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
189: _thee._] _thee?_ Pope.
193: SCENE IV. Pope.
195: _let me be_] Q F1. _let me see_ F2 F3 F4. _let be_ Capell.
_let me be: pluck_] _let me pluck_ Malone conj.
197: SCENE IV. Hanmer.
Enter...] Hanmer. Enter Constables, C. and B. Q (after 192). Enter
Constable, C. and B. Ff (after 192).
198: _weigh more_] _more weigh_ S. Walker conj.
_an_] _if_ Pope.
211: _you lay_] _lay you_ F4.
215: _Who_] Q F1. _Whom_ F2 F3 F4.
222: _overheard_] _heard_ F4.
232: _whiles_] _while_ Rowe.
234: _Yea, and...of it_] _Yea; And...on’t_ S. Walker conj.
_and_] om. Pope.
_richly_] _rich_ F2 F3 F4.
235: _and framed_] om. F3 F4.
240: _reformed_] _informed_ F3 F4.
245: SCENE V. Pope.
Re-enter...] Capell. Enter Leonato. Q Ff. Enter L. and Sexton.
Theobald.
249: _Art thou_] Q. _Art thou thou_ F1. _Art thou, art thou_ F2
F3 F4.
259: _Impose_] _Expose_ Hanmer.
_me to_] _to me_ Capell conj.
264: _to_] _too_ F3 F4.
265: _I cannot bid you bid my daughter live_] Q F1. _I cannot bid
you daughter live_ F2. _I cannot bid your daughter live_ F3. _You
cannot bid my daughter live_ F4. _You cannot bid my daughter live
again_ Rowe. _I cannot bid you cause my daughter live_ Collier MS.
285: _pack’d_] _packt_ Q Ff. _pact_ Collier.
306: _arrant_] _errant_ F4.
311: [Exeunt D. and V.] Edd. Exeunt D., V. and Watch. Capell.
Exeunt. Ff (after line 312). om. Q.
315: [To the Watch.] Edd.
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SCENE II. LEONATO’S _garden_.
_Enter_ BENEDICK _and_ MARGARET, _meeting_.
_Bene._ Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well
at my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.
_Marg._ Will you, then, write me a sonnet in praise of
my beauty?
_Bene._ In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living 5
shall come over it; for, in most comely truth, thou deservest
it.
_Marg._ To have no man come over me! why, shall I
always keep below stairs?
_Bene._ Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound’s mouth; 10
it catches.
_Marg._ And yours as blunt as the fencer’s foils, which
hit, but hurt not.
_Bene._ A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not hurt a
woman: and so, I pray thee, call Beatrice: I give thee the 15
bucklers.
_Marg._ Give us the swords; we have bucklers of our own.
_Bene._ If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the
pikes with a vice; and they are dangerous weapons for maids.
_Marg._ Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think 20
hath legs.
_Bene._ And therefore will come. [_Exit Margaret._
[_Sings_] The god of love,
That sits above,
And knows me, and knows me, 25
How pitiful I deserve,—
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