Chapter XLIX: Act I

SC. 1. "The Council shall hear _of_ it; it is a riot."

The metre requires _of_, which makes the expression more idiomatic. Sir Hugh naturally omits it.

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"And I thank you always with my heart la!"

The folio reads '_love_ you'; the correction is Farmer's. So also in Shallow's next speech.

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SC. 3. "The good humour is to steal at a minute's rest."

As "_minim's_ rest" occurs in Rom. and Jul. ii. 1, Langton and Collier's folio would so read here; but it may be, and probably is, a mere blunder of Nym's.

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"He hath studied her well, and translated her well."

The folio reads _will_; in both places the 4tos have 'well' in the first, and omit it in the last.

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"Hold, sirrah, bear you these _two_ letters tightly."

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"For the revolt of mine is dangerous."

For 'the' we must, with Pope, read _this_. We have, "For this revolt of thine" (Hen. V. ii. 1). Theobald, whom some critics follow, read _mien_ for 'mine,' which I utterly reject. (See on Two Gent. ii. 4.) I do not think 'revolt' occurs anywhere in the sense of mere change.