Abbildungen der Seite
PDF
EPUB

e

Act five, scene one. Broken lines at 57, 61, 87, 101, 103, 172, 174, 264, 282, 301, some of which may have arisen from revision. The extra-metrical and detached 'No' given to Prospero at 1. 130 is curious and can best be explained by a 'cut' in the text which deprived us of the rest of the retort. Further the extreme awkwardness of 1. 250, 'Which to you...of every,' suggests adaptation. Finally an important point is to be noted, viz. that this is the only occasion, apparently, in the whole canon where speakers who have concluded one scene appear again at the opening of the next. It is practically certain that some intervening scene has been deleted between 4. 1. and 5. 1.

D. W.

ul'

[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors]

Facsimile of 16 lines from the "Shakespearian" Addition to Sir Thomas More. British Museum, Harleian MS. 7368 f. 9 (reduced).

[87]

TRANSCRIPT OF THE FACSIMILE
FROM SIR THOMAS MORE

all marry god forbid that

moo nay certainly you ar

for to the king god hath his offyc lent
of dread of lustyce, power and Comaund
hath bid him rule, and willd you to obay

and to add ampler matie to this

I

5

he [god] hath not [le] souly lent the king his figure
his throne [hys] & sword, but gyven him his owne name

calls him a god on earth, what do you then

[merged small][ocr errors]

but ryse gainst god, what do you to you sowles

in doing this o desperat [ar] as you are.

wash your foule mynds wt teares and those same hande

that you lyke rebells lyft against the peace

lift vp for peace, and your vnreuerent knees

15

[that] make them your feet to kneele to be forgyven

Notes. Sir Thomas More, haranguing a crowd of London apprentices on 'ill May-day' 1517, reminds them that in rising against the king's authority they are in rebellion against God Himself.

2.

Deleted words or letters are printed in brackets. 1. The rule indicates the beginning of a new speech. 'moo' =a contraction for 'Moore,' i.e. Sir Thomas More. 7. 'souly' (=solely) was first written 'only'; the alteration was made by prefixing an Italian s below the line.

« ZurückWeiter »