The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . ces of them all, not I dare so far free him) made him feard,So hated, and so banishd : But he has a choke it in the utterance. So our virtuesLie 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 fouler,* strength by strengths do , lets away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,Thou art poorst of all; then shortly art thou mine. \_Exeunt. Fouler. So the original. Malone su
The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . ces of them all, not I dare so far free him) made him feard,So hated, and so banishd : But he has a choke it in the utterance. So our virtuesLie 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 fouler,* strength by strengths do , lets away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,Thou art poorst of all; then shortly art thou mine. \_Exeunt. Fouler. So the original. Malone substitutes/wMwrfer ;and the emendation has provoked three pages of controversyamongst the commentators. We may understand the mean-ing of the original expression if we substitute the oppositeepithet, fairer. As it is, the lesser rights drive out thegreater—the fairer rights fail through the fouler. In thesame manner, in The Taming of the Shrew, fouler is notused in the sense of more polluted ; we have, The fouler fortune mine, and there an [Ancient Arch on Road leading into Rome.] 200
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