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ACT II. · Section 24
Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners:: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on a Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris dance. · Francis Douce
ACT II.
SCENE 1. Page 77.
BRU. The _napless_ vesture of humility.
"The players read the _Naples_," says Mr. Steevens; but the players are right, and the fault was with the printer in giving the word with a capital letter. The termination _less_ in old books is very frequently spelled with a single _s_; so that Mr. Rowe's change scarcely deserves the name of _a correction_.
ACT IV.
SCENE 1. Page 159.
COR. I shall be lov'd when I am lack'd.
Thus Cæsar in _Antony and Cleopatra_, Act I. Scene 4, "And the ebb'd man comes dear'd by being lack'd." We have still preserved this proverbial saying in another form. Mother Cole says, "When people are miss'd, then they are mourn'd." It is, in fact, Horace's "extinctus amabitur idem."
JULIUS CÆSAR.