Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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SCENE II.
&plquo;Pro.
&plquo;Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
&plquo;And ye, that on the sands with printless foot
&plquo;Do chase the ebbing Neptune; and do fly him,
&plquo;When he comes back; you demy-puppets, that
&plquo;By moon-shine do the green sour ringlets make,
&plquo;Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose pastime
&plquo;Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice
&plquo;To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid
&plquo;(Weak masters tho' ye be) 5 note
I have be-dimm'd
&plquo;The noon-tide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
-- 76 --
&plquo;And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault
&plquo;Set roaring war; to the dread ratling thunder
&plquo;Have I giv'n fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak
&plquo;With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd promontory
&plquo;Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluckt up
&plquo;The pine and cedar: graves at my command
&plquo;Have open'd, and let forth their sleepers, wak'd
&plquo;By my so potent art.&prquo; 6 note
But this rough magick
I here abjure; and when I have requir'd
-- 77 --
Some heavenly musick, which ev'n now I do,
(To work mine end upon their senses, that
This airy charm has frail'd;) 7 note
I'll break my staff;
Bury't a certain fadom in the earth;
And deeper than did ever plummet sound,
I'll drown my book.
[Solemn Musick.
Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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