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Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730-1774

"The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith"

59.
l. 95. -----
"'The tripe,' quoth the Jew, etc". The first version
reads --
'Your Tripe!' quoth the 'Jew', 'if the truth I may speak,
I could eat of this Tripe seven days in the week.'
l. 103. -----
"Re-echoed", i.e. 'returned' in the first edition.
l. 104. -----
"thot". This, probably by a printer's error, is
altered to 'that' in the second version. But the first reading
is the more in keeping, besides being a better rhyme.
l. 110. -----
"Wak'd Priam". Cf. 2 'Henry IV', Act I, Sc. 1:--
Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night.
And would have told him half his Troy was burnt.
l. 120. -----
"sicken'd over by learning". Cf. 'Hamlet', Act iii,
Sc. 1:
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is 'sicklied o'er' with the pale cast of thought.


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