Thursday, March 24, 2022
A Warning to Commentators
William Shakespeare, King Lear. Edited by Kenneth Muir (1972; rpt. London: Routledge, 1993), p. 120 (editor's note on III.iv.179-181):
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Cf. Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, 1596 (ed. McKerrow, III.37): 'O, tis a precious apothegmaticall Pedant, who will finde matter inough to dilate a whole daye of the first inuention of Fy, fa, fum, I smell the bloud of an Englishman.' Nashe's words could serve as a warning to commentators.
