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
‘O, farewel, Warwick!
_War._ Sweet rest his soul!--Fly, lords, and save yourselves;
For Warwick bids farewel, to meet in heaven.’
Rann:
‘O, farewel, Warwick!
_War._ Sweet rest his soul!--
Fly, lords, and save yourselves; Warwick bids you
All farewel--to meet in heaven.’
In his edition of 1778 Steevens followed Pope’s arrangement; restoring,
however, ‘Sweet’ for ‘Sweetly’ and omitting ‘again.’
Steevens in later editions gives:
‘O, farewell, Warwick!
_War._ Sweet rest to his soul!--
Fly, lords, and save yourselves; for Warwick bids
You all farewell to meet again in heaven.’
The arrangement which we have adopted is exactly that of the Quartos.
Mr Collier was the first of modern editors to introduce it in his text.
NOTE X.
V. 5. We have adhered in the stage directions as nearly as possible
to the Folios, which throughout the play mark no division of the
scenes, except at the end of an Act. Rowe first omitted the _Exeunt._
Theobald, who also continued the scene, gave _Alarm. Retreat.
Excursions. Both Parties go out. Re-enter King Edward_, &c.
Capell first made a new scene here and, altering the relative position
of the stage directions, gave _Exeunt both the Armies._ SC. V.
_Alarums; Excursions; afterwards a Retreat. Then, Enter, as from
Conquest, King Edward, &c._
Capell’s arrangement has, as usual, been followed by subsequent
editors.
NOTE XI.
V. 5. 77, 78.
‘Where is that devil’s butcher,
Hard-favour’d Richard? Richard, where art thou?’
The reading we have given in the text is that of Steevens, which
appears to be nearest the corresponding passage of the Quartos.
The first Folio has:
‘Where is that diuels butcher _Richard_?
Hard fauor’d _Richard_? _Richard_, where art thou?’
The second Folio:
‘Where is that divels butcher _Richard_
Hard favor’d _Richard_? _Richard_, where art thou?’
The third and fourth put a comma after the first ‘_Richard_,’ the third
reading ‘devils,’ the fourth ‘devil’s.’ Rowe follows the Folios.
Pope has:
‘where is that Devil’s butcher,
Richard? hard-favour’d Richard, where art thou?’
Theobald:
‘where is that Devil-butcher,
Richard? hard-favour’d Richard, where art thou?’
Capell:
‘Where is that butcher, Richard?
Hard-favour’d Richard? Richard, where art thou?’
NOTE XII.
V. 6. We have retained the stage direction of the Folios ‘on the
walls’ instead of adopting Capell’s alteration ‘a Room in the Tower’,
as it seems likely that the mistake lies in the expression ‘another
room’ which was retained from the older play, the author forgetting
that he had changed the scene to the walls.
NOTE XIII.
V. 7. 25. The copy of the first Folio belonging to Lord Ellesmere has
in this place ‘add’ for ‘and.’ In line 27, the same copy reads ‘’tis’
for ‘kis,’ which latter is the word found so far as we know in all
other copies.
NOTE XIV.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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