The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
That is (says Capell) by delivering him, as it appears they did by some
words of the Poet himself, p. 85 (_i.e_. IV. 4. 23), where the earl of
Fife is spoken of as making a part of Hotspur's army at Shrewsbury.
NOTE V.
I. 1. 75-77. The first and second Quartos read:
'A gallant prize? Ha coosen, is it not? In faith it is.
_West._ A conquest for a Prince to boast of,'
leaving a blank between 'not?' and 'In faith.' The subsequent Quartos
and the Folios have the same reading without the blank. Pope reads:
'A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not?
_West._ In faith, a conquest for a prince to boast of.'
Rann has, for the second line,
'_West._ 'Faith 'tis a conquest for a prince to boast of,'
a reading which Malone by mistake assigns to Pope.
Malone himself gives:
'_West._ In faith, it is a conquest for a prince
To boast of.'
Capell reads:
'_West._ It is a conquest for a prince to boast of.'
Dr Nicholson proposes:
'A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not,
In faith?
_West._ A conquest for a prince to boast of.'
For, he says, 'In faith' sounds too familiar to be addressed by a
subject to his king.
NOTE VI.
I. 2. 56. "Here," says Mr Dyce, "all the old copies, I believe, have
'--when thou art _a_ king' &c. but erroneously." Four of the Quartos,
the first, second, seventh and eighth, have 'when thou art king,' which
is unquestionably the right reading.
NOTE VII.
I. 2. 97. The first and second Quartos read as in the text. The third
and following Quartos and the Folios print _Poines_ in italics, as if
the words 'Now shall we know ... true man' were spoken by him.
NOTE VIII.
I. 2. 148. Theobald was the first to suggest that Harvey and Rossill
were the names of the actors who performed the parts of Peto and
Bardolph. But in II. 4. 165, 167, 171 for '_Ross._' which is found
in the Quartos the Folios substitute not '_Bard._' but '_Gad._' i.e.
'_Gadshill_.'
NOTE IX.
I. 2. 175. Steevens claimed as his own conjecture the reading
'to-night,' which Capell had adopted in his text. Mr Knight punctuates,
'and meet me. To-morrow night, &c.'
NOTE X.
II. I. 6, 11. Either the article or the pronoun was intentionally
omitted in these passages, in order to give rusticity to the carriers'
language. The Folios supply the article in the former passage, but
leave the latter untouched.
NOTE XI.
II. I. 72. We have recorded Jackson's conjecture in this passage as a
curiosity. Its full value can only be appreciated by reading his own
explanation. In many other cases the emendations of Becket and Jackson
are quoted as amusing instances of the licence which they permitted
themselves.
NOTE XII.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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