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19a NOTES a.4.

148. her.(F) Q(+Camb.)'herSir?\
149. the house Either=our family, or the royal
house of Britain. 150. S.D: (J.). QFom.
154. S.D. (Coll.) Q,Fom.
159. young bones=xmbom child. Muir cites Leir 844
'poore soul she breeds yong bones'; Tourneur, Atheist's
Tragedy, iv, iii, 172; and Ford, Broken Heart 11, 1.
160. takingsblasting.
164. blister her! (Muir; Sisson) F 'blister.'. Q
(+Camb.)'blast her pride.'. Coll.'blast her'. G.I.D.
(1949 ed.) 'blister her pride' now withdrawn in favour
of Schmidt's conj. 'blister pride'. J.C.M. conj.
'blister—' (with Reg. interrupting), J.D.W. feels
'blister her' is the most likely: it completes the verse line,
while in correcting Q the collator may well have written
'blister' for 'blast' and inadvertently deleted 'her' as
well as'pride*. After 'beauty' (1.162) 'pride' (=beaury)
is unnecessary. Cf. Temp. 1. 2. 324, 'A south west
blow on ye And blister you all over' and 2. 2.1-2.
165. the rash mood Cf. 1.1. 292-3. mood— (<Q)
'Lear is plainly impetuous and breaks in upon Regan'
(Sisson). Camb. 'mood is on* <F 'moods is on.',
corruption induced by 'on me' earlier in the line.
167. tender-hefted (F) =complaisant; lit. easily
handled (heft=haft). A Sh. coinage, because 'haft'
suggests 'knife', symbol of Reg.'s true nature.
178. S.D. <F'Tucket within.'(1.177). We place
as Coll.
180. S.D. g, F 'Enter Steward.' (1.178). We place
as Dyce.
181. easy-borrowed (Theob.'s hyphen) ='borrowed
without the .trouble of doing anything to justify it'
(Moberly, ap. Furn.). J.D.W. takes as particularly a
ref. to Osw.'s clothes. Cf. 1. 3. S.D. (head); 2. 2.
14-15, n.
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182. sickly (G.I.D. F 3;withdrawingn.in 1949