valuable.
(39) pools] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Poles."
(40) resolv'd] i.e. dissolved.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "desolu'd."
(41) Shall we all offer] The 8vo "Shall we offer" (the word "all" having dropt out).--The 4to "WE ALL SHALL offer.(")
(42) in] The 8vo "it."--Omitted in the 4to.
(43) triumph'd] So the 8vo.--The 4to "tryumph."
(44) brave] i.e. splendidly clad.
(45) top] So the 4to.--The 8vo "foot."
(46) mails] i.e. bags, budgets.
(47) lance] So the 4to.--Here the 8vo has "lanch;" but more than once in the SEC. PART of the play it has "lance."
(48) this] So the 8vo.--The 4to "the."--Qy. "Where is this Scythian SHEPHERD Tamburlaine"? Compare the next words of Theridamas.
(49) vaults] Here the 8vo has "vauts,"--"which," says one of the modern editors, "was common in Marlowe's time:" and so it was; but in the SEC. PART of this play, act ii. sc. 4, the same 8vo gives,--
"As we descend into the infernal VAULTS."
(50) thy] So the 8vo.--The 4to "the."
(51) brave] See note † in preceding column.(i.e. note 44.)
(52) renowmed] i.e. renowned.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "renowned." --The form "RENOWMED" (Fr. renomme) occurs repeatedly afterwards in this play, according to the 8vo. It is occasionally found in writers posterior to Marlowe's time. e.g.
"Of Constantines great towne RENOUM'D in vaine." Verses to King James, prefixed to Lord Stirling's MONARCHICKE TRAGEDIES, ed. 1607.
(53) cliffs] So the 8vo.--The 4to "cliftes."
(54) merchants] i.e. merchant-men, ships of trade.
(55) stems] i.e. prows.
(56) vail] i.e. lower their flags.
(57) Bootes] The 8vo "Botees."--The 4to "Boetes."
(58) competitor] i.e. associate, partner (a sense in which the word is used by Shakespeare).
(59) To these] Old eds. "ARE these."
(60) renowmed] See note ||, p. 11.(i.e. note 52.)--So the 8vo. --The 4to "renowned."
(61) statues] So the 4to.--"The first edition reads 'statutes,' but, as the Scythians worshipped Pylades and Orestes in temples, we have adopted the reading of the quarto as being most probably the correct one." Ed. 1826.
(62) kings] So the 8vo.--The 4to "king."
(63) Nor thee nor them] The modern editors silently print "Nor THEY nor THEIRS."
(64) will] So the 8vo.--Omitted in the 4to.
(65) pitch] Is generally equivalent to--stature. ("I would have you tell me what PITCH he was of, Velim mihi dicas qua STATURA fuerit." Coles's DICT.) But here it means the highest part of the body,--the shoulders (see the 10th sign. of PITCH in Halliwell's DICT. OF ARCH. AND PROV. WORDS),--the "pearl" being, of course, his head.
(66) and] So the 4to.--The 8vo "with."
(67) His arms and fingers long and sinewy] So the 8vo, except that, by a misprint, it has "snowy" for "sinewy."--The 4to gives the line thus,--
"His armes long, HIS fingers SNOWY-WHITE."!!
(and so the line used to stand in Lamb's SPEC. OF DRAM. POETS, till I made the necessary alteration in Mr. Moxon's recent ed. of that selection.)
(68) subdu'd] So the 8vo.--The 4to "subdue."
(69) Nature doth strive with Fortune, &c.] Qy did Shakespeare recollect this passage when he wrote,--
"Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great"? KING JOHN, act iii. sc. 1.
(70) port] i.e. gate.
(71) is] So the 8vo.--The 4to "in."
(72) In fair, &c.] Here "fair" is to be considered as a dissyllable: compare, in the Fourth Act of our author's JEW OF MALTA,
"I'll feast you, lodge you, give you FAIR words, And, after that," &c.
(73) of] i.e. on.
(74) worse] So the 8vo.--The 4to "worst."
(75) the] So the 8vo.--The 4to "that."
(76) his] So the 8vo.--The 4to "the."
(77) be] So the 8vo.--The 4to "are."
(78) Beside] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Besides."
(79) champion] i.e. champaign.
(80) greedy after] Old eds. "after greedie."
(81) Sprung] Here, and in the next speech, both the old eds. "Sprong": but in p. 18, l. 3, first col., the 4to has "sprung", and in the SEC. PART of the play, act iv. sc. 4, they both give "SPRUNG from a tyrants loynes."
(Page 18, First Column, Line 3, This Play: "For he was never sprung(118) of human race,")
(82) teeth of] So the 8vo.--Omitted in the 4to.