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THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE GENERAL EDITOR: W. CRAIG J. 1899-1906: R. H. CASE, 1909 THE TRAGEDY OP ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA EDITED BY CASE R. H. } FtmrthBdiiioti. \ y^ r METHUEN AND CO. LTD. ESSEX STREET STRAND 36 : LONDON First Published SecondEdition Third Edition Fourth Edition PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION^ Apart from the addition and enlargement of notes in the Appendices, the new matter in this edition is confined towhat follows on the verb plurals which end like singulars in -th and -J, and which are alluded to in the Introduction, p. vii, as re- stored in the text, where they appear (with illustrations in the notes) in I. ii. 120 ; L iv. 21, 49; HI. i. 29?; III. vi. 22, 78, 88. Though Abbott treated these inflexions as probably sur- vivals of old Southern and Northern plurals respectively, in A Shakesperian Grammar paragraphs 333-8, and with some y fulness, they are not always respected by modern editors, and are not referred to in connection with the identical singular inflexions, or the old Midland plural in -en, in the chapter on "Shakespeare's English" in the two large volumes of Shake- speare's England issued last year by the Clarendon Press. Hence it does not seem superfluous to stress again this ap- parent survival or surviving influence^ of old forms, if it is desirable to despise no detail of Elizabethan language, to tamper with the words of original texts as little as possible, and to retain distinctions on which the sense ofa passage may sometimes depend. The position will be unchanged whether the forms in question are rightly explained as survivals or are found to have otherwise arisen. It is of course likely, and occasionally demonstrable, that either inflexion is sometimes singular in spite of its plural subject, whether ungrammatically, or in some of the cases where singularity may have been suggested because a relative intervenes between subject and verb, or because the subject is a collective noun or thought of as such, or because the verb precedes the plural subject or the subject consists of two singular nouns. The effect, for instance, of an intervening relative may be seen in a different case, where it attracts the verb into the third person, as in: " Should I seeke life thaAt finds no place of rest" (T. Churchyard, Chippes, 1565, ^Tbe only changes in this fourth edition are: (i) additions in notes on IV..iii.i.6211,6p,.A1p3p;.IL.,ivp..2210,8p;.(229);aiiria.thieiir. 3f3u,lleArppt.reIa.t,mpe.nt20o6f;Saednldeya'sneAnwtonnotyeaonnd Cleopatrain Introduction,p. xxv. in'52"ItthiastpienrdhuacpesdwthhaeteAqbubaoltltyccaolmlsmo"naugseeneorfalispraenddilewcatsio(nwhfoirchthceouinlfdlencetvieorn havebeenpluralsatall) afterpluralsubjects. i PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION ii Tragicall Discourse^ etc., st. 90), and in an apposite case in "So we must change as checking chaunces falls^ Who tosseth men about like tennis Balls. This chaunce is *she,'" etc. {ib. stanzas 52-3). But all the doubtful casesenumerated above might be left out ofthe question. Without the intervening relative, as well as with it, both the ending in -x, and the ending in -th in the verbs have (hath) and do (doth) are too common after plural subjects to need further illustration than the notes already provide. In other verbs than have and do, however, the latter ending seldom occurs, and hence the following examples of cases (tf) with and without the relative, {b) with two—singular nouns or one plural noun as subject, are added here: "the ioyes w<* in Christewe obtayne \C\onsisteth in true louing children and wife" etc. (Mtsogonus, 1577, i. 11. 46, 47. Early Plays fromthe Italian, ed. Bond, 1911, p. 177). "Wher-by I see, that olde men are not vnlyke vnto olde Trees, whose barkes seemeth to be sound, when their bodies are rotten" (Lyly, Euphues andhis England, 1580, ed. Arber, p. 231). "And as the hurtand damagegreeueth all men," etc. {TheBooke ofSir Thomas Moore, 1592?, 1. 88, p. 4. Malone Soc. Reprint). "When calmie skyes, sayth bitter stormes are past," etc. (T. Churchyard, The Worthines of Wales, 1587, Reprint 1776, p. 128). "Calling the same booke a mirror ofman (though many mirrors excelleth this) that shews," etc (T. Churchyard, The MirrorofMan, 1594, in dedication). "Meddlenotwith matters, thatpasseth thy powre," etc. (i<J.,text, 1. 165). "So manyAprinces now there are That loueth Poetrie well" (T. Churchyard, Praise ofPoetrie, 1595, st. 28). "the evidences . . . which they unjustly detayneth," etc. (Grosart's Spenser, vol. ii., p. 556, from "Original Petition [of Sylvanus Spenser, 1603] in H.M. Public Records, Dublin"). "but it is the surfeits of peace that bringeth in the Phisitians gaine," etc. (B. Rich, The Honestie of the Age, 1614. Percy Soc. Reprint, p. 21). "the mind is oppressed with idle thoughts which spurreth on the tongue to contentious quarrelling," etc. {ib., p. 54). I have to thank Professor H. C. Wyld of the University of Liverpool for the example from Lyly's Euphues, and for others which I do not cite from earlier writers, such as Lord Berners, Sir Thomas Elyot, and Hugh Latimer.

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(2) a rather fuller treatment of Sedley's Antony and. Cleopatra in Introduction, p. xxv. 2 It is perhaps what Abbott calls "a general predilection for the
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