Each of these Quartos was printed from its immediate predecessor. The third however contains an important addition, found in all the extant copies of Q₃, amounting to 165 lines, viz. IV. 1. 154-318. This is what is meant by 'the new additions of the Parliament scene' mentioned in the title-pages of some copies of Q₃ and in that of Q₄. These 'new additions' are found also in the first and following Folios and in Q₅. The play, as given in the first Folio, was no doubt printed from a copy of Q₄, corrected with some care and prepared for stage representation. Several passages have been left out with a view of shortening the performance. In the 'new additions of the Parliament Scene' it would appear that the defective text of the Quarto had been corrected from the author's MS. For this part therefore the first Folio is our highest authority: for all the rest of the play the first Quarto affords the best text. The fifth Quarto (Q₅) was printed from the second Folio (F₂), but its readings sometimes agree with one or other of the earlier Quartos, and in a few cases are entirely independent of previous editions. Its title-page is as follows: The | Life and | Death of King | Richard the | Second. | With new Additions of the | _Parliament Scene_, and the | Deposing of King _Richard_. | As it hath beene acted by the Kings Majesties | Servants, at the _Globe_. | By _William Shakespeare_. | London, Printed by Iohn Norton. | 1634. | * * * * * 3. THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH appeared in six successive Quarto editions before the publication of the first Folio. The title-pages of the first five of these editions are given in full below. The version in the first Folio seems to have been printed from a partially corrected copy of the fifth Quarto. In many places the readings coincide with those of the earlier Quartos, which were probably consulted by the corrector. The title of the play in the Folio is, 'The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed Hotspurre.' As there is no copy of the fourth Quarto in the Capell collection, our collation has been made from the copy in the Bodleian, and verified by that in the Devonshire Library. The deficiencies of Capell's copy of the third Quarto have been supplied by a collation of the Bodleian copy of that edition. Q₁. The | History of | Henrie the | Fovrth; | With the battell at Shrewsburie, | _betweene the King and Lord_ | Henry Percy, surnamed | Henrie Hotspur of | the North. | _With the humorous conceits of Sir_ | Iohn Falstalffe. | AT LONDON, | Printed by _P. S._ for _Andrew Wise_, dwelling | in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of | the Angell. 1598. |