That noyses it Steevens: Milton has adopted this uncommon verb in his Paradise Regained; ‘though noising loud And threat'ning nigh,’ iv, 488.—[It is not the verb itself which is so ‘uncommon’ (it occurs elsewhere in Shakespeare, and several times in the New Testament), but it is its present sense which is so unusual, conveying, as it does, the idea of loud-voiced and turbulent opposition. I think that Steevens might have cast, not unprofitably, a side-glance on the verb, more than ‘uncommon,’ which Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, and Warburton accepted as the true one in this passage (see Text. Notes), imparting, as it does, a novel and coquettish charm to the infinite variety already ascribed to Cleopatra.—Ed.]
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1907.
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