. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. yourself that is, restrain yourself; and so inTimon of Athens (act ii. sc. 2), Timon says to his creditorsservant, c Contain yourself, good friend; and so again,in Troilus and Cressida (act v. sc. 2), Ulysses says:— THE PROVINCIALISMS OF SHAKSPEKE. 115 O contain yourself,Your passion draws ears hither. And in the Two Gentlemen of Verona (act iv. scene 4), wefind Launce using the still rarer phrase of keep your-self/ in the same sense to his dog Crab. I will not, though, dwell too long upon a subject which,however curious, is still of very seco
. Shakespere: his birthplace and its neighborhood. yourself that is, restrain yourself; and so inTimon of Athens (act ii. sc. 2), Timon says to his creditorsservant, c Contain yourself, good friend; and so again,in Troilus and Cressida (act v. sc. 2), Ulysses says:— THE PROVINCIALISMS OF SHAKSPEKE. 115 O contain yourself,Your passion draws ears hither. And in the Two Gentlemen of Verona (act iv. scene 4), wefind Launce using the still rarer phrase of keep your-self/ in the same sense to his dog Crab. I will not, though, dwell too long upon a subject which,however curious, is still of very secondary importance. Forthe benefit of those who take an interest in word-lore, Ihave ventured to give in an Appendix a short glossary ofwords used in Shaksperes plays which are still to be heardin Warwickshire. For it is, after all, touching to thinkthat, amidst the change that is ever going on, the samephrases which Shakspere spoke are still spoken in his nativecounty, and that the flowers are still called by the samenames which he called — jxxey Stalks. 8—2
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