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170 NOTES 1.4.
252. know...you i.e. know how to behave and
recognize that you are an old man whose foibles should
not be encouraged. Note the ironical echo of 1.1. 291.
257. S.D. (F). 258. Woe that=woe to him who.
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O...come? <Q O sir, are you come?' F om. The
'sir' [in Q] may be anticipated from 1. 258; the metre
wd. be better without it; cf. 1. 204, n. [G.I.D],
J.D.W. leaves it out; two 'sirs' being ill-suited to Lear's
anger. 263. S.D. (Rowe).
267. worships For the plur. see Franz, Sh. Grant'
matik, §680.
269. Which (F) Q(+Camb.)'that\ engine seeG.
frame of nature=natural affection, thought of as- a
structure or building. See G. 'nature (v)'.
270. From...place i.e. from its foundation or centre
(i.e. Cord.) Cf. Rom. 2.1. 2. As the centre of the earth
was the only 'fixed place' in the macrocosm, so was
Cord, in 'his little world of man' (3.i.10).
272. S.D. (Pope) Q, F om.
273. S.D. (G.I.D.) Q, F om., and edd. ex. AL
Cf. 1. 311, S.D., n.
276 ff. Hear, Nature etc. Garrick, falling upon his
knees and with eyes uplifted, uttered this as a solemn
prayer. See Sprague, p. 286.
276. Hear...hear! (punct. G.I.D. <F+Cap.) F
'Heare Nature, heare deere Goddesse, heare:'; Q
'harke Nature, heare deere Goddesse,'. Most edd.
(<Theob.) 'Hear, Nature, hear; dear goddess, hear!'
(or so subs.). F may inherit.faulty punc. from Q; but
not necessarily so.
283. spleen see G.
284. disnatured without filial affection.
287. pains cares.
289. How...tooth Cf. Ps. cxi. 3: 'They have sharp-
ened their tongues like a serpent.' [Mai.]
290. S.D. (G.I.D.) F 'Exit.', £> om.