The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays

ACT I.

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SC. 1. "It would not be Sir Nob in any case."

The 2nd folio properly read _I_ for 'It.'

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"Kneel thee down Philip, but _to_ rise more great."

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"'Tis too respective and too sociable For your conversion."

In the only other place where 'conversion' occurs in these plays it signifies change; but it may be conversation.

"As at his next _conversion_ with your Grace He will relate the circumstance at full."

Ham. 1603.

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"Sir Robert could do well; marry, to confess _the truth_; Could _he_ get me? Sir Robert could not do it."