4. THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH was first published in Quarto in 1600 with the following title-page: THE | Second part of Henrie | the fourth, continuing to his death, | _and coronation of Henrie_ | the fift. | With the humours of sir Iohn Fal-| _staffe, and swaggering_ | Pistoll. | _As it hath been sundrie times publikely_ | acted by the right honourable, the Lord | Chamberlaine his seruants. | _Written by William Shakespeare._ | LONDON | Printed by V. S. for Andrew Wise, and | William Aspley. | 1600. | In some copies of the Quarto the first scene of Act III. is left out altogether. The omission seems to have been discovered after part of the edition had been struck off and rectified by the insertion of two new leaves. In order to make this insertion, the type was taken to pieces in part of the preceding and subsequent leaves, so that there are two different impressions for the latter part of Act II. and the beginning of Act III. Sc. 2. Where this difference occurs we have used the symbols Q₁, and Q₂; where the two are identical we use only Q. The version in the first Folio was probably printed from a transcript of the original MS. It contains passages of considerable length which are not found in the Quarto. Some of these are among the finest in the play, and are too closely connected with the context to allow of the supposition that they were later additions inserted by the author after the publication of the Quarto. In the MS. from which that edition was printed, these passages had been most likely omitted, or erased, in order to shorten the play for the stage. The Folio in other places affords occasional readings which seem preferable to those of the Quarto, but for the most part the Quarto is to be regarded as having the higher critical value. * * * * * 5. KING HENRY THE FIFTH appears in its present form for the first time in the Folio of 1623. An imperfect edition in quarto was printed surreptitiously in 1600, with the following title: (Q₁). The | Cronicle | History of Henry the fift, | With his battell fought at _Agin Court_ in | France. Togither with _Auntient_ | _Pistoll._ | _As it hath bene sundry times playd by the Right honorable_ | _the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants._ | LONDON Printed by _Thomas Creede_, for Tho. Milling-|ton, and Iohn Busby. And are to be | sold at his house in Carter Lane, next | the Powle head. 1600. | The text of this edition is given literatim at the end of the present volume, with the readings of two reprints which appeared in 1602 and 1608 respectively. The title-pages of these are as follows: