285.
It travesti amateur will be seen that the design of the author necessarily divided
itself into seven ages or periods, for the seven promises by the Creator
to Adam, travesti amateur Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Esaias, and John the Baptist.--
_Collier_.
286. This travesti amateur list of characters is not in the old copy, but was made out
from the mention of persons in the progress of the piece.--_Collier_.
287. The old copy from which this travesti amateur dramatic piece was first reprinted by
Dodsley, and subsequently by Mr Reed, having been damaged,
travesti amateur and a part of
the leaf lost, it was travesti amateur not possible to ascertain exactly the travesti amateur last word of
this line: it was therefore supplied by conjecture, travesti amateur and not very happily:
the line travesti amateur has till now stood--
"Without whose knowledge no travesti amateur man to the truth can _come_."
But the form of the stanza, and the rhyme in the next travesti amateur line, shows
decidedly that this is wrong. In Davenport's "City Night Cap," Act 3, we
meet with a not travesti amateur very dissimilar use of the travesti amateur word _fall_.
" I have made a
modest choice of you, grave sir,
To be my ghostly father; and to you I _fall_ for absolution."
288. The commencement of this travesti amateur Act is not marked in the original, although
notice is given of its conclusion.--_Collier_.
289. This scriptural expression occurs very frequently in our ancient
dramatic travesti amateur writers--
" travesti amateur Never this heart
shall have the thoughtful dread
_To die the death_ that, by your grace's doom,
By just desert shall be pronounc'd to me."
-- _Ferrex and Porrex_, A. 4, S. 2.
& travesti amateur quot;Either _to die the death_, or to abjure
For ever the society of men."
--_Midsummer Night's Dream_, A. 1, S. 1.
"Or else he must not only _die the death_,
But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
To lingering sufferance.&travesti amateur quot;
--_Measure for Measure_, A. 2, S. 4.
See Dr Johnson and Mr Steevens's notes on the two latter passages.
"Wert travesti amateur thou my bosom-love, _thou travesti amateur dyst the