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
‘And fully even these three dayes have I watcht,
If I could see them. Now Boy doe thou watch,
For I can stay no longer.’
Pope omits the words ‘For...longer.’
Malone has:
‘And even these three days have I watched,
If I could see them.
Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.’
Mr Collier:
‘And even these three days have I watch’d, if I
Could see them.
Now, do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.’
NOTE V.
III. 2. 17. All editors previous to Capell, except Hanmer, follow
the Folios in making Reignier speak without having brought him on the
stage, and all subsequent editors follow Capell in giving Reignier’s
speeches to Alençon, without noting that he had made any change. Hanmer
altered Alençon to Reignier in the stage-direction, line 16, and
Reignier to Alençon in the stage-direction, line 40.
NOTE VI.
V. 1. 17. However plausible the emendation _kin_ may seem, we leave
_knit_, the reading of the Folios, as the conceit suggested by the
‘knot of amity,’ in the preceding line, is not alien from the author’s
manner. Mr Collier, in a note to his second edition, says: “Mr Singer
is obliged to admit that it has been proposed to read ‘near _kin_ to
Charles.’ Where has it been so proposed? In the corrected Folio, 1632,
which Mr Singer has always such a wish to ignore. The emendation was
never suggested (not even in Mr Singer’s corrected Folio, 1632) until
it appeared in our volume of ‘Notes and emendations,’ p. 277.”
In fact, it was first suggested by Pope, and adopted by Theobald,
Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson. Capell restored _knit_, in which he was
followed by Steevens and Malone.
NOTE VII.
V. III. 75. This and other speeches which follow are marked by Pope
and subsequent editors as spoken aside, but this is so obvious that
we have not thought it necessary to encumber our pages with marginal
directions.
NOTE VIII.
V. 4. 121. Malone, followed by Singer, Mr Collier, and Herr Delius,
attributes the emendation ‘prison’d’ for ‘poison’d’ to Pope. Mr
Staunton rightly assigns it to Theobald.
THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH.
DRAMATIS PERSONƆ.
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