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'Tis Noble spoken For many examples of adjectives used as adverbs, see, if need be, Abbott, § 1. Compare ‘How honourable . . . wee Determine for her,’ V, i, 71.

116. If it might please you, etc.] Capeli. (i, 33): This imperfect and conditional mode of expressing a wish, may be intended as a mark of submissiveness: in

any other light, is improper; and—Would were greatly better than ‘If.’—Thiselton (p. 12): The punctuation of the Folio indicates a deferential hesitancy in venturing to offer advice.—[If this ‘punctuation’ refers to the comma after ‘you,’ it is not peculiar to the Folio. There is, I think, no edition without it.—Ed.]

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