[1] Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespearegesellschaft, xxv. p. 196; Westminster Review, Feb. 1897.
[2] A. C. Swinburne: Essay on Chapman.
"Patroclus. No more words, Thersites; peace!
"Thersites. I will hold my peace when Achilles' brach bids me, shall I?" (Act ii. sc. i.)
"Thersites. Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by thy talk: thou art thought to be Achilles' male varlet.
"Patroclus. Male varlet, you rogue! What's that?
"Thersites. Why, his masculine whore. Now the rotten diseases of the South, the guts-griping, ruptures, catarrhs, loads o' gravel i' the back, lethargies, cold palsies, raw eyes, dirt rotten livers, wheezing lungs, bladders full of impostume, sciaticas, lime-kilns i' the palm, incurable bone-ache, and the rivalled fee-simple of the tetter, take and take again all such preposterous discoveries." (Act v. sc. 2.)
[4] The expression "by Jove multi potent," Act iv., sc. 5, is taken from Chapman. This is the only time it is used by Shakespeare.
And, like a strutting player, whose conceit
Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage,
Such to be pitied and o'er-wrested seeming
He acts thy greatness in."
And the passage previously quoted from Macbeth:
"Life's but . . . . . a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more."