User:Sbh/Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes (critical edition)/Scene xi

Explanatory Notes

 * Neronis: Perhaps Neronis should be represented reading from a book. Lines 1-10 would in that case be the poem which she reads. After closing the book she proceeds to apply the verses to her own fortunes.—Cf. Lord Vaux’s poem in the Paradise of Dainty Devices, “How can the tree but waste and wither away,” &c.


 * vades: decays, withers.


 * force: Does it mean regard, or urge?—Dyce. If there is no corruption, “force” must have the (not unusual) meaning—regard, take heed of. But qy. “forge” (i.e. imagine)?—Bullen


 * bruit of fame: report of fame,—person celebrated by fame.—Dyce


 * allegate: allege


 * Because: Qy. “’Cause”?—Dyce.


 * came: Here Q has “cam”: but in [scene vii] and [scene x] it has “came” as the rhyme to “am.”—Dyce


 * prest: ready, intent


 * break: open, disclose.—Dyce


 * propound: proposition—Dyce. Dr. Nicholson takes “propound” as = propounded.—But cf. l. 72 [“Now answer me directly here upon this my propound”.]—Bullen.


 * depraves: deprives


 * If case I will, what have you shown?: This line and the next are obscure. “What have you shown?” means (I suppose) “How have you given proof of your love?” Clyomon parries the question—“[I have been unable to give proof] because my vow forbids me to disclose my name and rank. You are a king’s daughter and I am a nameless wandering knight.”  (But the text is perhaps corrupt.)—Bullen


 * let: hindrance.