William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary of The Tragedie of Coriolanus, Actus Primus., Scœna Prima., line 20

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yeelde vs but W. A. Wright: ‘But’ qualifies not ‘the superfluity,’ but the verb ‘yield.’ If they would only yield us the superfluity while it were wholesome, and not when it is good for nothing.

while it were For this construction see Abbott (§§ 302, 367).

William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D. The Tragedie of Coriolanus. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company.

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