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
202: _you_] Q1. _thee_ Q2 Ff.
206: _lose_] _loathe_ Anon. ap. Halliwell conj.
208: _can_] _can can_ F2.
210: _use_] Qq. _do_ Ff. _do use_ Reed.
220, 221: _privilege: for that It is_] Qq Ff. _privilege for that.
It is_ Malone (Tyrwhitt conj.).
235: _questions_] _question_ Steevens conj.
238: _the field_] Q1. _and field_ Q2 Ff.
242: [Exit Dem.] om. Qq Ff. Demetrius breaks from her and exit.
Capell.
243: _I’ll_] _Ile_ Qq. _I_ Ff.
244: [Exit] Q2 Ff. om. Q1.
245: SCENE IV. Pope.
246: Re-enter Puck] Enter Pucke. Qq Ff (after line 247).
247: _Hast thou...wanderer_] _Welcome wanderer; hast thou the flower
there_] Jackson conj.
249: _where_] _whereon_ Pope.
250: _oxlips_] Q1. _oxslips_ Q2 Ff. _the oxslips_ Rowe. _oxslip_
Pope. _oxlip_ Theobald.
_oxlips...violets_] _violets...ox-lip_ Keightley conj.
251: _Quite_] om. Pope.
_over-canopied_] _overcanopi’d_ Q1. _overcanoped_ Q2.
_over-cannoped_ Ff. _O’er cannopy’d_ Pope.
_luscious_] Ff. _lushious_ Qq. _lush_ Steevens (Theobald conj.).
253–256: Keightley proposes to arrange, 255, 256, 253, 254, and
would insert a line after 254, e.g. ‘_Upon her will I steal there as
she lies_’.
253: _sometime_] _some time_ Rowe.
254: _flowers_] _bowers_ Grant White (Collier MS.).
_with_] _from_ Hanmer.
256: _wrap_] F2 F3 F4. _wrappe_ Q1. _rap_ Q2 F1.
257: _And_] _There_ Hanmer.
266: _fond on_] _fond of_ Rowe.
268: [Exeunt.] Qq. [Exit. Ff.
~~~~~
SCENE II. _Another part of the wood._
_Enter_ TITANIA, _with her train_.
_Tita._ Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;
Then, for the third part of a minute, hence;
Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds;
Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,
To make my small elves coats; and some keep back 5
The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders
At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;
Then to your offices, and let me rest.
SONG.
_Fir. Fairy._ You spotted snakes with double tongue.
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; 10
Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,
Come not near our fairy queen.
CHORUS.
Philomel, with melody
Sing in our sweet lullaby;
Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby: 15
Never harm,
Nor spell, nor charm,
Come our lovely lady nigh;
So, good night, with lullaby.
_Fir. Fairy._ Weaving spiders, come not here; 20
Hence, you long-legg’d spinners, hence!
Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.
CHORUS.
Philomel, with melody, &c.
_Sec. Fairy._ Hence, away! now all is well: 25
One aloof stand sentinel.
[_Exeunt Fairies. Titania sleeps._
_Enter_ OBERON, _and squeezes the flower on Titania’s eyelids_.
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