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
_Shep._ Heavy matters! heavy matters! but look thee here,
boy. Now bless thyself: thou mettest with things dying, I 105
with things new-born. Here's a sight for thee; look thee,
a bearing-cloth for a squire's child! look thee here; take up,
take up, boy; open't. So, let's see: it was told me I should
be rich by the fairies. This is some changeling: open't.
What's within, boy? 110
_Clo._ You're a made old man: if the sins of your youth
are forgiven you, you're well to live. Gold! all gold!
_Shep._ This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so: up
with't, keep it close: home, home, the next way. We are
lucky, boy; and to be so still requires nothing but secrecy. 115
Let my sheep go: come, good boy, the next way home.
_Clo._ Go you the next way with your findings. I'll go
see if the bear be gone from the gentleman and how much
he hath eaten: they are never curst but when they are
hungry: if there be any of him left, I'll bury it. 120
_Shep._ That's a good deed. If thou mayest discern by that
which is left of him what he is, fetch me to the sight of him.
_Clo._ Marry, will I; and you shall help to put him i'the
ground.
_Shep._'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't. 125
[_Exeunt._
LINENOTES:
SCENE III.] SCENE VI. Pope.
Bohemia. A desert.... ] Malone. om. Ff. A desert Country; the Sea at a
little distance. Rowe.
[Enter A.... ] Rowe. Enter Antigonus, a Mariner, Babe,
Shepherd, and Clown. Ff.
[2] _my lord_] om. Hanmer.
[3] _We have_] _We've_ Pope.
[6] _upon's_] _upon us_ Capell.
_Go, get_] _go get_ F1. _get_ F2 F3 F4. _get thee_ Rowe.
[9] _upon_] _on_ Hanmer.
[14] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.
[19] _a waking_] _awaking_ Anon. conj.
[20] _on_] F1. _is on_ F2 F3 F4.
_some_] _some'_ Capell.
_another_] _on other_ Anon. conj.
[22] _becoming_] _becomming_ F1. _o'er-running_ Collier (Collier MS.).
[29] _thrower-out_] _thower-out_ F1.
[32] _weep_] _wend_ Collier (Collier MS.).
[39] _so_] _sooth_ Warburton conj.
[44] _Polixenes_] _Polexenus_ F2.
[46] _its_] _it's_ Ff.
[Laying down the child. Rowe.
[47] [Laying down a bundle. Johnson.
[48] _please ... pretty_] _please, both breed thee (pretty)_ Ff.
_please, both breed thee pretty,_ Reed (1813). _please both breed
thee, (pretty!)_ Staunton.
_pretty_] _pretty one_ Rowe.
[54] _thou'rt_] _thou art_ F4.
[58] Enter....] Ff. Enter an old Shepherd. Rowe. Enter a Shepherd.
Crooke. Collier MS.
[59] SCENE VII. Pope.
_ten_] _thirteen_ Hanmer. _sixteen_ Edd. conj. See note (X).
[64] _scared_] _scarr'd_ Ff.
[67] _an't_] Pope (ed. 2). _and't_ Ff.
_thy will_] F1. _the will_ F2 F3 F4.
[68] _here?_] _here?_ [taking up the child. Rowe.
[69] _boy_] _god_ Grant White.
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