Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1
       116 (return) [ him] Old eds. "his."]     

  

       117 (return) [ and] So the 8vo.—The 4to "with."]     

  

       118 (return) [ sprung] See note ||, p. 14.[i.e. note 81.]]     

  

       119 (return) [ dares] So the 8vo.—The 4to "dare."]     

  

       120 (return) [ fate] Old eds.       "state."]     

  

       121 (return) [ Resolve] Seems to mean—dissolve       (compare "our bodies turn to elements," p. 12, sec. col.): but I suspect some corruption here.     

   Page 12, Second Column, This Play:    "TAMBURLAINE. . . . . Until our bodies turn to elements, And both our souls aspire celestial thrones.—"     etc.]] 

  

       122 (return) [ Barbarous] Qy. "O barbarous"? in the next line but one, "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, "O bloody"? But we occasionally find in our early dramatists lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some of these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.]     

  

       123 (return) [ artier] i.e. artery. This form occurs again in the SEC. PART of the present play: so too in a copy of verses by Day;]     

    "Hid in the vaines and ARTIERS of the earthe."         SHAKESPEARE SOC. PAPERS, vol. i. 19. 

       The word indeed was variously written of old:     


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