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would you haue heard Malone: ‘Heard’ is here used as a dissyllable. The modern editors read, say, would you have heard.—Steevens: As my ears are wholly unreconciled to the dissyllabifications e-arl, he-ard, &c., I continue to read with the modern editors. Say, in other passages of our author, is prefatory to a question. So in Macbeth, ‘Say, if thou hadst rather hear it from our mouths,’ &c., [IV, i, 62].—Abbott (§ 483) by emphasizing strongly the monosyllable ‘you’ following ‘Were,’ makes it practically a dissyllable, and thus pieces out the metrical deficiency. Such ‘dissyllabifications’ are to my ears more disagreeable than Malone's suggested he-ard.—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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