_Duke._ Well, you'll answer this one day. Fare ye well.
_Lucio._ Nay, tarry; I'll go along with thee: I can tell 160
thee pretty tales of the Duke.
_Duke._ You have told me too many of him already,
sir, if they be true; if not true, none were enough.
_Lucio._ I was once before him for getting a wench
with child. 165
_Duke._ Did you such a thing?
_Lucio._ Yes, marry, did I: but I was fain to forswear
it; they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.
_Duke._ Sir, your company is fairer than honest. Rest
you well. 170
_Lucio._ By my troth, I'll go with thee to the lane's
end: if bawdy talk offend you, we'll have very little of it.
Nay, friar, I am a kind of burr; I shall stick. [_Exeunt._
NOTES: IV, 3.
SCENE III.] SCENE VIII. Pope.
5: _paper_] _pepper_ Rowe.
11: _Dizy_] F2 F3 F4. _Dizie_ F1. _Dizzy_ Pope. _Dicey_ Steevens conj.
14: _Forthlight_] Ff. _Forthright_ Warburton.
15: _Shooty_] F2 F3 F4. _Shootie_ F1. _Shooter_ Warburton.
_Shoo-tye_ Capell.
17: _are_] _cry_ Anon. conj. See note (XIX).
_now_] _now in_ Pope.
25: _friends_] F1 F2. _friend_ F3 F4.
32: _his_] _the_ Pope.
49: _I_] om. F4.
[Transcriber's Note:
The text does not specify which occurrence of "I" is meant.
The speech begins "Not I: I have..."]
57: _hear_] _heave_ F2.
59: SCENE IX. Pope.
60: _gravel heart_] _grovelling beast_ Collier MS.
61: Given by Hanmer to _Prov._
69: _his_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.
_do_] om. Pope.
76: _whiles_] _while_ Pope.
83: _both Barnardine and Claudio_] _Claudio and Barnardine_ Hanmer.
See note (XX).
85: _the under_] Hanmer. _yond_ Ff. _yonder_ Pope.
86: _manifested_] _manifest_ Hanmer.
88: _Quick_] _Quick, then,_ Capell.
96: _well-_] Rowe. _weale-_ F1 F2 F3. _weal_ F4.
102: SCENE X. Pope.
103: _She's come_] _She comes_ Pope.
106: _comforts_] _comfort_ Hanmer.
107: _Ho,_] om. Pope.
113, 114, 115: Ff make two lines ending at _other ... patience._
Text as proposed by Spedding.
114, 115: _show ... patience_] _In your close patience, daughter,
shew your wisdom_ Capell.
114: _your wisdom_] _wisdom_ Pope.
115: _close_] _closest_ Pope.
119: _Injurious_] _perjurious_ Collier MS.
120: _nor hurts_] _not hurts_ F4. _hurts not_ Rowe.
122: _say_] _say to you_ Collier MS.
_find_] _surely find_ Pope.
124: _nay_] om. Pope.
125: _covent_] Ff. _convent_ Rowe.
126: _instance_] _news_ Pope.
129: _If you can, pace_] Rowe. _If you can pace_ Ff. _Pace_ Pope.
S. Walker thinks a line is lost after 131.
129, 130: _If you can pace ... wish it, go,_ Edd. conj.
137: _to-night_] om. Pope.
141: _combined_] _confined_ Johnson conj. (withdrawn).
145: _Who's_] _whose_ F1.
146: SCENE XI. Pope.
154: [Exit ISABELLA] Theobald. om. Ff.
155: _beholding_] Ff. _beholden_ Rowe.
163: _not true_] _not_ Rowe.
172: _it_] om. F2.
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