The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
[226] _past; as I will_] _past; * * * as I will_ Warburton, who
supposes a line to be lost. _past; as I will be_ Capell conj. _past,
so I will by thee_ Staunton conj.
[229] _scurvy lord_] _scabby lord_ Collier conj.
[238, 239] _he ... whom_] _he my good lord, whom_ Rowe (ed. 2). _he,
my good lord, whom_ Pope.
[239] _whom_] _he whom_ Capell.
[243] _o'_] Rowe (ed. 2). _a_ Ff.
[246] _methinks't_] Dyce (S. Walker conj.). _methink'st_ Ff.
_methinks_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[253, 254] _commission ... heraldry_] Ff. _heraldry ... commission_
Hanmer. _condition ... heraldry_ Collier (Collier MS.).
[256] SCENE VIII. Pope.
[257] Re-enter B.] Enter Count Rossillion. Ff (after line 255).
[259] _What's_] _What is_ F4.
[260, 261] _Although ... her_] Printed as prose in Ff, as verse first
by Rowe (ed. 2).
[265, 266] _France ... wars_] Printed as verse in Ff, as prose by
Pope.
[266] _wars!_] _wars, Bertram!_ or _wars, Rousillon!_ Anon. conj.
[271] _kicky-wicky_] _kickie wickie_ F1. _kicksie wicksie_ F2 F3.
_kicksy wicksy_ F4. _kicksy-winsy_ Collier conj.
[274, 275] _regions France_] Pope. _regions, France_ Ff. _regions!
France_ Capell.
[282] _war_] _warres_ F1.
[283] _detested_] Rowe. _detected_ Ff. See note (XI).
[286] _to-morrow_] _even to-morrow_ Hanmer. _betimes to-morrow_
Steevens conj.
[290] _her bravely; go_] _her; bravely go_ Delius.
SCENE IV. _Paris. The King's Palace._
_Enter_ HELENA _and_ CLOWN.
_Hel._ My mother greets me kindly: is she well?
_Clo._ She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's
very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks be given,
she's very well and wants nothing i' the world; but yet
she is not well. 5
_Hel._ If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's
not very well?
_Clo._ Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things.
_Hel._ What two things?
_Clo._ One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send 10
her quickly! the other, that she's in earth, from whence
God send her quickly!
_Enter_ PAROLLES.
_Par._ Bless you, my fortunate lady!
_Hel._ I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine
own good fortunes. 15
_Par._ You had my prayers to lead them on; and to
keep them on, have them still. O, my knave, how does
my old lady?
_Clo._ So that you had her wrinkles, and I her money, I
would she did as you say. 20
_Par._ Why, I say nothing.
_Clo._ Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's
tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say nothing, to
do nothing, to know nothing, and to have nothing, is to be
a great part of your title; which is within a very little of 25
nothing.
_Par._ Away! thou'rt a knave.
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