III. 3. 10. _George Seacole._ For ‘George’ Mr Halliwell reads ‘Francis.’ But ‘Francis Seacole,’ mentioned III. 5. 52, is the sexton, and, as it would appear, town-clerk also, too high a functionary to be employed as a common watchman. If the same person had been intended, the error would have been analogous to that in the _Merry Wives of Windsor_, where Master Page is christened ‘Thomas’ in one place and ‘George’ in another. NOTE XVII. III. 3. 115, 116. Here Rowe, contrary to his custom, does not alter ‘a’ into ‘he.’ We do not in all cases notice these perpetually recurring variations. NOTE XVIII. III. 3. 119. Mr Halliwell says that he has found ‘raine’ for ‘vaine’ in one copy of the first Folio. NOTE XIX. III. 4. 8, 17. The recurrence of this phrase makes it almost certain that the omission of ‘it’ is not a printer’s error, but an authentic instance of the omission of the third personal pronoun. So the first, or second, is omitted in III. 4. 51; ‘What means the fool, trow?’ For other instances, see Sidney Walker’s _Criticisms_, Vol. I. p. 77 sqq. And compare note XI, _Measure for Measure_. NOTE XX. III. 4. 29. _say, ‘saving your reverence, a husband.’_ The Quarto and Folios punctuate thus: _say, saving your reverence a husband_. Modern editions have _say, saving your reverence, ‘a husband.’_ But surely Margaret means that Hero was so prudish as to think that the mere mention of the word ‘husband’ required an apology. NOTE XXI. IV. 1. 154–157. _Hear me...mark’d._ This commencement of the Friar’s speech comes at the bottom of page, sig. G. i. (r) of the Quarto. The type appears to have been accidentally dislocated, and the passage was then set up as prose. The Folio follows the Quarto except that it puts a full stop instead of a comma after ‘markt.’ Some words were probably lost in the operation, giving the Friar’s reason for remaining silent, viz. that he might find out the truth. The whole passage would therefore stand as follows: Hear me a little; for I have only been Silent so long and given way unto This course of fortune . . . . . By noting of the lady I have mark’d, &c. The usual punctuation: And given way unto this course of fortune, By noting of the lady: I have mark’d, &c. makes but indifferent sense. ‘I have only been silent’ may mean ‘I alone have been silent.’ NOTE XXII. IV. 2. 1. The Quarto and Folios agree, with slight differences of spelling, in the stage direction given in the note. The Town Clerk is clearly the same functionary as the Sexton mentioned in the second line.