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129. Push. Impulse (Schmidt), or suggestion. Clarke explains it as "emergency, special occasion."

131. You precious winners. You who have gained what is precious to

you.

132. Partake. Impart. Cf. Per. i. 1. 153:

66 our mind partakes

Her private actions to your secrecy."

Turtle. See on iv. 4. 154 above.

144. Whose. Referring to Camillo, not to her.

145. Is richly noted. The Var. of 1821 misprints "It richly noted." Justified=avouched. Cf. v. 2. 62 above.

147. What! look upon my brother. "How exquisitely this serves to depict the sensitively averted face of Hermione from Polixenes, recollecting all the misconstruction that had formerly grown out of her purely gracious attentions to him; and also how sufficingly it shows the sincere repentance of Leontes for bygone errors, that he has had sixteen years to mourn and see in their true light! No one better than Shakespeare knew the nobleness of a candid avowal of previous mistake, the relief of heart to its speaker, the elevated satisfaction to its hearers; and with this crowning satisfaction he leaves us at the close of this grandly beautiful play" (Clarke).

148. Holy. Blameless. Cf. v. I. 29, 31, and 169 above. 149. This is your son-in-law, etc. The folio reads thus:

"This your Son-in-law,

And Sonne vnto the King, whom heauens directing
Is troth-plight to your daughter."

D. adopts Walker's suggestion of "This' your"="This is your," which, as the latter remarks, would not mar the metre, though he prefers the other. The "Globe" ed. inserts the "is." It seems awkward to make the leading sentence "This your son-in-law is troth-plight to your daughter"-the assertion being already implied in the subject-and to make "whom heavens directing" merely parenthetical. What Leontes says is rather, we think, "This is your son-in-law, and by heaven's direction he is troth-plight," etc. "Whom heavens directing" is a "confusion of construction" for "Who, heavens directing him." For many somewhat similar ones, see Gr. 249, 410, and 415. Capell changed whom to "who," as the "Globe" ed. does.

For troth-plight, cf. Hen. V. ii. 1. 21: "you were troth-plight to her."

ADDENDA.

THE ILLUSTRATIONS.-As we are unable to give pictorial illustrations of Shakespeare's Bohemia (except the one on page 9, to which we venture to say no other "local habitation" can be assigned), we insert a few that belong to the real Bohemia of that day. The royal palace and the cathedral at Prague were old buildings even then; but the portal to the former (see p. 41) was designed by Scamozzi, and the royal mausoleum

in the latter (p. 8) was the work of Colin of Malines, both of whom were contemporaries of the poet.

THE "TIME-ANALYSIS" OF THE PLAY.-We give below the summing-up of Mr. P. A. Daniel's "time-analysis" in his paper "On the Times or Durations of the Action of Shakspere's Plays" (Trans. of New Shaks. Soc. 1877-79, p. 177), with a few explanatory extracts from the preceding pages appended as foot-notes:

"The time of this Play comprises eight days represented on the stage; with intervals.

Day 1. Act I. sc. i. and ii.

66 2. Act II. sc. i.*

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*"I am not sure that a separate day should be given to this scene; but, on the whole, the proposed departure of Polixenes and Camillo on the night of the first day, and the mission, since then, of Cleomenes and Dion to Delphos make this division probable."

"Twenty-three days,' says Leontes, 'they have been absent: 't is good speed,' etc.; and he orders a session to be summoned for the arraignment of the queen."

"Note that Camillo makes his absence from Sicilia to be fifteen years. This is probably a mere error of the printer or copyist. Besides the sixteen announced by Time, the Chorus, sixteen years is the period again twice mentioned in act v. sc. iii.-line 31, Which lets go by some sixteen years;' and line 50, ' Which sixteen winters cannot blow away,' etc.'

"Autolycus cheats the Clown (the Shepherd's son) of his purse as he is on his way to buy things for the sheep-shearing festival. This incident suggests the placing of the festival on the following day."

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INDEX OF WORDS AND PHRASES

EXPLAINED.

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201, 209.

afar off guilty, 166.
afeard, 200.

affection (disposition), 210.
affection (lust), 154.
affects (form), 200.
affront (meet), 208.
aired, 182.

allow (of this), 182.
allowed (allowable), 158.
allowing (=approving), 156.
amazedness, 210.

an it like (if it please), 205.
ancient, 189.
ancientry, 180.

angle (attraction), 183.
another (the other), 179,

195, 211.

ape, 211.
ape-bearer, 186.

apparent (=heir apparent),
156.

appear (=appear so), 203.
appoint myself, 160.
apprehend, 188.

approbation (=proof), 167.
approved (=proved, 183.
argument (subject, 182.
as. (as if). 160, 182, 212.
as (omitted), 205.
aspect (accent), 166.
at door, 199.
at friend, 209.

at palace, 205.
attach (=arrest), 209.
attorneyed, 148.

aunts (mistresses), 184.
avoid (begone), 163.

baits (attacks), 170.
barne, 180.

basilisk, 161.
bawcock, 153.
bearing-cloth, 181.
becoming (comely), 179.
benched, 159.
best in picture, 204.
Best, the (=Christ), 162.
betwixt us three, 202.
bide upon, 158.
blank (target), 168.
blench, 160.

bless me from, 198.
block, 157.

blood (=passions), 151.
blossom, 179.
Bohemia, 148, 179.
boiled brains, 180.
boot, to, 151, 204.
borrow (noun', 149.
bosom (inmost thoughts),

203.
bourn, 154.

braid (deceitful). 196.
brave (fine), 196.
break up, 176.
break-neck, 160.
breed, 179.

bring (accompany), 186.
bug (=bugbear), 176.
but (but that), 209.
but (only), 165.
but (peculiar use), 183, 195.

caddisses, 196.
callat, 170.
came home, 157.
cap-a-pe, 206.
carbonadoed, 198.
carnations, 189.
carriage (conduct'. 174.
case (skin), 204, 207.
oaught (impressed. 174.
censure (judgment, 164.
centre (earth, 165.
chamber-counsels. 158.
changed (=exchanged), 151,
188.
changeling, 181, 205.

character, 179, 210.
charge (value), 197.
charm your tongues, 197.
chase, 180.
cheat, 184.

child (girl), 180.
childness, 156.
choughs, 204.

clap thyself my love, 152.
clerk-like, 161.
climate (verb), 209.
clipping, 210.

cock (woodcock), 184.
collop, 154.

colour (= pretext), 202.
come into grace, 207.
comforting (=aiding), 169.
comforts (consolations),

202.

commend it strangely, 173.
commission, 155.
commodity, 176.

compassed a motion, 186.
conceit, 157, 177.

conjure (accent), 161.

content, 212.

contract (betrothal), 199,

209.

contrary (accent), 208.
cop'st with, 200.
corse, 194.
counters, 185.
crack, 159.

cracks his gorge, 165.
credent (credible), 155.

crown imperial, 193.
curious, 202.
curst, 181.
cyprus (=crape), 196.
Cytherea, 192.

daffodils, 183, 192.
dam, 178.

damnable (adverb', 178.
dances (throbs, 153.
dead (= deadly), 200.
dear, 172.
dear'st, 154.

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heavy matters, 180.
hefts, 165.

hence (adjective), 163.
hent, 186.

hold (have), 155.
holy (good), 209, 214.
home (adverbial), 158, 212.
honey-mouthed, 168.
hot (=ardent, 205:
hovering (=wavering), 159.
hoxes, 158.

i' fecks! 153.

i' the name of me, 186.
I list not prophesy, 182.
I'll keep my stables, etc,
166.

immodest, 176.

importance (import), 210.
imposition cleared, the, 151.
in breath, 208.
in good time, 195.
in post, 168.

in question, 209.
in skill, 167.
incense, 208.
incertain, 2c7.
incertainties, 177.
incidency, 161.
industriously, 158.

influences, 162.

inkles, 196.

insinuate, 206.
intelligencing, 170.
intelligent, 161.
intention, 154.
into my note, 148.

is grown into an unspeaka-
ble estate, 183.

it (possessive), 155, 176.

it is, 148.

it own, 172.

grafted in my serious trust, it's, 155, 158.

158.

growth untried, 182.
guilty to, 202.

gust (=perceive), 157.

had like, 205.
haled, 176.
hammered of, 168.
hand (verb), 169, 199.
hand-fast, 206.
hangman, 201.
happily (=haply), 210.
happy man be's dole! 155.
harlot (adjective, 168.
hath (plural), 148.
have at it, 198.
have of, 196.

having (property), 205.
heat (run a heat), 152.
heavings, 169.

jar (=tick), 150.
jewel, 159, 210.
Julio Romano, 211.
justified, 214.

kills my heart, 186.
kiln-hole, 197.
knack, 199, 200.

lady Fortune, 188.
land-damn, 167.
lasting wink, 159.
lavender, 190.
lays it on, 185.
leash, 201.

leave me solely, 169.
let him there, 150.
level, 168, 175.
lewd-tongued, 172.

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