Shakespeare Hermeneutics; Or, the Still Lion, Being An Essay Towards the Restoration of Shakespeare's Text
Shakespeare Hermeneutics; Or, the Still Lion, Being An Essay Towards the Restoration of Shakespeare's Text
Ingleby Clement Mansfield
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4. But what shall we say when a passage is entirely altered on the supposition that a word meant something which it never did mean, and does not mean at present 1 Yet this has hap- pened to a passage in Troilus and Cressida, v. 2. When Troilus finds that Cressid has forsaken him for Diomed, he bursts into a passion of love and indignation, which is in Shakespeare's finest manner. He cries, Digitized by Google 64 The Still Lion, This is, and is not Cressui: Within my soule there doth conduce a f...ight Of this strange nature, that a thing inseparate Divides more wider then the skie and earth: And yet the spacious bredth of this division Admits no Orifex for a point as subtle As Ariachn^s broken woofe to enter: (Fo. 1623) Shaikespeare elsewhere employs very similar imagery: *but I am not to say, it is the sea, for it is now the sky: betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust a bodkin's point,' The Winter's Tale^ iii. 3 ; that is, though the sky and the sea are so widely divided, or separated, yet the sea mounts to such a height, that at times a point cannot be inserted between them.
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