Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2

309 (return (#x5_x_5_i204))

[ Terrene] i.e. Mediterranean.]

310 (return (#x5_x_5_i215))

[ began] So the 8vo.—The 4to "begun."]

311 (return (#x5_x_5_i218))

[ this] So the 8vo.—The 4to "the."]

312 (return (#x5_x_5_i235))

[ subjects] Mr. Collier (Preface to COLERIDGE'S SEVEN LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON, p. cxviii) says that here "subjects" is a printer's blunder for "substance": YET HE TAKES NO NOTICE OF TAMBURLAINE'S NEXT WORDS, "But, sons, this SUBJECT not of force enough," &c.—The old eds. are quite right in both passages: compare, in p. 62, first col.;

"A form not meet to give that SUBJECT essence Whose matter is the flesh of Tamburlaine," &c.]

313 (return (#x5_x_5_i241))

[ into] So the 8vo.—The 4to "vnto."]

314 (return (#x5_x_5_i244))

[ your seeds] So the 8vo.—The 4to "OUR seedes." (In p. 18, first col., [The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great] we have had "Their angry SEEDS"; but in p. 47, first col., [this play] "thy seed":—and Marlowe probably wrote "seed" both here and in p. 18.)]

315 (return (#x5_x_5_i259))

[ lineaments] So the 8vo.—The 4to "laments."—The Editor of 1826 remarks, that this passage "is too obscure for ordinary comprehension."]

316 (return (#x5_x_5_i272))

[ these] So the 4to.—The 8vo "those."]

317 (return (#x5_x_5_i273))

[ these] So the 4to.—The 8vo "those."]

318 (return (#x5_x_5_i278))

[ damned] i.e. doomed,—sorrowful.]

319 (return (#x5_x_5_i304))

[ Clymene's] So the 8vo.—The 4to "Clymeus."]

320 (return (#x5_x_5_i305))

[ Phoebe's] So the 8vo.—The 4to "Phoebus."]

321 (return (#x5_x_5_i310))

[ Phyteus'] Meant perhaps for "Pythius'", according to the usage of much earlier poets:

"And of PHYTON[i.e. Python] that Phebus made thus fine Came Phetonysses," &c.

Lydgate's WARRES OF TROY, B. ii. SIG. K vi. ed. 1555.]

Here the modern editors print "Phoebus'".]

322 (return (#x5_x_5_i313))

[ thee] So the 8vo.—The 4to "me."]

323 (return (#x5_x_5_i314))

[ cliffs] Here the old eds. "clifts" and "cliftes": but see p. 12, line 5, first col.

[p. 12, first col.  (The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great):

"Both we will walk upon the lofty cliffs;*

* cliffs: So the 8vo.—The 4to "cliftes."]

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