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[ stature] See note |||, p. 27.—So the 8vo.—The 4to "statue." Here the metre would be assisted by reading "statua," which is frequently found in our early writers: see my REMARKS ON MR. COLLIER'S AND MR. KNIGHT'S EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE, p. 186.
[note |||, from p. 27. (The First Part of Tamburlaine the
Great):
"stature] So the 8vo.—The 4to "statue:" but again, in the
SECOND PART of this play, act ii. sc. 4, we have, according
to the 8vo—
"And here will I set up her STATURE."
and, among many passages that might be cited from our
early authors, compare the following;
"The STATURES huge, of Porphyrie and costlier matters
made."
Warner's ALBIONS ENGLAND, p. 303. ed. 1596.
"By them shal Isis STATURE gently stand."
Chapman's BLIND BEGGER OF ALEXANDRIA, 1598, sig. A 3.
"Was not Anubis with his long nose of gold preferred
before Neptune, whose STATURE was but brasse?"
Lyly's MIDAS, sig. A 2. ed. 1592.">[
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[ Soria] See note ?, p. 44. [i.e. note 13.]
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[ fate] So the 8vo.—The 4to "fates.">[
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[ his] Old eds. "our.">[
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[ all] So the 8vo.—Omitted in the 4to.]