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Page 12, Second Column, This Play: "TAMBURLAINE. . . . .Until our bodies turn to elements, And both our souls aspire celestial thrones.--"etc.]][Footnote 122: Barbarous] Qy. "O barbarous"? in the next line but one, "O treacherous"? and in the last line of the speech, "O b.l.o.o.d.y"?But we occasionally find in our early dramatists lines which are defective in the first syllable; and in some of these instances at least it would almost seem that nothing has been omitted by the transcriber or printer.][Footnote 123: artier] i.e. artery. This form occurs again in the SEC.PART of the present play: so too in a copy of verses by Day;]"Hid in the vaines and ARTIERS of the earthe."SHAKESPEARE SOC. PAPERS, vol. i. 19.The word indeed was variously written of old: "The ARTER strynge is the conduyt of the lyfe spiryte."Hormanni VULGARIA, sig. G iii. ed. 1530."Riche treasures serue for th'ARTERS of the war."Lord Stirling's DARIUS, act ii. Sig. C 2. ed. 1604."Onelye the extrauagant ARTIRE of my arme is brused."EVERIE WOMAN IN HER HUMOR, 1609, sig. D 4."And from the veines some bloud each ARTIRE draines."Davies's MICROCOSMOS, 1611, p. 56.][Footnote 124: regiment] i.e. rule.][Footnote 125: fruit] So the 4to.--The 8vo "fruites."][Footnote 126: are] Old eds. "Is."][Footnote 127: talents] Was often used by our early writers for TALONS, as many pa.s.sages might be adduced to shew. Hence the quibble in Shakespeare's LOVE'S LABOUR