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302 C O R R E C T I O N S A N D 3.1.

161. Like sweet bells., .harsh Cf. Bright, p. 250:
'putting the parts of that most consonant and pleasant
harmony [i.e. the body] out of tune, deliuer a note to the
great discontentment of reason and much against the
mindes will, which intendeth far other then the corporall
instrument effecteth.'

3.2.
37—43. those that play your clowns etc. Dr G. B.
Harrison notes, in a private letter, that one of these jests
is given to Sogliardo, 'the essential Clowne' in Jonson's
Every Man Out of his Humour, 'first acted in the yeere
1599 by the then Lord Chamberlaine his seruants.'
Cf. 1.2.145: 'lie giue coats, that's my humour: but
I lacke a cullisen,' which it seems possible was a glance
at Kempe. N.B. his name does not appear in the list of
'principall comcedians' who acted the play in 1599.
52. just 'Finer than "honest" by all the united
radiancy of classical and Biblical associations, such as
the "vir Justus" of Horace {Odes, 111. iii. 11. 60—66) and
"the path of the just is a shining light" (Prov. iv. 18)'
(Travers).
68. a pipe for Fortune's finger Cf. note on 11. 360-74
below, quoting from North's Plutarch {Life of Pericles)
words which seem to be the germ of both these passages.
71. heart's core N.E.D. \\b suggests 'a play on core
and Latin cor' Cf. 'heart of heart.'
91-2. Excellent.. .capons so Verity has seen the
connexion between this and 1.2.108—109.
133. S.D. Hamlet seems troubled etc. See B. R.
Pearn, Dumb-shows in Elizabethan Drama, R.E.S.
Oct. 1935, and a letter by J. Purves in T.L.S. Sept. 19,
1935. Trench(p.i59n.)alsoadoptsHalliwell's solution.
135. michingmallecho Cf. 1 Rich. / ( I . 2648 Mai.
/
Soc. Reprint): 'Com ye micheing RascalL'
241. let the galled jade wince W. W. Greg para-
phrases (M.L.R. xxxi. 150) 'Let your jade of a wife
show her withers galled.' This would imply that the