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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...the proper senses of to couch, Richardson gives to lower, to stoop, to bend down ; and he says that to couth and to lower have similar applications, and probably the same origin. 8 Pre-ordinance and first decree is, I take it, the ruling or enactment of the highest authority in the State. The play of children here referred to is, as soon as they have done a thing, to turn round and undo it, or to build a house of blocks or cobs for the mere fun of knocking it over. 9 Be not so fond as to think, is the language in full. The Poet often omits the adverbs in such cases. Fond, here, is foolish; which was its ordinary sense in Shakespeare's time. 10 Metellus and Caesar here use wrong in different senses. But to hurt, to offend, to cause pain were among its legitimate meanings in Shakespeare's time. So he has it afterwards in this play: It shall advantage more than do us wrong!' And so in several other places; as in Othello, ii. 3: I persuade myself, to speak the truth shall nothing wrong him. To wring and to wrest are from the same root as wrong. See Critical Notes. 11 To repeal from banishment is, in old English, to recall by repealing the sentence. See Richard the Second, page 84, note 8. Bru. I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar; Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may Have an immediate freedom of repeal. Cees. What, Brutus! Cass. Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon: As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall, 5 To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber. Cces. I could be well moved, if I were as you; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:19 But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality 10 There is no fellow in the firmament. The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks, They are all fire, ...

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