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
12: [Exeunt Ladies.] Q Ff (after line 16). Capell (after line 17).
Dyce (after line 14).
23: Leon.] Q F1. Old. F2 F3 F4. Ant. Rowe.
30: _In the_] Q F1. _I’th_ F2 F3 F4.
_state_] _estate_ Johnson.
31: _friar,_] om. F3 F4.
33: _Here...Claudio_] Q. omitted in Ff.
34: SCENE X. Pope.
and...others] and...other. Q. with attendants. Ff.
45: _all Europa_] Q F1 F2. _so all Europe_ F3 F4. _all our
Europe_ Steevens conj.
50: _And got_] Q F3 F4. _A got_ F1 F2.
52: SCENE XI. Pope.
_comes_] Q Ff. _come_ Rowe.
Re-enter...] Enter brother, Hero, Beatrice, Margaret, Ursula. Q Ff.
54: This line is given to _Leonato_ in Q Ff, to _Antonio_ first by
Theobald.
58: _hand: before......friar,_] Pope. _hand before...friar,_ Q Ff.
60: [Unmasking.] Rowe.
63: _defiled_] Q. om. Ff. _belied_ Collier MS.
69: _you_] _thee_ F3 F4.
74: _Why, no_] _Why_ F3 F4. _No_ Steevens.
75, 76: Printed as Prose in Ff.
76: _they swore_] Q Ff. _for they did swear_ Hanmer. _for they
swore_ Capell.
77: _Troth_] om. Steevens.
79: _did swear_] _swore_ Collier MS.
80: _that_] Q. om. Ff.
81: _that_] Q. om. Ff.
82: _such_] Q. om. Ff.
94: _not_] _yet_ Theobald, _now_ Hanmer.
96: _I was told_] Q F1 F2 _as I told_ F3 F4 _as I was told_ Rowe.
97: Given to Leonato in Q Ff, corrected by Theobald.
[Kissing her.] Theobald.
99: _wit-crackers_] _witte-crackers_ Q F1 F2. _witty-crackers_ F3
F4.
102: _a’_] _a_ Q Ff, Collier. _he_ Rowe.
103: _purpose_] _propose_ Reed (1803).
105: _what_] Q F3 F4. om. F1 F2.
112: _do_] _no_ F4.
116: _afterward_] Q F2. _afterwards_ F2 F3 F4.
117: _play,_] Pope. _play_ Q Ff.
118: _there is no_] _No_ S. Walker conj., making a verse.
122: _thee_] _the,_ F4.
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NOTES.
NOTE I.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. Rowe and Pope included in the list of Dramatis
Personæ, ‘Innogen, wife to Leonato.’ At the beginning of the first
scene the Quarto and the Folios have, ‘Enter Leonato Governour of
Messina, Innogen his wife, &c.’ and at the beginning of Act II. Sc.
I, ‘Enter Leonato, his brother, his wife, &c.’ But as no reference is
made to such a character throughout the play, Theobald was doubtless
right in striking the name out. The author probably, as Theobald
observed, had designed such a character in his first sketch, and
afterwards saw reason to omit it. It is impossible to conceive that
Hero’s mother should have been present during the scenes in which the
happiness and honour of her daughter were at issue, without taking a
part, or being once referred to.
NOTE II.
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