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
_Beat._ Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to
dinner. 225
_Bene._ Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
_Beat._ I took no more pains for those thanks than you
take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not
have come.
_Bene._ You take pleasure, then, in the message? 230
_Beat._ Yea, just so much as you may take upon a
knife’s point, and choke a daw withal. You have no
stomach, signior: fare you well. [_Exit._
_Bene._ Ha! ‘Against my will I am sent to bid you come
in to dinner;’ there’s a double meaning in that. ‘I took 235
no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank
me;’ that’s as much as to say, Any pains that I take for
you is as easy as thanks. If I do not take pity of her, I am
a villain; if I do not love her, I am a Jew. I will go get
her picture. [_Exit._ 240
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Linenotes: _Much Ado About Nothing_, II. 3.
SCENE III.] SCENE VIII. Pope.
Enter Benedick.] Collier. Enter Benedick alone. Q Ff. Enter B. and a
Boy. Rowe. Enter B. and a Boy following. Staunton.
1: Enter Boy.] Collier, om. Q Ff.
7: [Exit Boy.] Exit. Q. Ff (after line 5).
18: _orthography_] Ff. _ortography_ Q. _orthographer_ Rowe (ed. 2).
_orthographist_ Capell conj.
22: _an_] _and_ Q.
27–30: See note (XIII).
29: _I_] Q. om. Ff.
33: SCENE IX. Pope.
Enter......Leonato] Capell. Enter prince, Leonato, Claudio, Musicke.
Q. Enter Prince, L., C. and Jacke Wilson. Ff.
38: _kid-fox_] _cade fox_ Hanmer. _hid fox_ Warburton.
Enter...Music] Q. om. Ff.
40: _tax_] _task_ Capell conj.
41, 42: F1 repeats these lines in the turn of the page.
45–56: Put into the margin as spurious by Pope.
53: _nothing_] Q Ff. _noting_ Theobald.
65: _moe_] Q F1. _more_ F2 F3 F4.
66: _Of_] _Or_ Collier MS.
67: _fraud...was_] Q. _fraud...were_ Ff. _frauds...were_ Pope.
68: _leavy_] _leafy_ Pope.
72: _no, no_] _ne no_ F4.
_no, faith;_] _no; faith,_ Collier.
74: _An_] Capell. _And_ Q Ff. _If_ Pope.
76: _lief_] _live_ Q.
79: _us_] om. Rowe.
_night_] om. Pope.
82: [Exit B.] Exeunt Bal. and Musick. Capell. See note (XIV).
93, 94: _it,...affection;_] _it,...affection,_ Q Ff.
_it;...affection,_ Pope. _it;...affection,—_ Capell.
94: _infinite_] _definite_ Warburton.
100: _this_] Q F1. _the_ F2 F3 F4.
102: _tell you_] _tell_ Capell.
124: _paper_] _paper full_ Collier MS.
126: _us of_] _of us_ Q.
127: _was_] om. F3 F4.
128: _over_] _ever_ F2.
_sheet?_] Capell. _sheet._ Q Ff. _sheets._ Collier MS.
133: _for_] om. Rowe.
136: _prays, curses_] _prays, cries_ Collier MS. _curses, prays_
Halliwell.
140: _afeard_] Q Ff. _afraid_ Rowe.
144: _make but_] Q. _but make_ Ff.
146: _alms_] _alms-deed_ Collier MS.
156: _daffed_] Johnson. _daft_ Q Ff. _dofft_ Pope. _dafft_ Theobald.
158: _a’_] _a_ Q. _he_ Ff.
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