A Complete View of the Shakspere Controversy: Concerning the Authenticity ...
A Complete View of the Shakspere Controversy: Concerning the Authenticity ...
Ingleby Clement Mansfield
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Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair T extol what it hath done." In the corrected folio, 1632,** the passage stands "^^ Perkins _ ^ ^ ^ ° gloss. thus: — ** So onr virtues Live in th' interpretation of the time. And power, in itself most commendable, Hath not a tomb so erident as a cheer T extd what it hath done." Mr. R. Grant White was so aiamoured of the Mr. E. G. emendation of cheer, for ^^ chair," that he applied gloss. himself to out-perkins Perkins, and proposed to read the line in which ...that change was made — '^ Hath not a tomb so eloquent as a cheer." ^ Notes and Emendations, Ist ed. p. 361 ; 2nd ed. p. 866. Digitized by Google 150 THE PERKINS FOLIO: Mr. E. Gar- But Mr. Richard Garnett?* proposes to read tongue for ^^ tomb/' wondering' with the reviewer of ^^ The Athenaeum'' for August 20th, 1869, how a tomb can extol. Surely it is the chair which is given to extol what the man of power and virtue has done ! I should not wonder if some fixture Perkins should adopt all three sugg^estions, and instead of ^ Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair/' read, ** Hath not a tongue so eloquent as a cheer P* Meaning of I apprehend no intellig'ent person who reads the gioBs.
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