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[ the city-walls) So the 8vo.—The 4to "the walles.">[
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[ him] So the 4to.—The 8vo "it.">[
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[ in] Old eds. "VP in,[">[—the "vp" having been repeated by mistake from the preceding line.]
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[ scar'd] So the 8vo; and, it would seem, rightly; Tamburlaine making an attempt at a bitter jest, in reply to what the Governor has just said.—The 4to "sear'd.">[
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[ Vile] The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds., a little before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":— the fact is, our early writers (or rather, transcribers), with their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, and now the other: compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")]