The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
770: _this in our_] Hanmer. _this our_ Q1. _these are our_ Ff Q2.
_these are your_ Tyrwhitt conj. _this (save our...)_ Warburton.
771: _been_] _seen_ Tyrwhitt conj.
786: _the_] Q1. _their_ Ff Q2.
793: _me by_] _by_ F3 F4.
795: _instant_] Ff Q2. _instance_ Q1.
800: _intitled_] F1 F2 F3 Q2. _intiled_ Q1. _intituled_ F4.
802: _flatter_] _fetter_ Hanmer (Warburton).
804: _Hence ever_] Ff. _Hence herrite_ Q1.
805–810: Included in brackets by Theobald at the suggestion of
Thirlby and Warburton, and omitted by Hanmer. See note (XVIII).
806: _rack’d_] _rank_ Rowe. _reck’d_ Becket conj.
807: _faults_] _fault_ F2 F3 F4.
812: _A wife?..._] Dyce. Kath. _A wife? a beard, faire health,
and..._ Qq Ff. Kath. _A wife, a beard (fair youth) and..._ Theobald.
Kath. _No wife: a beard, fair health, and..._ Hanmer.
828: _thy_] Q1. _my_ Ff. Q2.
829: _have_] _had_ Collier MS.
833: _estates_] _estetes_ Q1.
_execute_] _exercise_ Collier MS.
835: _fruitful_] _fructful_ Q1.
852: _dear_] _dere_ Johnson conj. _drear_ Jackson conj. _dire_
Collier MS.
853: _then_] _them_ Collier MS.
860: [To the King] Breaking Converse with the King and curtsying.
Capell.
868: _not_] om. Q2.
872: _years_] _yeare_ Q1. _year_ Capell.
877: Re-enter...] Enter all. Qq Ff.
882, 883: Theobald. In Ff Qq the order is 883, 882.
883: _cuckoo-buds_] _cowslip-buds_ Farmer conj. _crocus-buds_
Whalley conj.
884: _with delight_] _much-bedight_ Warburton.
903: _foul_] _full_ Q1.
905, 906: _Tu-whit; Tu-who_] Qq Ff. _Tu-who; Tu-whit, tu-who_ Capell.
917: Arm.] Brag. Ff Q2. om. Q1.
917, 918: _The words...Apollo_] In Q1 printed in larger type.
918: _You that way,—we this way._] om. Q1.
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NOTES.
NOTE I.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. Biron is spell ‘Berowne,’ Longaville ‘Longavill,’
in Q1 F1 Q2; Mercade ‘Marcade,’ in Qq Ff. Armado is written
sometimes ‘Armatho.’ Mr Grant White suggests that Moth should be
written ‘Mote,’ as it was clearly so pronounced. See note (VI).
‘Boyet’ is made to rhyme with ‘debt’ in V. 2. 334; ‘Longaville’ with
‘ill’ in IV. 3. 119, and with ‘mile’ in V. 2. 53; ‘Rosaline’ with
‘thine,’ IV. 3. 217. Costard, in the old stage directions, is called
‘Clown.’
NOTE II.
Mason says, ‘I believe the title of this play should be ‘Love’s
Labours Lost,’ but it is clear, from the form in which it is written
in the running title of Qq F1 F2 ‘Loves Labour’s Lost,’ that the
full name was intended to be ‘Love’s Labour is Lost.’ On the title
pages however of Q1 and Q2 it is written respectively ‘Loues labors
lost,’ and ‘Loues Labours lost.’ It is called by Meres (1598) ‘Love
Labour Lost,’ and by Tofte ‘Love’s Labour Lost,’ which is in favour
of the ordinary spelling.
NOTE III.
As the scene through the play is in the King of Navarre’s park, and
as it is perfectly obvious when the action is near the palace and
when near the tents of the French princess, we have not thought it
necessary to specify the several changes.
NOTE IV.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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