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
_Bene._ Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee.
_Beat._ Use it for my love some other way than swearing
by it.
_Bene._ Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath
wronged Hero? 325
_Beat._ Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.
_Bene._ Enough, I am engaged; I will challenge him. I
will kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand,
Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you hear of
me, so think of me. Go, comfort your cousin: I must say 330
she is dead: and so, farewell. [_Exeunt._
~~~~~
Linenotes: _Much Ado About Nothing_, IV. 1.
SCENE I. and attendants.] om. Q Ff. Guests and attendants. Grant
White.
4: _lady._] _lady?_ Rowe (ed. 2).
6: _her: friar,_] Q F1. _her, friar,_ F2 F3 F4. _her, friar;_
Rowe (ed. 2).
9: _count._] _count?_ Rowe (ed. 2).
19: _not knowing what they do!_] Q. omitted in Ff.
42–44: S. Walker proposes to make four lines ending
_lord?...soul...lord,...proof._
43: _Not to knit_] Q F1. _Not knit_ F2 F3 F4. _Nor knit_
Steevens conj. _Not to be...soul_ as one line, Steevens (Tyrwhitt
conj.).
44: _Dear_] _Dear, dear_ Capell.
_proof_] _approof_ Theobald.
48: _You will_] _You’ll_ Pope.
55: _thee! Seeming_] Grant White. _thee seeming_ Q Ff. _thy seeming_
Pope. _the seeming_ Knight.
_write_] _rate_ Warburton conj.
56: _You...orb_] Becket would put in inverted commas.
_seem_] _seem’d_ Hanmer.
_Dian_] _Diane_ Q F1 F2. _Diana_ F3 F4.
60: _rage_] _range_ Collier MS.
61: _wide_] _wild_ Collier MS.
62: Leon.] Claud. Tieck.
75: _do so_] Q F2. _doe_ F1. _to do_ F3 F4.
78: F2 F3 F4 give this line to _Leonato;_ Theobald restored it to
_Claudio_.
81: _itself_] _herself_ Rowe.
86: _are you_] Q. _you are_ Ff.
91: _most like a liberal_] _like an illiberal_ Hanmer. _like a most
liberal_ Anon. conj.
94: _Fie, fie_] _Fie_ Hanmer, dividing the lines, _A thousand...are
Not...spoke of._
95: _spoke_] Q. _spoken_ Ff.
97: _Thus_] _Thou_ Collier MS.
101: _thy thoughts_] Q Ff. _the thoughts_ Rowe.
108: [Hero swoons] Hanmer.
111: [Exeunt...] Rowe. om. Q Ff.
112: SCENE II. Pope.
118: _look up_] _still look up_ Steevens conj.
120: _Why, doth not_] Theobald. _Why doth not_ Q Ff.
125: _shames_] _shame’s_ F3 F4.
126: _rearward_] F3 F4. _rereward_ Q. _reward_ F1. _reareward_
F2. _hazard_ Collier MS. _re-word_ Brae conj.
128: _frame_] _’fraine _ Warburton. _hand_ Hanmer. _frown_ Collier
MS.
129: _O,_] Q F1. om. F2 F3 F4. _I’ve_ Rowe.
131: _I not_] _not I_ Rowe.
133: _smirched_] Q. _smeered_ F1 F2 F3. _smeer’d_ F4.
136, 137: _and...and...And_] _as...as...As_ Warburton.
140: _ink,_] _ink!_ Capell.
143: _foul-tainted_] _foule tainted_ Q Ff. _soul-tainted_ Collier MS.
143–145: _Sir, sir...to say_] Printed as prose in Q Ff, as verse by
Pope.
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