User:Sbh/Clyomon1/Scene i

Explanatory Notes

 * waltering: weltering.


 * Clamydes: Sometimes the name is to be pronounced (as here) “Clămīděs,” at other times “Clāmĭdēs.”—Bullen.


 * joys: Q reads “ioyes”—which Dr. Brinsley Nicholson takes to be “joyess.” (“Joys” is to be pronounced as a dissyllable.—There is no difficulty with the “it” in the next line; for, as Dyce remarks “our early writers sometimes apply ‘it’ to a preceding plural substantive.”)—Bullen.


 * safety: A trisyllable here: see Walker’s Shakespeare’s Versification, &c., p. 158.—Dyce.


 * For why: (a frequently recurring expression) = because. In Q "For why" is printed as part of the following line. It is difficult to deal with such extra-metrical words.—Bullen.


 * bearing lesser brain: "Bearing lesser brain" is curious and not very intelligible. The common expression "bear a brain" meant—be attentive, be wary. Perhaps in the present passage we might read "bearing better brain" (unless the corruption lies in the word "brain").—Bullen.