The Aldus Shakespeare Volume 33 details from sapnaonline

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1909 Excerpt: ... ACT FOURTH Scene I Without the walls of Athens. Enter Timon. Tim. Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall, That girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth, And fence not Athens Matrons, turn incon-tinent Obedience fail in children Slaves and fools, Pluck the grave wrinkled senate from the bench, And minister in their steads To general filths Convert o' the instant, green virginity Do 't in your parents' eyes Bankrupt, hold fast; Rather than render back, out with your knives, 1-3. We concur with Knight and Verplanek in pointing this passage as it is in the original. All other modern editions, so far as we know, set a period after wolves, thus: "Let me look back upon thee, O thou wall, That girdlest in those wolves. Dire in the earth," etc. As we now give it, Timon first addresses the city generally, and then goes on to the particulars of his imprecation. As Knight remarks, "there is much greater force and propriety in the arrangement which we adopt."--H. N. H. 6. "general filths" means common strumpets: filthiness and obscenity were synonymous with our ancestors.--H. N. H. And cut your trusters' throats Bound servants, steal 10 Large-handed robbers your grave masters are And pill by law. Maid, to thy master's bed Thy mistress is o' the brothel. Son of sixteen, Pluck the lined crutch from thy old limping sire, With it beat out his brains Piety and fear, Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth, Domestic awe, night-rest and neighborhood, Instruction, manners, mysteries and trades, Degrees, observances, customs and laws, Decline to your confounding contraries, 20 And let confusion live Plagues incident to men, iYour potent and infectious fevers heap On Athens, ripe for stroke Thou cold sciatica, Cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt As...