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'entertain* this interesting 'philosopher' as a member of
die royal household.
77. make (F) subjunctive (Schmidt); see Abbott,
p. 367. Q (+Camb.) 'makes'. S.D. (Cap.) Q om,
78. hundred sc. knights. Promotion indeed!
78-80. I do not like...Persian see'This witty stroke
is fully appreciated if we see that it plays on the last ode of
Horace, Book First: "Persicos odi, puer, apparatus"—
I dislike Persian pomp' (Blunden, op. cit. p. 322). It
was a short ode, prob. well-known to schoolboys then
as now. Cf. 3. 4. 144, n. Sh. gives us the inversion
theme again, leading up to 11. 82-4.
82-4. Make no noise...at noon see Introd. p. xxxii.
8 2-3. curtains i.e. of an imaginary bed. So, so; ( < F)
The word is given three times in Q (+Camb), which
adds it three times again at the end of the speech.
84. And...noon—hxA I'll play the fool. Proverbial;
cf. Tilley, B 197, 'You would make me go to bed at
noon'. The Fool's last words in the play; and all sorts of
meanings have been discovered in them; Blunden, op.
cit. p. 336, finds seven. But critics have been mostly
unaware of the proverbial relevance, which as a reply to
Lear gives all the point required. S.D. (F)—at 1. 80.
87 ff. F concludes the sc. with Glo.'s speech,' Good
friend...quick conduct. Come, come, away', and om.
both Kent's 'Oppressed...behind' and Edg.'s 'When
we...lurk, lurk' which Q supplies.
88. a...death Cf. 3.4.163. upon—against.
95. provision sc. of things needful for your journey.
97. broken sinews shattered nerves.
99. Stand...cure=will be difficult to heal. Cf.
Oth. 2. 1. 50 'my hopes...stand in bold cure'. S.D.
(Theob.)
100. S.D. (Cap. subs.) F 'Exeunt*.
103. Who alone...mind Cf. Tilley, C571; Lucr.
I.790, 'Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage'; Marlowe's