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The Shakespeare-Expositor

by Thomas Keightley

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Act IV Sc. 3

“Yet there he was, and there I found this credited.”

So it is in the folio, with the omission of the last letter, which had either been effaced in the MS. or was left out by the printer. Mason seems also to have seen the truth: yet no one followed him!


“That my most jealous and too doubtful soul
May live at peace. He shall conceal it,
Whiles you are willing it shall come to note.”

The second line is imperfect. In my Edition I added still (printed, or perhaps written, till), and we might also read closely or truly, i.e. faithfully. ‘Whiles’ is to be understood as till whiles. (See Index s. v.) We might also end the line with it, and begin the next with That; as while and whiles that occur in Chaucer, Golding, and others.

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