Chapter XXXIV: Appendix: F

THE “INEXPLICABLE” PASSAGE IN _CORIOLANUS_

Coleridge, in his _Notes on Shakespeare_ (1818, Section IV.), calls attention to the difficulty of Aufidius’ speech to his lieutenant:

All places yield to him ere he sits down;
And the nobility of Rome are his:
The senators and patricians love him too:
The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people
Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty
To expel him thence. I think he’ll be to Rome
As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it
By sovereignty of nature. First he was
A noble servant to them; but he could not
Carry his honours even: whether ’twas pride,
Which out of daily fortune ever taints
The happy man; whether defect of judgement,
To fail in the disposing of those chances
Which he was lord of; or whether nature,
Not to be other than one thing, not moving
From the casque to the cushion, but commanding peace
Even with the same austerity and garb
As he controll’d the war; but one of these—
As he hath spices of them all, not all,
For I dare so far free him—made him fear’d,
So hated, and so banish’d, but he has a merit,
To choke it in the utterance. So our virtues
Lie in the interpretation of the time;
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.
Come, let’s away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,
Thou art poor’st of all: then shortly art thou mine.
(IV. vii. 28.)

Here there are puzzling expressions in detail, but they have on the whole been satisfactorily explained, and it is not to them that Coleridge refers.[309] He says: “I have always thought this in itself so beautiful speech the least explicable from the mood and full intention of the speaker of any in the whole works of Shakespeare.” It strikes one indeed as a series of disconnected jottings that have as little to do with each other as with the situation and attitude of Aufidius. First he gives reason for expecting the capture of Rome; then he enumerates defects in Coriolanus that have led to his banishment with a supplementary acknowledgment of his merits; next he makes general reflections on the relation of virtue to the construction put upon it, and on the danger that lies in conspicuous power: thereafter he points out that things are brought to nought by themselves or their likes; and finally he predicts that when Rome is taken, he will get the better of his rival.

[309] Of these the most perplexing to me is the distinction Shakespeare makes between “the nobility” on the one hand, and “the senators and patricians” on the other. What was in his mind? I fail to find an explanation even on trying to render his thought in terms of contemporary arrangements in England. “Peers,” “parliament men,” and “gentry” would not do.

Is there here a mere congeries of thoughts as one chance suggestion leads to another with which it happens to be casually associated; or does one thread of continuous meaning run through the whole? I would venture to maintain the latter opinion with more confidence than I do, if Coleridge had not been so emphatic.

In the first place we have to remember what goes before. The report of the Lieutenant confirms the jealousy of Aufidius, who is further embittered by the hint that he is losing credit, but reflects that he can bring weighty charges against Coriolanus, and concludes:

He hath left undone
That which shall break his neck or hazard mine,
Whene’er we come to our account.

Thereupon the Lieutenant meaningly rejoins:

Sir, I beseech you, think you he’ll carry Rome?

It is a contingency to be reckoned with, for clearly if Rome falls, any previous mistakes or complaisances alleged against the conqueror will find ready pardon. So Aufidius discusses the matter in the light of these two main considerations: (1) that he must get rid of his rival, and (2) that his rival may do the state a crowning service. He admits that Coriolanus, what with his own efficiency, what with the friendliness of one class in Rome and the helplessness of the remainder, is likely to achieve the grand exploit. How then will Aufidius’ chances stand? Formerly Marcius deserved as well of his own country when he had overthrown Corioli, yet that did not secure him. What qualities in himself discounted his services to Rome and may again discount his services to Antium? Pride of prosperity, disregard of his opportunities, his unaccommodating peremptory behaviour—all of these faults which in point of fact afterwards contributed to his death—brought about his banishment, though truly he had merit enough to make men overlook such trifles. This shows how worth depends on the way it is taken, and how ability, even when of the sterling kind that wins its own approval, may find the throne of its public recognition to be, more properly, its certain grave. Thus likes counteract likes; the greater the popularity, the greater the reaction; the greater the superiority, the more certainly it will balk itself. So, and this is the conclusion of the whole matter, even when Marcius has won Rome by a greater conquest than when he won Corioli, the result will be the same. His proud, imprudent and overbearing conduct will obscure his high deserts. These will be construed only by public opinion, and the very prowess in which he delights will rouse an adulation, which, when he is no longer required, will swing round to its opposite. So his success will correct itself. His very triumph over Rome will be guarantee for Aufidius’ triumph over him.

If this amplified paraphrase give the meaning, that meaning is coherent enough and is quite suitable to the mood and attitude of the speaker.

INDEX

Acciaiuoli, additional lives to Plutarch, _note_ 144.
Agrippa (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 346.
Alexander (Sir William) [Earl of Stirling],
_Julius Caesar_, 35;
_Julius Caesar_ compared with Garnier, 39;
_Julius Caesar_ and Shakespeare, 207.
Alexas (Lord), (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 348.
Ammonius (the Philosopher), 95.
Amyot (Jacques), 119-141;
birth, etc., 120;
translation of Heliodorus, 121;
of Diodorus Siculus, 123;
and Longus, 124;
tutor to Dukes of Orleans and Anjou, 124;
Grand Almoner of France, 124;
Bishop of Auxerre, 125;
Commander of Order of Holy Ghost, 126;
various disasters, 126;
_Projet de l’Eloquence Royal_, 128;
modifications of Plutarch, 138.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, 300-453;
date of composition, 300;
and Appian, 648-652.
Antony and Cleopatra (the two characters), 439-453.
_Apius and Virginia_, 2-10, 70.
Appian and _Antony and Cleopatra_, 648-652;
and _Julius Caesar_, 644-647.
Appian’s Chronicle, translated by Bynniman, _note_ 644;
_Sextus Pompeius_, 333.
Aufidius (Tullus), [in _Coriolanus_], 501, 584.

B. (R.), 2, 9.
Baker, _Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist_, _note_ 267.
Bernage (S.), on _Julius Caesar_ and _Cornélie_, 60.
Berners (Lord), part translation, Guevara (Antonio de),
_Marco Aurelio con el Relox de Principes_, 148.
Bidpai, Fables of, 150.
Blignières (Auguste de), _Essai on Amyot_, 119.
Blount (Edward), a printer, 300.
Boas (F. S.), _Shakespeare and his Predecessors_, 426.
Boner (Hieronymus), version of Plutarch’s _Lives_, _note_ 132.
Boswell (James), quotation from Plutarch, 116.
Bower (Richard), ? author of a _New Tragicall Comedie
of Apius and Virginia_, 2.
Bradley (A. C.), on the Roman Plays, 80;
_Julius Caesar_, _note_ 267;
Shakesperian atmosphere after _Othello_ and _Lear_, 305;
_Antony and Cleopatra_, _note_ 312;
_Coriolanus_, 462.
Brandes (Dr. George), _Julius Caesar_, _note_ 217;
on Tieck’s Dramas (in _Romantic School in Germany_), _note_ 280;
_Antony and Cleopatra_, 307;
_Coriolanus_, 464 and 466.
Brandl (Professor Alois), _Coriolanus_, 464.
Brandon (Samuel), _Vertuous Octavia_, 71.
Brontë (Charlotte), on _Coriolanus_, 468, 472.
Brooke (Lord), _Antony and Cleopatra_—destroyed tragedy on, 70.
Buchanan (George), _Baptistes_ and _Jephthes_, 21.
Butler (Professor), on _Appius and Virginia_, _note_ 9.
Büttner, _Zu Coriolan und seiner Quelle_, 488.

_Caesar’s Fall_, a play by Drayton, Webster and others, 170.
Calvin (John), prose of, 135.
Camden (William), _Remaines_, 455.
Caractacus, Elizabethan Plays on, 1.
Carlyle (Thomas), on the Historical Plays, 89.
Casca (in _Julius Caesar_), 286.
Cassius (in _Julius Caesar_), 275, 284.
_César_, by Jacques Grévin, 31.
_César_, by Grévin and Muretus, compared, 30-33.
Chalmers (Alexander), on _Coriolanus_, 460.
Chapman (George), French plays, 77;
_Bussy d’Ambois_, 303;
_The Conspiracie_ and _The Tragedie of Charles,
Duke of Byron_, 464.
Charmian (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 347.
Chaucer (Geoffrey), on Brutus and Cassius, 27;
_Legend of Good Women_, 308.
Chenier (Marie-Joseph), _Brutus et Cassius,
Les Derniers Romains_, 27.
Cicero (in _Julius Caesar_), 287.
Cinthio (Giovanni Battista Giroldi), play on _Cleopatra_,
_note_ 310.
Cleopatra (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 413-438;
relations between Antony and Cleopatra, 439-453;
“One Word,” 653-656.
_Cleopatra_, by Samuel Daniel, 48.
Coleridge (Samuel Taylor), Brutus (in _Julius Caesar_), 201, 202,
204, 205;
_Julius Caesar_, 256;
_Antony and Cleopatra_, 305, 317, 338;
_Coriolanus_, 462, 473;
on Aufidius (in _Coriolanus_), 486;
“Inexplicable” passage in _Coriolanus_, 657-659.
Collins (John Churton), _Studies in Shakespeare_, 180;
Shakespeare’s Latinity, 653.
Collischonn (G.A.O.), Introduction to Grévin’s _Caesar_, _note_ 27;
and Muretus’ _Julius Caesar_, _note_ 27;
coincidences between Grévin and Shakespeare, 34.
Cominius (in _Coriolanus_), 498, 556.
_Complaint of Rosamond_, by Samuel Daniel, 48;
parallelisms with _Romeo and Juliet_ and _Rape of Lucrece_, 56.
Confrères de la Passion, 30.
CORIOLANUS, 454-627;
date of composition, 454;
“Inexplicable” passage in, 657-659.
_Cornelia_, by Thomas Kyd, 54.
_Cornélie_, compared with Muretus, 37.
Cory, translation of Leo, 333.
Courier (P. L.), on Plutarch, 106, 119.
Cruserius, Latin version of Plutarch, 133.
_Cymbeline_, 312.

Daniel (Samuel), _Cleopatra_, 48, 338, 451.
Dante, on Brutus and Cassius, 26.
Decius (in _Julius Caesar_), 286.
_Defence of Ryme_, by Samuel Daniel, 50.
de l’Escluse (Charles), additional lives to Plutarch, 144.
_Delia_, by Samuel Daniel, 48.
Delius (Nicolaus), Shakespeare and Plutarch, 165;
on Coriolanus, 456, 487;
Coriolanus and Plutarch, 493.
Demogeot, on Amyot, 139.
De Quincey (Thomas), on Plutarch, _note_ 114.
_Diall of Princes_, by Thomas North, 143.
Digges (Leonard), on the Roman Plays, 85;
on _Julius Caesar_, 255.
Dodsley (Robert), Old English Plays, 4.
Dolabella (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 346.
Doni (Antonio Francesco), _Morale Filosofia_
(same as Bidpai’s Fables), 144, 150.
Dowden (Professor Edward), _Shakespeare’s Mind and Art_, 214.
Drayton (Michael), _Mortimeriados_ or _The Barons’ War_, 169.
Dryden (John), on Plutarch, 106;
_Life of Plutarch_, 110;
_All for Love_ or _The World Well Lost_, 256, 340.

_Eccerinis_, by Mussato, 11.
Eedes (Dr.), lost Latin play, 180.
English and Roman plays compared, 74.
Enobarbus (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 349-359.
Eros (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 366.

_Fabula Praetexta_, 11.
Faguet (Émile), on _Cornélie_, 37.
_Famous Victories of Henry V._, 2.
Farmer (John S.), reproduction of _Appius and Virginia_, 3.
Favorinus (the Philosopher), 101.
Fénelon (François de Salignac de la Mothe), on Amyot, 136.
Ferrero (Professor Guglielmo), on _Antony and Cleopatra_,
_note_ 335;
on Cleopatra, _note_ 414 and 452.
Filelfo, Latin version of Plutarch, 134.
Florus (Mestrius) [friend of Plutarch], 97.
French Senecans, 19-44.
Fulvia (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 396.
Furness (Frances Howard), _Antony and Cleopatra_, _note_ 59;
on Charmian, _note_ 347.

Garnett (Dr. Richard), _Date and Occasion of The Tempest_, 466.
Garnier (R.), _Cornélie_, 35;
Drama about Portia, 35;
_Marc Antoine_, 41;
_Antonius_, English translation by Countess of Pembroke, 46;
_Antony and Cleopatra_, 338;
parallels between _Cornélie_ and _Julius Caesar_, 628-630.
Gassner (H.), edition of Kyd’s _Cornelia_, _note_ 55.
Geddes (Dr.), a lost Latin play, 180.
Gellius (Aulus), on Plutarch, 101.
Genée (Rudolph), Shakespeare’s _Leben und Werke_, 198.
Gervinus (Georg Gottfried), _Shakespeare Commentaries_,
_Julius Caesar_, 224;
_Antony and Cleopatra_, 305, 307, 340;
Plutarch’s Antony, 336;
Coriolanus, 471.
Goethe, on “love,” 446.
_Gorboduc_, 45, 70.
Goulard (Simon), _Octavius Caesar Augustus_, 648.
Greene (Robert), _James IV._, _note_ 62.
Grévin (Jacques), _César_, _note_ 27, 31.
Grosart (Dr. Alexander), edition of Daniel’s _Cleopatra_
quoted from, 51.
Guevara (Antoniode), _The Favored Courtier_, 148;
_El Libro Aureo de Marco Aurelio, otherwise
Emperador y eloquentissimo Orator_,
called _Marco Aurelio con el Relox de Principes_
or _The Diall of Princes_, 147 and 148.

Halliwell-Phillips (J. O.), Weever’s _Mirror of Martyrs_, 170.
Hamlet, 78, 173.
Hardy (Alexandre), _Coriolan_, 475.
Hazlitt (W. Carew), _notes_ 4 and 5.
Heine (Heinrich), on Cleopatra, 441;
on Rome, 547.
_Henry V._, 172.
Heywood (Thomas), _Rape of Lucrece_, 68.
Holden (Rev. Dr. H. A.), on Plutarch, _note_ 114;
on Amyot, _note_ 133.
Holland (Philemon), translation of Pliny, 333, _note_ 456;
Livy on Coriolanus, 626.
Hudson (Dr. Henry Norman),
_Shakespeare, his Life, Art and Characters_, 224.
Hughes (Thomas), _Misfortunes of Arthur_, 45.
Hugo (Victor), Historical Plays, 87.

Ingram (Professor), on “endings” (of verses), 304.
Iras (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 347, 438.

Jacobs (Joseph), _Fables of Bidpai_, _note_ 150.
Jaggard (the Younger), a printer, 301.
Jodelle (Étienne), _Cleopatra Captive_, 28, _note_ 322;
_Antony and Cleopatra_, 338;
_Cleopatra_, _note_ 435.
Johnson (Dr. Samuel), _Julius Caesar_, 256;
_Coriolanus_, 480, 482;
Menenius Agrippa, 564.
Jonson (Ben), _Catiline_, 54;
_Sejanus_ and _Catiline_, 85;
_Discoveries_ and _Staple of News_,
on _Julius Caesar_, 174 and 175;
_Epicoene_, note 303, 460.
Jowett (Benjamin), _Plato_, Vol. I., _note_ 237;
_Plato_, Vol. II., 446.
JULIUS CAESAR, date of composition, 168;
Plutarch, 180;
the lives of Brutus, Caesar and Antony, 188;
should it be named Marcus Brutus, 212;
_Julius Caesar_ is himself analogous to the
King in the English Historical Plays, 213.
Julius Caesar, character in other plays, 177.
Julius Caesar and Appian, 644-647.
_Julius Caesar_ and Garnier’s _Cornélie_, 60;
parallels between, 628-630.
_Julius Caesar_, by Muretus, 11.
Junius Brutus (in _Coriolanus_), 499.

Kahnt (Paul), _Gedankenkreis ...
in Jodelle’s und Garnier’s Tragödien_, _note_ 19.
Karsteg (Prof. von), in _Harry Richmond_, 393.
_King John_, 82.
_King Lear_, 78.
Klein, on Cinthio’s _Cleopatra_ and _Antony and Cleopatra_,
_note_ 310.
Kreyssig (Friedrich Alexo Theodor), on Octavius, 378;
on Volumnia, 553;
on Virgilia, 570.
Kyd (Thomas), translation of _Cornélie_
(under name _Cornelia_), 54;
Boas’ edition, _note_ 55.

Lamprias, brother of Plutarch, 98.
Landman (Dr. Friedrich), on _Euphues_, 149.
Lanson, on Amyot, 141.
La Rochefoucauld (François, VI. Duc de), _notes_ 420, 424 and 451.
Lartius (in _Coriolanus_), 513.
Le Duc (Viollet), _Ancien Théatre François_, _note_ 28.
Lee (Sidney), Shakespeare and Camden, 457.
Lepidus (in _Julius Caesar_), 297.
Lepidus (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 368.
Lessing (Gotthold Ephraim), _Hamburg Dramaturgy_
on the Roman Plays, 86.
Ligarius (in _Julius Caesar_), 286.
“light” endings, 304.
Lily (John), _Euphues_ and _The Diall of Princes_, 149.
Lloyd (Watkiss), on _Coriolanus_, 519.
Lodge (Thomas), _The Wounds of Civill War_, 62;
_A Looking Glass for London and England_, 62;
translator of Josephus and Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 68.
Lord Alexas, _see_ Alexas.
Lotze, on Historical Plays, 89.
“Love,” in three plays, 342.
Luce (Alice), edition of Countess of Pembroke’s
translation of R. Garnier’s _Antonius_, _note_ 46.
Lucilius (in _Julius Caesar_), 285.
Lucina, Elizabethan plays on, 1.
Lucretia, Elizabethan plays on, 1.

_Macbeth_, 78, and _Antony and Cleopatra_, 302.
Malone (Edmund), date of _Antony and Cleopatra_, 303;
date of _Coriolanus_, 454, 459, 460.
“Mansions” (another name for “scenes”), 476.
Marcius (in _Coriolanus_), 497, 549.
Marcus Aurelius, 104.
Mark Antony
(in _Julius Caesar_), 289-298.
(in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 390-412.
Marlowe (Christopher), _Edward II._, 2;
_Tamburlaine_, _note_ 62,
and Shakespeare, _Henry VI._, 93.
Massinissa, Elizabethan plays on, 1.
Mecaenas (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 346, 361.
Menas (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 348, 376.
Menecrates (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 376.
Menenius Agrippa (in _Julius Caesar_), 558.
Meres (Francis), list of plays, 171;
_Palladis Tamia_, 172.
Messala (in _Julius Caesar_), 285.
Méziriac (Bachet de), on Amyot, 128.
_Misfortunes of Arthur_, by Thomas Hughes, 45.
“Mixed” plays, 18.
Moeller, _Kleopatra in der Tragödien-Literatur_, _note_, 310.
Montaigne (Michael, Lord of), on Muretus, 20;
on Amyot, 129.
Montreuil, _Cleopatre_, _note_ 310.
Muretus, _Julius Caesar_, 11, 20.
Mussato, _Eccerinis_, 11.

Nashe (Thomas), use of word “lurched,” 460.
Nicholson (S.), _Acolastus his Afterwit_, 171.
North (Sir Thomas), 141-167;
birth and education, 142;
_Diall of Princes_, 143;
Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, 143;
Doni’s _Morale Filosofia_, 144;
command at Ely, 146;
dignities and pensions, 146;
his style in translating Plutarch, 154;
? as to the Greek text, _note_ 155.
Nuce (Thomas), English version of _Octavia_, 12.

_Octavia_, ? by Seneca, 10-19.
Octavia (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 362-366.
Octavius (in _Julius Caesar_), 298.
Octavius (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 373, 378.
_Othello_, 78.
Ovid, _Epistle of Dido_, 653.

Pais (Ettore), on story of Coriolanus, 474.
Pembroke (Countess of),
translation of Garnier’s _Antonius_, 2;
Mornay’s _Discourse on Life and Death_, _note_ 46.
_Philotas_, by Samuel Daniel, 49.
Pindarus (in _Julius Caesar_), 284, 285.
Plays named after _two_ persons, 341.
Plutarch and Shakespeare, 92 etc., 95-119;
ancestry and education, 95;
_Isis and Osiris_, 96;
_Moralia_, 97;
marriage, 98;
priest of Apollo, 102;
Archon of Chaeronea, 104;
? a consul, 104;
? governor of Greece, 104;
and Plato, 108;
Neo-Platonism, 108;
his philosophy, 108;
_Praecepta gerendae Reipublicae_, 113;
Latin version of his _Lives_, published at Rome by Campani, 132;
other translations, 132;
editions of North’s version, 151;
various versions and Volumnia’s speech, 631-643.
Portia (in _Julius Caesar_), 271-274.
Preston (Thomas), _King Cambyses_, 8.
Proculeius (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 346.
Puschkin, parallel with Cleopatra’s “One Word,” 655.

_Quarterly Review_ (1861), on Plutarch, 162.

Rabelais (François), prose of, 135.
Racine (Jean), on Amyot, 136.
_Richard III._, 177.
Rigal (Eugène), on Alexandre Hardy, 476.
Roman and English plays compared, 74.
_Romeo and Juliet_, 177.
Ronsard (Pierre de) Roman plays by the School of, 11;
on Grévin’s _César_, 33.
Rousseau (Jean Jacques), on Plutarch, 117.
Ruhnken, edition of Muretus, _note_ 27.
Ruskin (John), on Virgilia, 497.
Rusticus (Arulenus), friend of Plutarch, 97.

Sachs (Hans), play on Cleopatra, _note_ 310.
St. Évremond, on Plutarch, 112.
Scarus (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 359.
Schiller, historical plays of, 87.
Schweighäuser (Johann), version of Appian quoted, 645.
Scott (Sir Walter), on Dryden’s _All for Love_, 256.
Seneca, ? author of _Octavia_, 10.
Senecio (Sosius), friend of Plutarch, 97.
Serapion, a poet, 101.
Sextus of Chaeronea, 104.
Sextus Pompeius (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 346, 373.
Shakespeare (William),
Roman plays influenced by Senecan pieces, 56,
and Thomas Kyd, 56;
_Midsummer-Night’s Dream_ and
_Merchant of Venice_ show traces of North’s Plutarch, 151;
various editions of North’s Plutarch, _note_ 152, and North, 163.
Sicinius Vellutus (in _Coriolanus_), 499.
Sidgwick (Henry), on _Julius Caesar_, 176.
Silius (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 345.
Skelton (John), _Garland of Laurel_, 309.
Sonnets—Daniel’s _Delia_, 56;
sorrows in the, 313.
Stahr (A.), on Cleopatra, 427.
Stengel, _Théatre d’Alexandre Hardy_, 476.
Stirling (Earl of), _see_ Alexander (Sir William).
Stokes (Henry Paine),
_Chronological Order of Shakespeare’s Plays_, _note_ 168.
Stone (Boswell), _Shakespeare’s Holinshed_, _note_ 180.
Strato (in _Julius Caesar_), 285.
Swinburne (Algernon Charles), Trilogy on Mary Stuart, 89.
Taylor (Sir Henry), _Philip van Artevelde_, 89.
Ten Brink (Bernhard), on Cleopatra, 443.
Tennyson, _Harold_, 89.
Thyreus (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 346.
_Timaeus_, treatise on the, by Plutarch, 101.
_Timon_, 82, 307.
Timon, brother of Plutarch, 98.
Titinius (in _Julius Caesar_), 284, 285.
_Titus Andronicus_, 177.
Titus Lartius (in _Coriolanus_), 498, 556.
Trench (Richard Chenevix), Archbishop of Dublin, on Plutarch, 114;
on Shakespeare and Plutarch, 164;
on _Coriolanus_, 600.
_Troilus and Cressida_, 84.
Tullus Aufidius, _see_ Aufidius (Tullus).
Turberville (George), translation of Ovid, 654.

Vaugelas (Claude Favre de), on Amyot, 136.
Ventidius (in _Antony and Cleopatra_), 345.
Verity (A. W.), edition of _Julius Caesar_, 175;
edition of _Coriolanus_, _note_ 497.
Viehoff, on _Shakespeare’s Coriolan_, 479.
Virgilia (in _Coriolanus_), 497, 566.
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet de), on Brutus, 239.
Volumnia (in _Coriolanus_), 494, 549;
her speech and various versions of Plutarch, 631-643.
Warburton (William), a reading in _Antony and Cleopatra_, 411.
Ward (Prof. A. W.),
on Countess of Pembroke’s version of Garnier’s _Antonius_,
_note_ 46;
on Lodge’s _The Wounds of Civill War_, _note_ 62.
_Warning to Fair Women_, 171.
“weak” endings, 304.
Weever (John), _Mirror of Martyrs_, 170, 172.
Whitelaw, date of _Coriolanus_, 466.
Wordsworth (William), on Plutarch, _note_ 114.
Wright (W. Aldis), edition of _Julius Caesar_, 172.
Wyndham (the Right Honble. George), on Plutarch, 112;
on Amyot’s Plutarch’s _Morals_, _note_ 144;
on _Julius Caesar_, 239.

Xylander, Latin version of Plutarch, 133.

Zielinski (Professor Thaddäus),
_Marginalia Philologus_
on _Antony and Cleopatra_, _note_ 347;
on Cleopatra’s “One Word,” 653.

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A History of English Poetry.

By W. J. COURTHOPE, C.B., M.A., D.Litt.,
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A History of English Prosody

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