Note 138 — III
Reading edition
[Thus the Shakespearian word renege (Latin renegare), to deny (Lear ii, 2) still lives in the mouths of the Irish peasantry. I have heard a farmer’s wife denounce those who “renege [renaig] their religion”.]
Reading edition
[Thus the Shakespearian word renege (Latin renegare), to deny (Lear ii, 2) still lives in the mouths of the Irish peasantry. I have heard a farmer’s wife denounce those who “renege [renaig] their religion”.]