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former Agents Walker (Crit., iii, 206) marks these words with a query, on which his editor, Lettsom, has the following foot-note: ‘From the doubt expressed here Walker was, perhaps, hesitating about the meaning of “former.” We might, perhaps, compare “former ensigns” in Jul. Cæs., V, i, 80; but there I should say Shakespeare wrote foremost ensigns, after North's Plutarch.’—[Is not ‘former’ here used in the sense aforesaid? Schmidt (Lex., s. v. 3) gives several examples of this use of ‘former’; among them he includes the present line.—Ed.]
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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