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 IV.
Wol.
What should this mean?
&plquo;What sudden anger's this? how have I reap'd it?
&plquo;He parted frowning from me, as if ruin
&plquo;Leap'd from his eyes. So looks the chafed lion
&plquo;Upon the daring huntsman, that has gall'd him;
&plquo;Then makes him nothing. I must read this paper:&prquo;
I fear, the story of his anger—'tis so—
This paper has undone me—'tis th' account
Of all that world of wealth I've drawn together
For mine own ends; indeed, to gain the Popedom,
And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence,
Fit for a fool to fall by! What cross devil
Made me put this main secret in the packet
I sent the King? is there no way to cure this?
No new device to beat this from his brains?
I know, 'twill stir him strongly; yet I know
A way, if it take right, in spight of fortune
Will bring me off again. What's this—To the Pope?
The letter, as I live, with all the business
I writ to's Holiness. Nay, then farewel;
I've touch'd the highest point of all my Greatness;
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting. &plquo;I shall fall,
&plquo;Like a bright exhalation in the evening;
&plquo;And no man see me more.&prquo;
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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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