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'hidden' treasure is guarded by fairies and that they make
it multiply miraculously in the possession of the dis-
coverer'; cf. Wint. 3. 3. 117-18, and n.
32. ye (F) Q(+Camb.)'you\
33-4. Why...it. Cap.'s'Aside'. Colloquial syntax.
34. S.D. (Q) F om.
39. snuff see G. nature=human life.
39-40. should...out sc. like a stinking, spluttering
candle-end. What a picture of the old age that Sh. him-
self never reached!
41. S.D. (Camb.+K.) £> He fals.'; F om.
'
42-8. Cap.'s asides.
42-4. And...theft i.e. 'And yet Glo.'s merely
imagining that he is dying may be enough to kill him,
since he has no desire to stay alive'—a sequ el to 11. 3 3-4.
46. sir...speak (punct. Camb.) F'Sir: Friend, hear
you, Sir, speake:'.
49. gossamer (Campbell) Q'gozsmore', F'Goze-
more', Pope 'goss'mer'. 50. F's brackets.
53.' at each=one on top of another.
54. fell= fallen. See Abbott, § 344.
57. summit (Rowe, ed. 11) F'Somnet'; cf.Ham.i,
4. 70 (Q 2) 'the dreadfull somnet of the cleefe'.
58. a-height Theob.'s hyphen, shrill-gorged seeG.
'gorged'; cf. Ham. 1. 1. 151, 'shrill sounding throat'.
63. tyrant's F 'Tyranrs'.
66-7. strangeness. Upon...what (punct. Camb.) F
'strangeness, Vpon...o'th'Cliffe. What'.
71. whelked (Han.) F 'wealk'd'—a spelling, en-
ridg/d(Q) F 'enraged', poss. minim error; see 1949 ed.
p. 182.
72. father=old man. Edg. may take 'comfort in
thus addressing Glo.' (K.).
73-4. make...impossibilities- acquire honour by
working miracles. Cf. Luke xviii. 27; Tilley, M 471,
'Man's extremity is God's opportunity*.