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The Shakespeare-Expositor

by Thomas Keightley

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Act IV Sc. 1

“Out on thee, seeming! I will write against it,
You seem to me as Dian in her orb.”

For ‘thee’ we should, I think, read thy or this, as they were pronounced alike, and for ‘seem’ seem’d, for the same reason.’ (See Introd. p. 52.) Pope also read thy, and Hanmer seem’d.


“But if all aim but this be levell’d false.”

I would read in; for ‘but,’ suggested by ‘But,’ makes nonsense. I have, however, made no change in my Edition.

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