Ha, gotcha! Of course I know very well, oh noble rodent, whence my
misquote cometh (how could you EVER think I would not check my
references when provoking you?) - I was referring to Thomas Middleton's
supposed later revision of M for M, knowing full well that "revenge" +
Middleton would get you going (see "MmischievousM"). I was under the
impression that it is the Crane transcript - or is it the Middleton
revision? the Oxford o-s edition suggests an "adaptation after Sh.'s
death"- that deletes words from Pompey's speech; but I am no scholar in
this matter, more a gadfly. In any case, the 1623 Folio has "Groping for
Trowts, in a peculiar riuer" - see
> http://ise.uvic.ca/Texts/MM/F1/Scene/1.2
which the Oxford ed. places in the "Additional Passages" (sic).
Never crow or condescend too soon
The Laughing Fool
Robin wrote:
> You seem to have excelled yourself in creating chaos and confusions in
> this post, Martin. <g>
>
> First of all, the line (which should anyway read "groping for trouts
> [sic] in a peculiar river") doesn't, as you imply, occur in +The
> Revenger's Tragedy+. Which is anyway *not written by Thomas
> Middleton, much as I know you admire the man's writing, but by
> (not)"Cyril Tourneur".
>
> It is uttered by Pompey in Act 1, scene 2 of +Measure for Measure+.
>
> An easy mistake to make, no doubt.
>
> A Persnickety Renaissance Rodent
>
> [This would have been easy to confirm if by some weird freak of
> circumstance, precisely lines 79-85 of MforM are inexplicably omitted
> from the Norton Shakespeare. Norton seem to have taken the error over
> from The Oxford Shakespeare.
>
> Boy, the Stratford Mafia sure screwed up right royally there!
>
> I'll dump this on SHAKSPER, see if anyone has noticed this already.
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