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17. judgement 'In the Biblical sense (cf. Ps. i. )...
Kent means that he fears God' (Noble, p. 229).
18. eat no fish i.e. he is either no papist (Warb.) or
'a jolly fellow, and no lover of such meagre diet as fish'
(Cap.). For a poss. indelicate quibble see Rom. G.
'fish'. 28. countenance see G.
33-4. mar...telling it <prov. 'A good tale ill told
is marred in the telling' (Tilley, T 28).
41-2. me. If ...dinner I (most edd. subs.) Q, F
punc. ambiguously 'me, if...dinner, I'.
43. knave boy.
44. S.D. (i) <Dyce,'Exit an Attendant.' Q,Fom.
(ii) <Q, F 'Enter Steward' (at 1. 38)—we place as
Cap.
46. S.D. (G.I.D.) Q, Fom.
46-7. So please you=Excuse me; I'm busy. Cf. 1.3.
13-14. you— (F). S.D. F 'Exit.', Q om.
49-50. S.D.'s (after Dyce) Q, F om.
52. daughter (Q) F 'Daughters'.
69. most faint As Lear, the self-deceiver, still sees it
though the Knight (1. 61) finds it 'great'.
76. well(F) Qom.
77-8. S.D.s (after Dyce) Q, F om.
78. S.D. i(<F'Enter Steward.'at I.79) We place
i
as J. Q om.
81,83. S.D.s (G.I.D.+J.D.W.) Q, Fom.
81-2. (G.I.D.S punct.) Camb.'Mylady's father!
my Lord's knave: you whoreson dog! you slave! you
cur!'. F 'My Ladies Father? my Lords knaue, you
whorson dog, you slaue, you curre.'
81. my lord's i.e. Alb.'s.
86. strucken(F) Q (+Camb.) 'struck*.
87. base Cf. Elyot (Governour, 1531, Everyman
Lib. p. 113) 'Foote balle' is 'to be utterly abiected of al
noble men...wherin is nothinge but beastly furie and
extreme violence' Q.C.M.]. S.D. (Rowe) Q, F om.