v. G.”
1934 cam3 Glossary
cam3 ≈ v1793
2693 progresse] Wilson (ed. 1934, Glossary): “a royal or state journey, such as Queen Elizabeth made annually to different parts of England.”
1939 kit2
kit2 ≈ fieb
2692 progresse] Kittredge (ed. 1939): “a journey of state undertaken by a monarch from one part of his realm to another. Queen Elizabeth and James I were fond of such progresses.”
1980 pen2
pen2 ≈ cam3
2692 progresse] Spencer (ed. 1980): “(the usual word for a monarch’s official journeys through his kingdom).”
1982 ard2
ard2 ≈ kit2
2691 progress] Jenkins (ed. 1982): “state journey, especially of a monarch (as made famous by Elizabeth).”
1984 chal
chal ≈ ard2
2693 progresse] Wilkes (ed. 1984): “the ceremonial journey of a monarch.”
1987 oxf4
oxf4 ≈ kit2 + magenta underlined
2692 progresse] Hibbard (ed. 1987): “state journey. Both Queen Elizabeth and James I were in the habit of making a royal progress through the land each summer. Accompanied by an enormous retinue of courtiers and servants, they often ate their hosts ‘out of house and home’. The ‘progress’ Hamlet envisages is a marvelously ironical reversal of that progress.”
1993 dent
dent ≈ kit2 + magenta underlined
2692-2693 goe a progresse] Andrews (ed. 1993): “Hamlet alludes to the pompous ceremonies whereby royal personages were welcomed when they went on progresses, official state journeys; he suggests that a king’s final progress may be somewhat less dignified than the ones he grew accustomed to in life.”
1998 OED
OED
2692 progresse] OED (Sept. 15, 1998): “2. spec. a. A state journey made by a royal or noble personage, or by a church dignitary; a visit of state; also, the official tour made by judges and others, a circuit; an official visitation of its estates by a college. Now somewhat archaic.
“1461 Rolls of Parlt. V. 475/2 The Kyng..beyng in his progresse in the seid Counte. 1503-4 Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 7 §1 The justices of assises in ther cyrcuyte or progresse in that shyre. 1568 GRAFTON Chron. II. 597 In the time of King Henry the sixt..as he roade in Progresse. a 1648 LD. HERBERT Hen. VIII (1683) 132 Synodal Judges, going Progress yearly under pretext of Visitation. 1795 Order of Audit Magd. Coll. Oxf. 18 Feb., That Bills on Country Banks be accepted on the Progresses, but that the Bursars be desired to negotiate them as soon as possible. 1796 MORSE Amer. Geog. II. 99 Comprehended in six circuits, or annual progress of the judges. 1811 Order Magd. Coll. 4 June, That the Norfolk Progress do take place this year and at the expiration of three years from this time. 1849 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. v. I. 593 He was President of Wales and lord lieutenant of four English counties. His official tours..were scarcely inferior in pomp to royal progresses. 1901 RASHDALL & RAIT New College 251 New College is one of the few Colleges in which an annual `Progress’ still takes place. The Warden (or Sub-warden) accompanied by a Fellow known as `Out-rider’..and the Steward, visit the farms on some part of the College estates.”
2006 ard3q2
ard3q2
2693 progress] Thompson & Taylor (ed. 2006): “the term used for official journeys by royalty.”
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