William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary of The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra, act 1, scene 2, line 148

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could plucke Heath: The verb could hath a peculiar signification in this place; it doth not denote power but inclination. The sense is, ‘the hand that drove her off would now willingly pluck her back again.’

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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