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
23. _hear other things._] Theobald (Thirlby conj.). _heere other
things_ Qq F1 F2. _here other things,_ F3 F4. _here are other
things._ Rowe.
24: _hands_] _hands_, Qq Ff.
27: _secret_] _sacred_ Collier MS.
32: _will we_] Q1. _we will_ Q2 Ff Q3 Q4.
35: _lays_] _lay_ Hanmer.
_you_] Q1 Q2 Ff. _me_ Q3 Q4.
40: _And so farewell_] Q1. _So fare you well_ Q2 Ff Q3 Q4.
43: _pleased_] _’pris’d_ Warburton.
44: _fare you well_] Q2 Ff Q3 Q4. _farewell_ Q1.
45, 46: _Now...true_] Printed as one line in Qq Ff: corrected by
Pope.
46: _honest-true_] Dyce (S. Walker conj.).
49: _Padua_] Theobald. _Mantua_ Qq Ff.
53: _tranect_] _traject_ Rowe. _crane, next_ Jackson conj.
54: _words_] _word_ Q3 Q4.
55: _thee_] _hee_ F2.
62: _that_] Qq Ff. _what_ Rowe (ed. 2).
63: _accoutred_] _apparreld_ Q1.
72: _withal_] _with all_ Rowe (ed. 2.) See note (X).
75: _I have_] _I’ve_ Pope.
81: _my_] _my my_ Q2.
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SCENE V. _The same. A garden._
_Enter_ LAUNCELOT _and_ JESSICA.
_Laun._ Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father
are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I promise ye,
I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so now I
speak my agitation of the matter: therefore be of good
cheer; for, truly, I think you are damned. There is but 5
one hope in it that can do you any good; and that is but
a kind of bastard hope neither.
_Jes._ And what hope is that, I pray thee?
_Laun._ Marry, you may partly hope that your father
got you not, that you are not the Jew’s daughter. 10
_Jes._ That were a kind of bastard hope, indeed: so the
sins of my mother should be visited upon me.
_Laun._ Truly then I fear you are damned both by father
and mother: thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall
into Charybdis, your mother: well, you are gone both ways. 15
_Jes._ I shall be saved by my husband; he hath made
me a Christian.
_Laun._ Truly, the more to blame he: we were Christians
enow before; e’en as many as could well live, one by
another. This making of Christians will raise the price of 20
hogs: if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly
have a rasher on the coals for money.
_Enter_ LORENZO.
_Jes._ I’ll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say: here
he comes.
_Lor._ I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Launcelot, 25
if you thus get my wife into corners.
_Jes._ Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo: Launcelot
and I are out. He tells me flatly, there is no mercy for me
in heaven, because I am a Jew’s daughter: and he says,
you are no good member of the commonwealth; for, in 30
converting Jews to Christians, you raise the price of pork.
_Lor._ I shall answer that better to the commonwealth
than you can the getting up of the negro’s belly: the Moor
is with child by you, Launcelot.
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