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198 NOTES 3.1.
read in 1949, though agreeing that 'your* makes
clearer sense. J.D.W. finds 'that fellow' obscure and
harsh before 'That' (1.49) which he conj. the F comp.'s
eye caught.
52. to effect see G. yet— (G.I.D.) £> 'yet:', F
'yet;'.
53-4. in...pain in which business your path lies.
55. S.D.. (G.I.D.) £>, F 'Exeunt.' Theob. 'Exeunt
severally.'

S.D. Loc. (Cap.) 'Storm still' (F) Entry (J.D.W.
<F 'Enter Lear and Foole'). For 'bare-headed' see
3- 1. 14-
1 ff. For this see 'The Poetry of the Storm in King
Lear* by G. W. Williams in £.£>. 11 (1951), 57-71.
And see Introd. p. xxxvi for the germ of the storm in
Leir.
r. blow! (Pope) Q, F 'blow'—read in 1949 ed.,
now withdrawn. G. W. Williams defends Pope in
Stud. Bib. 11 (1949-50), 175-82.
2. cataracts and hurricanoes G. W. Williams (Stud.
Sib. 11,177) claims that Sh. in this passage had in mind
the distinction in Genesis vii. 11 between 'the flood-
gates of heaven' (Douay version <Vulgate 'cataractae')
and 'the fountains of the great deep broken up' =
waterspouts (cf. Troil.$. 2. 171, 'The dreadful spout|
Which shipmen do the hurricano call')—in a word Lear
calls for a second Deluge to overwhelm the Earth.
Cf. 3. 1. 6-7 n., 14, and further in the article noted
on 1 ff.
3. drowned (<Q) F'drown'.
4. thought-executing acting (?killing) as quick as
thought. Cf. Temp. 1. 2. 201-3, 'lightning...sight-
outrunning'; Ham. 1. 5. 29-30, 'swift as meditation';
2 H. IF, 4. 3. 34, 'the expedition of thought'.