The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
[beb086] _uncurable_] _incurable_ Pope (ed. 2). ¶ _discomfit_]
_discomfite_ Ff. _discomfort_ Capell conj.
[beb087] _parts_] _pow’rs_ Hanmer. _party_ Warburton. _friends_ Collier
MS.
[bec001] SCENE III.] Steevens. SCENE VII. Pope. Scene IV.
Capell. Theobald continues the scene. ¶ Fields......] Malone. Fields
without the Town. Capell. ¶ bec001: _Of_] _Old_ Collier (Collier MS.),
from (Qq).
[bec003] _brush_] _bruise_ Warburton. ¶ _of_] F1 F2. _off_ F3 F4.
[bec004] _brow_] _blow_ Johnson conj. _browse_ Becket conj. _bloom_
Collier (Collier MS.). _glow_ Anon. conj.
[bec008] _holp_] _holpe_ F1. hope F2 F3 F4.
[bec012] _a_] F1 F2. _an_ F3 F4.
[bec014] _as he is, look_] _as he is,--Look_ Delius conj.
[bec016] _By the_] _By’ th’_ F1 F2 F3. _By th’_ F4.
[bec019] _imminent_] F1 F2. _eminent_ F3. _Eminent_ F4.
[bec027] _them?_] F2 F3 F4. _them:_ F1.
[bec029] _faith_] (Qq) Malone. _hand_ Ff.
[bec032] _drums_] (Qq) Hanmer. _drumme_ F1 F2. _drum_ F3 F4.
[bec033] _these_] _this_ Hanmer.
NOTES TO II KING HENRY VI.
NOTE I.
I. 1. 62. This passage, which is printed as prose in the Quartos,
is arranged and read by Capell thus:
‘And girt thee with the sword.--
Cousin of York, we here discharge your grace
From being regent in the parts of France,
’Till term of eighteen months be full expir’d.--
Thanks, uncle Winchester, Gloster, York, and Buckingham,
Somerset, Salisbury, and Warwick, thanks:
We thank you, &c.’
NOTE II.
I. 3. 208. Theobald inserts here two lines from the old play:
_‘K. Hen._ Then be it so: My Lord of Somerset,
We make your Grace Regent over the French.’
We have omitted them, agreeing with Capell, Malone, Mr Knight, Mr
Collier, and Mr Grant White, that their insertion is not absolutely
necessary. Besides Shakespeare would hardly have left so lame a line
as the second unaltered. It is possible that some such line as the
following may have dropped out:
_‘King._ Then be it so: this is King Henry’s doom.’
NOTE III.
I. 4. At the commencement of this scene Rowe, and Pope in his first
edition, inserted the stage direction ‘Flourish’ which belongs to the
end of the previous scene. Pope, in his second edition, omitted it
altogether, and Theobald restored it to its right place.
NOTE IV.
II. 1. 84. Having recorded up to this point throughout the scene
all the cases in which the arrangement of the lines in the Folios is
defective, we have thought it unnecessary to do so any more, except
where there is any doubt as to what the true arrangement should be. The
restoration of the metre is, in almost all instances, due to Pope.
NOTE V.
II. 1. 125–132. In the first Folio this passage stands as follows:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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