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56. valued rich (Q) F (+Camb.) 'valewed, rich'.
valued— estimated. Cf. Err. 1.1. 24 [Muir].
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60. Beyond... so much" Beyond comparison of
any kind. Inverted commas ours.
61. Pope's 'aside', speak (F) Q (+Camb.) 'do'.
'She first asks herself what she shall say; then gently but
firmly stills the question with two commands to herself
(ed. 1949). Love...silent Tilley, L 165,cites Gent. 2. 2.
16: 'What, gone without a word? | Ay, so true love
should do: it cannot speak; | For truth hath better deeds
than words to grace it'—a perfect comment.
62. S.D. (edd.).
63-4. F puncts. 'forrests,...rich'd...Riuers,. .
Meades'.
65. issues (F) Q (+Camb.) 'issue'. The plur.
suggests successive heirs. Cf. 'seeds' Macb. (reprint
New Shakespeare) 3. 1. 69, and Paul, The Royal Play
of Macbeth, p. 176, n.
67. o/(F) Q (+Camb.) 'to'. After Cornwall? £>
(+Camb.) has 'speake'; but this may anticipate 1. 85.
Cf. the metrically incomplete 1. 53.
68. metal see G.
69. prize me=va.hie myself. K. takes 'prize' as
imperative. 70. deed see G. 71. that=in that.
73. spirit of sense (J.D.W. <Han.) F, Q 'square
of sense' (Q 'sence')—a common error (see p. 139).
Edd. explain 'square' (///. a carpenter's measure) as
fig. 'criterion, estimate', citing no parallel. But see
Trail. 1.1.60; 3. 3. 106, where 'spirit of sense'= 'the
essence of sensibility' (On.) and see G. 'spirit'. The
word 'spirit' or 'sprite' might be misread 'square'.
possesses (Q) F 'professes', repetition from 1. 71.
77, More ponderous (¥+Camb.) Q(+many)'More
richer'—'prob. an inexact memorial anticipation of
11. 249, 229-30 (see 1949 ed. pp. 28-30). 'Perhaps
suggested by "metal" (1. 68). Cordelia cannot "coin.