Shakespeare's As You Like it

179. shrewd bitter.

181. states: estates.

192. You to your former honor: we should write, "I bequeath your former honor to you," etc.

193. deserves: should the verb be singular or plural ?

198. So, to your pleasures: Adam also receives a reward in the novel; he becomes captain of the king's guard.

EPILOGUE

4. no bush it was an old custom to indicate a wine room by a green growing bush outside the door.

19. If I were a woman: by reference to what is said about the stage in Shakespeare's time (p. xxxiii), one can see the idea in this "If I were." Rosalind, to be sure, was now in her

wedding garments, a beautiful maiden, but in the age of

Shakespeare no women appeared on the stage to take any part. One of the first efforts to have women take parts on the stage was in 1629, when the attempt was characterized by a writer of the day as 66 graceless, impudent, shameful, and unwomanish." It took a good deal of time to overcome the prejudice against the appearance of women actors.

INDEX TO NOTES

THE REFERENCES IN THIS INDEX ARE TO PAGES

A worthy fool, 148.

Adam's reward, 187.

Alas, 131.

Aliena, 136.

alone, 127.

ambles withal, 162.

an, 170.

antique, 141.

any else, 131.
argument, 151.

Art of the dramatist: "be-
queathed," 123; 'falling in
love," 128; "odds in the man,"
132;
"strong a liking," 135;
'them," 138; "people love
you," 140;
'weary,' 141;
cheerly," and "he," 147;
"Not see him since," 151;
"I'll sleep," and "killed the
deer," 173; "my counterfeit-
ing," 177; so little acquaint-
ance," 179; "pages," 181;

"yes," 182.
at first sight, 168.
Atalanta's better part, 157.
Atalanta's heels, 162.
Ay, 171.

bear no cross, 141.
bear this, 174.
bear with me, 135.
beast, 174.
bequeathed, 123.
better world, 134.
Biblical references, 143, 146.
big round tears, 137.
bills on their necks, 130.
blank verse, 170.

blind rascally boy, i.e. Cupid, 173.
blind woman, 128.

books for good manners, 184.
broken music, 131.
browner, 175.
burden, 161.

burn the lodging, 141.
by him seal up, 175.
By no means, sir, 162.

concave as a covered goblet, female, 178.

Good my complexion, 160.
Goths, 163.

Grammar and rhetoric: "than
him," 124; "spoke," 125; to
stay," 126; "learn," "I," and
ill-favoredly," 128; "de-
crees," and "There comes,"
129; "any else," 131; "known,"
and "could give more," 133;
"than I," and "must I," 134;
'am," 136; "Which," 137;
"that gallant," 138; "him,”
142; "that they call," 145;
an old poor man," 150;
more sounder," 153; "conned

Have with you, 134.
Helen's cheek, 157.
Hercules, 133.
Here comes, 153.
High = highly, 186.
his reverence, 125.
honesty, 143.
humor, 152.

Humor: "by mine honor," 129;
"him," etc., 142; "Martext,'
165.

I must speak, 161.
icy fang, 136.
if ever I marry,

181.

them out of rings," 161; If I were a woman, 187.

"shall," and "his,"
"that,' 163; "who,"

162; ill-favoredly, 128.
166; ill-roasted egg, 153.

"the taller,"

"Falls," "Nor," and "That in affection, 128.
can do hurt,' 167;
"had
rather," 170; Leander, he,"
171; "fathom," 172; "that
she could," 174; "it," and
"When that," 175;
66 we shall
be flouting," 177; "seeks you,"
178; "comes," 180; "the only
prologues," 181; "to wed,"
"from hence,'
"" "Good my
lord," and "like to have
fought," 183; "You to your
former honor,"

in Arden, 142.
in despite of, 134, 146.
In lieu of, 141.
Inconsistencies:
134; 66
too young," 135.
Irish rat, 158.
Irish wolves, 180.
Ivanhoe, 126, 130, 132, 166.

and

greatness of my word, 136.

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