Chapter XIII: Act V (2)

[bdb181] _are_] _are are_ F2. ¶ _toward_] F1 F2. _towards_ F3 F4.

[bdb183] _forward._] _forward, lads!_ Capell conj., reading 182, 183 as two lines of verse, the first ending _we are_. ¶ [Exeunt.] Exeunt Cade and his Party. Theobald. om. Ff.

[bdc001] SCENE III.] Capell. ¶ Another part of Blackheath.] The same. Another part of it. Capell. om. Ff. ¶ Alarums...] Ff. ¶ Enter......] Ff. Re-enter...... Theobald.

[bdc005] _will I_] F1. _wil I_ F2. _I will_ F3 F4.

[bdc006] _again_] om. Warburton.

[bdc007] _hundred lacking one_] _hundred lacking one, a week_ Malone, from (Qq). _hundred years lacking one_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[bdc010], bdc011: [putting on...brigandine] Edd., from Holinshed. taking off Stafford’s Armour. Capell. om. Ff.

[bdc012] _horse_] F1 F2. _horses_ F3 F4. _horse’s_ Rowe. _horse’_ Dyce (S. Walker conj.).

[bdc014] _thrive and do good,_] _thrive, do good;_ Johnson conj. _thrive and do well_ Delius conj.

[bdc015] _gaols_] _gaoles_ F1 F2. _goals_ F3 F4.

[bdd001] SCENE IV.] Pope. om. Ff. ¶ London. The palace.] London. A Room in the Palace. Capell. Blackheath. Pope. om. Ff. ¶ Enter...] Ff. ¶ and the Queen...head] at a Distance Queen Margaret mourning over a Head. Capell.

[bdd012] _shall_] _should_ Rowe.

[bdd022] _Still lamenting_] _Lamenting still_ Pope. ¶ _for_] om. Pope.

[bdd023] _fear me, love,_] _fear me (Love)_ Ff. _fear, my love,_ Capell, from (Qq).

[bdd024] _wouldest not_] Theobald. _would’st not_ F1. _would’st not halfe_ F2 F3 F4 (_half_ F3 F4).

[bdd025] _No, my_] _My_ Pope. _No_ Capell.

[bdd029] _Clarence’_] _Clarence_ F1 F2 F3. _Clarence’s_ F4.

[bdd039], bdd044: _Killingworth_] _Kenelworth_ Capell.

[bdd042] _would_] F1. _should_ F2 F3 F4.

[bdd043] _traitors hate_] F2 F3 F4. _traitors hateth_ F1. _traitor rebel hateth_ Capell. _traitor hateth_ Steevens. ¶ _thee_] _thee specially_ Anon. conj.

[bdd048] _may_] _can_ Capell conj.

[bdd049], bdd050: Malone ends the lines at _citizens...houses_. ¶ bdd049: _London bridge_] _London-bridge, my lord_ Capell.

[bdd050] _fly_] _flye_ F1. _flye him_ F2 F3 F4 (_fly_ F4). ¶ _houses_] _houses as he comes_ Keightley, reading _Fly...comes_ as one line.

[bdd057] _the_] F1. _to_ F2 F3 F4.

[bdd058] _be_] om. F1.

[bde001] SCENE V.] Pope. ¶ London. The Tower.] London. Pope. The same. The Tower. Capell. ¶ Enter...enter...] F4. Enter...enters... F1 F2 F3.

[bde002] First Cit.] 1 Cit. Ff. ¶ _likely_] _like_ F4. ¶ bde002–bde005: _No......rebels_] As prose by Pope. As five lines in Ff.

[bde009] _to...and gather_] F1. _into...and gather_ F2 F3 F4. _into...gather_ Pope.

[bde010] _I will_] _will I_ F3 F4. ¶ _Goffe_] F1 F2 F3. _Goff_ F4. _Gough_ Capell.

[bde012] _for......again_] _rebellion never thrives_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[bdf001] SCENE VI.] Capell. om. Ff. Pope continues the scene. ¶ London. Cannon Street.] Cannon-Street. Theobald. ¶ Enter...] Ff. ¶ staff] sword Capell, from (Qq). ¶ bdf001–bdf006: _Now...Mortimer._] As prose by Pope. As seven lines in Ff.

[bdf004] _this_] F1. _the_ F2 F3 F4.

[bdf009] _ye_] _you_ Rowe.

[bdf013]–bdf015: _Come...away._] As prose by Pope. As four lines in Ff.

[bdf015] [Exeunt.] Exeunt omnes. Ff.

[bdg001] SCENE VII.] Capell. om. Ff. Pope continues the scene. ¶ London. Smithfield.] Smithfield. Theobald.

[bdg002] _court_] _courts_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[bdg007], bdg014: Holl.] John. Ff. ¶ bdg007, bdg009, bdg014: ‘Aside’ marked first by Capell.

[bdg010] _eating_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

[bdg014] _we are_] _are we_ S. Walker conj.

[bdg017] SCENE VI. Pope. SCENE VIII. Hanmer.

[bdg018] _towns_] _town_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[bdg019] Enter George Bevis...] Steevens. Enter George... Ff.

[bdg022] _point-blank_] _point-black_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[bdg023] _giving_] _the giving_ Capell conj.

[bdg024] _Mounsieur_] _Monsieur_ F4.

[bdg025] _these presence_] _these presents_ F4.

[bdg035] _peace_] _the peace_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[bdg037] _they_] _thy_ F2.

[bdg040] _in_] F1. _on_ F2 F3 F4.

[bdg048] _What_] _Well, what_ Hanmer. ¶ _Kent?_] F3 F4. _Kent._ F1 F2.

[bdg049] _’tis_] om. Hanmer.

[bdg051] _where_] F3 F4. _wher’e_ F1 F2.

[bdg054] _because full_] _beauteous, full_ Hanmer.

[bdg055] _wealthy_] _worthy_ Hanmer.

[bdg056] _you are_] F1. _thou art_ F2 F3 F4.

[bdg058] _Yet_] _Yea_ Malone conj.

[bdg061], bdg062: _hands, But to...you?_] Rann (Johnson conj.). _hands? Kent to...you_, Ff. _hands, Bent to...you?_ Steevens conj. _hands? ’Cept to...you?_ Mason conj. _hands, Kent to...you?_ Malone. _hands, Kent?--To...you_, Jackson conj. _hands, Kent, to...you?_ Collier.

[bdg064] _book_] _books_Anon. conj.

[bdg068] _You_] _Ye_ F4.

[bdg070] _behoof_,--] Capell. _behoof._ Ff.

[bdg071] _Tut_] _Tut, tut_ Hanmer. _struck’st_] _struckest_ Dyce.

[bdg073] _never_] _neve_ F2.

[bdg075] _pale for_] F1. _pale with_ F2 F3 F4.

[bdg080] _caudle_] F4. _candle_ F1 F2 F3. ¶ bdg080, bdg081: _the help of hatchet_] F1. _the help of a hatchet_ F2 F3 F4. _pap with a hatchet_ Farmer conj. _the pap of a hatchet_ Steevens.

[bdg083] _the palsy_] _It is the palsy_ Anon. conj. from (Qq). ¶ _provokes_] _provoketh_ Hanmer.

[bdg095]–bdg097: _I feel...life_] Marked as ‘Aside’ first by Capell.

[bdg096] _an_] Pope. _and_ Ff.

[bdg098] _speaks_] _speake_ F2. ¶ _not_] _not_, Capell. ¶ _o’_] Theobald. _a_ Ff.

[bdg100] _James_] _William_ Ritson conj.

[bdg107] [Exeunt...] Hanmer. om. Ff.

[bdg108] _in the_] F1 F2. _of the_ F3 F4.

[bdg110] _to me_] F1 F2. _me_ F3 F4.

[bdg117] Re-enter...] Enter... Ff. Re-enter Rebels, with the Heads. Capell.

[bdg118]–bdg124. _But...Away!_] As prose by Theobald. As nine lines in Ff. ¶ bdg118: _braver_] _brave_ F4.

[bdg119] _alive_] _alive_ [jowl them together. Collier MS.

[bdg124] [Exeunt.] Rowe. Exit. Ff.

[bdh001] SCENE VIII.] Capell. SCENE VII. Pope. SCENE IX. Hanmer. ¶ Southwark.] Theobald. ¶ Enter...] Enter againe... Ff. ¶ bdh001: _Magnus’_] Warburton. _Magnus_ Theobald. _Magnes_ Ff.

[bdh002], bdh003. [Sound a parley.] Parley sounded; afterwards, a Retreat. Capell.

[bdh003], bdh004: _What...kill?_] As prose first by Hanmer. As three lines, ending _heare?...parley...kill?_ in Ff.

[bdh004] attended] Theobald. om. Ff.

[bdh005] _Ay, here_] Rowe. _I heere_ F1 F2. _I here_ F3 F4.

[bdh010] _relent_] _repent_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[bdh012] _rebel_] Singer (Collier MS. and Anon. MS.), _rabble_ Ff.

[bdh020] _him_] _’em_ Theobald. _them_ Hanmer.

[bdh023] _White Hart_] _White-hart_ F4. _White-heart_ F1. _white-heart_ F2 F3.

[bdh024] _ye_] _you_ Rowe (ed. 2). ¶ _out_] _over_ S. Walker conj.

[bdh031] As two lines in Ff.

[bdh044] _Villiago_] Ff. _Villageois_ Theobald. _Viliaco_ Dyce and Staunton (Capell conj.).

[bdh049] _money_] _mercy_ Warburton.

[bdh053]–bdh057: _Was ever......staying._] Marked ‘Aside’ by Dyce and Staunton.

[bdh058] _middest_] _midst_ F4.

[bdh061] _makes_] F1. _make_ F2 F3 F4.

[bdh066] Exeunt.] Exeunt omnes. Ff.

[bdi001] SCENE IX.] Capell. SCENE VIII. Pope. SCENE X. Hanmer. ¶ Kenilworth Castle.] The Palace at Killingworth. Theobald. ¶ terrace.] Tarras. Ff.

[bdi006] old Clifford.] Capell. Clifford. Ff.

[bdi009] below, multitudes,] Multitudes Ff. below, the Soldiers of Cade’s army, Capell.

[bdi010] _He is_] _He’s_ Pope.

[bdi018] _infortunate_] F1 F2. _unfortunate_ F3 F4.

[bdi021] _countries_] _counties_ Delius conj.

[bdi022] [Exeunt. Hanmer.

[bdi025] _a mighty_] F1 F2. _mighty_ F3 F4. _united_ Collier MS.

[bdi026] _Of_] _Of desp’rate_ Hanmer. _Of nimble_ Capell. ¶ _stout_] _stout Irish_ Collier (Mitford conj.). ¶ _kernes_] _kernes, he_ Keightley conj.

[bdi029] _arms_] _Armes_ F1. _Armies_ F2 F3 F4. _aims_ Singer (Dyce conj. withdrawn).

[bdi033] _calm’d_] F4. _calme_ F1. _claimd_ F2. _claim’d_ F3. _cramp’d_ Becket conj. _chas’d_ S. Walker conj.

[bdi034] _dispersed_] _dispers’d_ F4. _dispierc’d_ F1 F2 F3.

[bdi036] _I pray...go_] _Go, I pray thee, Buckingham,_ Staunton conj. ¶ _go and meet him_] Ff. _go and meet with him,_ Rowe. _to go and meet him_ Malone. _go forth and meet him_ Steevens. _then go and meet him_ Collier (Collier MS.). _go thou and meet him_ Dyce conj.

[bdi049] _For_] _Or_ Seymour conj. ¶ [Flourish.] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

[bdj001] SCENE X.] Steevens. SCENE IX. Pope. SCENE XI. Hanmer. ACT V. SCENE I. Capell. ¶ Kent. Iden’s garden.] Capell. A Garden in Kent. Pope. ¶ Cade.] F1 F2. Jack Cade. F3 F4. ¶ bdj001: _ambition_] F2 F3 F4. _ambitions_ F1.

[bdj003] _these_] _those_ Capell conj.

[bdj004] _so_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

[bdj006] _on_] _o’er_ Hanmer.

[bdj010], bdj011: _brain-pan_] _brain-pain_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[bdj012] _bravely_] _toil’d_ by Lettsom conj.

[bdj014] Enter Iden.] Ff. Enter Iden, with Servants. Steevens, from (Qq). See note (XI).

[bdj018] _and_] _and’s_ Rowe. _and is_ Malone.

[bdj019] _waning_] _waining_ Rowe (ed. 2). _warning_ Ff.

[bdj023], bdj024: _Here’s...leave._] Marked ‘Aside’ by Dyce and Staunton.

[bdj024] _Ah,_] _Ah_ F3 F4. _A_ F1 F2.

[bdj025] _a thousand_] _a 1000._ Ff.

[bdj034] [Enter five Servants. Anon. conj.

[bdj035] _ay,_] om. Pope.

[bdj037], bdj038: _five men_] (Qq) Ff. _fine men_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[bdj038] _all_] om. Rowe.

[bdj041] _an esquire_] _’squire_ Capell.

[bdj043] _steadfast-gazing_] Capell. _stedfast gazing_ Ff.

[bdj051] _As for words_] _As for more words_ Rowe. _As for mere words_ Mason conj. _But as for words_ Anon. conj. ¶ _words...words,_] _wordes--(whose...wordes?_) Becket conj. ¶ bdj051, bdj052: _As...what_] _As for more words, let this my sword report (Whose greatness answers words) what_ Hanmer.

[bdj054] _the edge] thine edge_ F4.

[bdj055] _chines] chaines_ F2.

[bdj056] _God_] Malone, from (Qq). _Jove_ Ff.

[bdj057] [Here they fight.] Ff. ¶ Cade falls. Capell. om. Ff.

[bdj065] _thee] thou_ Jackson conj.

[bdj069] _that_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4. _which_ Rowe.

[bdj076] _in_] om. Lloyd conj.

[bdj080] _off_] _of_ F4.

[bdj082] [Exit.] Ff. Exit, dragging out the Body. Capell. Exeunt, Iden dragging out the body, and Servants. Dyce.

[bea001] ACT V. SCENE I.] Pope. ACT V. SCENE II. Capell. ¶ Fields...Blackheath.] Malone. In the Fields near London. Pope. Fields near St Alban’s. Capell. ¶ Enter...] Ff. Two Camps pitch’d, the King’s, and Duke of York’s; on either side, one. Enter York, attended. Capell.

[bea005] _sancta majestas_] _majesty_ Pope. _santa maestá_ Capell conj. from (Qq).

[bea006] _them...know_] Rowe. _them...knowes_ F1 F2. _them...knows_ F3 F4. _him...knows_ Capell conj.

[bea008] _I cannot_] _It cannot_ Delius conj.

[bea010] _soul_] F3 F4. _soule_ F1 F2. _sword_ Johnson conj.

[bea011] _flower-de-luce_] _fleure-de-luce_ F1 F2. _floure-de-luce_ F3 F4.

[bea021] _Should_] _Should’st_ Theobald.

[bea023]–bea031: _Scarce...strong._] Marked ‘Aside’ by Rowe.

[bea027] _or oxen_] _and oxen_ Capell.

[bea032] _Buckingham_] F1. _O Buckingham_ F2 F3 F4.

[bea039] _arms_] _aims_ Collier conj.

[bea043] _prisoner._] F1 F4. _prisoner?_ F2 F3.

[bea055] [Exeunt. Hanmer.

[bea056] SCENE II.] Pope. Scene changes to the King’s Pavilion. Theobald. ¶ Enter...] Ff. Enter.... Re-enter Buckingham and York, attended. Theobald.

[bea060] _intends_] F1 F2 F3. _intend_ F4.

[bea061] _heave_] (Qq) F1 F2. _have_ F3 F4.

[bea063] _Who_] F1. _Whom_ F2 F3 F4. ¶ _heard_] _hear_ Capell.

[bea065] _pass_] _press_ S. Walker conj.

[bea071] _art thou_] _wast thou_ Capell conj.

[bea072] _an’t_] Ff.

[bea074] _Alexander Iden_] _Ev’n Alexander Iden_ Hanmer. _Iden, Alexander Iden_ Edd. conj. ¶ _Alexander...name_] _My name is Alexander Iden, sir_ Capell conj. ¶ _name;_] _name, my liege;_ Keightley conj.

[bea075] _loves his_] F1. _loves the_ F2. _love the_ F3 F4.

[bea076] _it_] om. F4.

[bea077] _his_] _this_ S. Walker conj.

[bea078] _down._ [He kneels.] _Rise_] Johnson. _downe, rise_ Ff. _down; and rise thou_ Hanmer.

[bea082] [Rises.] Collier (Collier MS.).

[bea083] SCENE III. Pope. ¶ _See...Somerset_] _See, Buckingham! see who_ Capell conj.

[bea093] _not king_] F1. _no king_ F2 F3 F4.

[bea094] _govern and rule_] _rule and govern_ S. Walker conj.

[bea095] _darest_] _dar’st_ F1. _durst_ F2 F3 F4.

[bea099] _these_] F1. _the_ F2 F3 F4.

[bea100] _smile and frown_] _frown and smile_ Delius conj. ¶ _like to_] F1. _like_ F2 F3 F4.

[bea103] _act_] _enact_ Capell conj.

[bea109]–bea111: Theobald (Warburton) reads in this order: _Sirrah...bail; Wouldst...man._ ¶ bea109: _kneel?_] _kneel?_ [pointing to his Troops, and Attendants. Capell. ¶ _these_] Theobald. _three_ Id. conj. _thee_ Ff. _them_ Hanmer.

[bea111] _sons_] _sonne_ F1. ¶ _bail_] F3 F4. _bale_ F1. _baile_ F2. [Exit...] Capell om. Ff.

[bea113] _for_] F2 F3 F4. _of_ F1.

[bea116] [Exit Buckingham.] Capell. om. Ff. Exit an Attendant. Dyce.

[bea120] _bail_] F3 F4. _baile_ F1 F2. ¶ _bane_] _bale_ Theobald.

[bea121] _boys!_] Dyce. _boyes._ F1 F2 F3. _boys._ F4. ¶ Enter...] Ff.

[bea122] Enter...son.] Enter Clifford. Ff. Drums. Enter, from one side, the Lords Edward and Richard, Sons to York; and, from the other, Old Clifford and his Son; Forces with them both. Capell, from (Qq).

[bea124] [Kneels.] Johnson.

[bea125] _I_] _We_ (Qq) Capell.

[bea126] _us_] F1. _me_ F2 F3 F4.

[bea130] _mistakest_] F2 F3 F4. _mistakes_ F1.

[bea135] _chop_] F1. _crop_ F2 F3 F4.

[bea139] Edw.] F1 F2. Edm. F3 F4.

[bea143] _thy_] F1 F2. _the_ F3 F4.

[bea146] _fell-lurking_] _fell-barking_ Roderick conj. _fell-lurching_ Heath conj. _fell-looking_ Collier (Collier MS.). _fell lurking_ Capell.

[bea147] Enter...] Drums. Enter W. and S., with Forces. Capell.

[bea148] SCENE IV. Pope. ¶ _bait_] F3 F4. _bate_ F1. _baite_ F2.

[bea149] _bear-ward_] _berard_ F1 F2. _bearard_ F3 F4.

[bea150] _baiting_] F3 F4. _bayting_ F1 F2.

[bea152] _Run_] _Turn_ Hanmer.

[bea153] _being_] _having_ Collier (Collier MS.). ¶ _with_] _within_ Keightley conj.

[bea154] _between_] _betwixt_ F4.

[bea156] _oppose_] F1 F2. _suppose_ F3 F4.

[bea157] Clif.] Y. C. (i. e. Young Clifford). Capell.

[bea169] _dig...war_] _find out war to dig a grave_ Roderick conj.

[bea170] _shame_] _stain_ S. Walker conj.

[bea174] _mickle_] F1. _milckie_ F2. _milky_ F3 F4.

[bea175] _consider’d_] Pope. _considered_ Ff.

[bea181] _an oath_] _a vow_ Capell.

[bea189] _this_] _his_ F4.

[bea194] _or_] Rowe (ed. 2). _and_ Ff.

[bea195], bea198, bea208: Clif.] Old Clif. Ff.

[bea196] _to go_] _go_ Rowe.

[bea201] _household_] Malone, from (Qq). _housed_ F1. _houses_ F2 F3 F4.

[bea202] _badge_] _age_ Capell, from (Qq).

[bea203] _ragged_] _rugged_ Warburton.

[bea207] _to_] Rowe (ed. 2). _io_ F1. _so_ F2 F3 F4.

[bea210] _bear-ward_] _bearard_ Ff.

[bea211] _to arms_] _to arms, to arms_ Anon. conj. ¶ _victorious_] F1. _victorious noble_ F2 F3 F4.

[bea212] _the rebels_] _these traitors_ (Qq) Capell.

[bea216] [Exeunt severally.] Theobald. Exeunt. Ff. ¶ SCENE II.] Steevens. SCENE V. Pope. SCENE III. Capell. ¶ Saint Alban’s.] Capell. The Battle at St. Albans. Pope. ¶ Alarums to the battle.] (Qq). om. Ff.

[beb002] _And if_] _An if_ Capell conj.

[beb004] _dead men’s cries_] (Qq) Ff. _dy’ng mens cries_ Rowe. _dying cries_ Roderick conj.

[beb008] _noble_] om. Johnson.

[beb011] _Carrion kites_] _carrion, kytes_ F4.

[beb012] Enter old Clifford.] Enter Clifford. Ff.

[beb019] As two lines, the first ending _Yorke?_ in Ff.

[beb024] _now_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

[beb027] _lay_] F1 F2. _day_ F3 F4. ¶ [They...falls.] Capell. Fight. Pope. Omitted in Ff.

[beb028] _couronne les œuvres_] _corrone les eumenes_ F1. _corronne les oevres_ F2 F3 F4. ¶ [Dies.] Ff. They fight and Clifford falls and dies. Collier.

[beb031] _confusion! all_] Pope. _confusion all_ Ff.

[beb036] _soldier_] _souldier_ F1. _souldiers_ F2 F3 F4.

[beb038] _nor_] _for_ Pope.

[beb040] [Seeing his dead father] Theobald. om. Ff.

[beb041] _premised_] _promised_ Delius conj.

[beb042] _earth and heaven_] _heaven and earth_ Staunton.

[beb045] _ordain’d_] F1. _ordained_ F2 F3 F4. ¶ _dear_] _deere_ F1. _O deere_ F2. _O dear_ F3 F4.

[beb059] _Absyrtus_] Theobald. _Absirtis_ Ff. _Absirtus_ Rowe.

[beb065] [Exit...father.] Pope. Exit. Rowe. om. Ff. ¶ Somerset is killed.] Rowe. Omitted in Ff.

[beb066] See note (XII).

[beb067] _For_] _Fall’n_ Johnson conj. ¶ _an alehouse’ paltry_] _a paltry alehouse_ Anon. conj. from (Qq).

[beb071] [Exit.] Theobald. om. Ff.

[beb072] SCENE VI. Pope.

[beb074] _nor fight_] F1 F2. _not fight_ F3 F4.

[beb078] _should_] _shall_ Johnson.

[beb080] _we_] _me_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[beb082] _where_] _were_ F2.

[beb083] Re-enter young C.] Dyce. Enter C. Ff. Other Alarums. Enter young C. Capell.

[beb084] Y. Clif.] Clif. Ff. ¶ _heart’s_] F2 F3 F4. _hearts_ F1.

[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:

‘Then Saunder, sit there,
The lying’st Knave in Christendome.
If thou hadst beene borne blind,
Thou might’st as well haue knowne all our Names,
As thus to name the seuerall Colours we doe weare.
Sight may distinguish of Colours:
But suddenly to nominate them all,
It is impossible.
My Lords, Saint _Albone_ here hath done a Miracle:
And would ye not thinke it, Cunning to be great,
That could restore this Cripple to his Legges againe.’

Pope alters the first four lines thus:

‘Saunder, sit there, the lying’st knave in christendom.
If thou hadst been born blind,
Thou might’st as well know all our names, as thus
To know the several colours we do wear.’

The following is Hanmer’s reading of the first six lines:

‘Then, Saunder, sit thou there, the lying’st knave
In christendom. If thou hadst been born blind,
Thou might’st as well know all our names, as thus
To know the several colours we do wear.
Sight may distinguish colours: true, but suddenly
To nominate them all, it is impossible.’

In the rest of the scene several arbitrary changes have been made by different editors for the sake of the metre.

NOTE VI.

II. 2. 45, 46. The first Folio has the whole passage thus:

‘His eldest Sister, _Anne_,
My Mother being Heire vnto the Crowne,
Marryed _Richard_, Earle of Cambridge,
Who was to _Edmond Langley_,
_Edward_ the thirds fift Sonnes Sonne;
By her I clayme the Kingdome:
She was Heire to _Roger_, Earle of March,
Who was the Sonne of _Edmond Mortimer_
Who marryed _Phillip_, sole Daughter
Vnto _Lionel_, Duke of Clarence.’

The later Folios follow the first, except that in the seventh line they read ‘She then was’ for ‘She was.’

Rowe read, ‘Who was son to Edmond Langley,’ but made no other change; and Pope followed him.

Theobald read:

‘Who was the son to Edmond Langley,
Edward the Third’s fifth son.’--

and arranged the following lines as they are found in our text.

Hanmer:

‘Who was the son of Edmund Langley,
Edward the Third’s fifth son’s son, and by her
I claim the kingdom, for she then was heir
To Roger &c.’

It was Capell who arranged the earlier lines of the speech as we have given them. Steevens, as usual, adopted his arrangement without acknowledging the obligation.

Mr Collier, in his first edition, read:

‘Married Richard Earl of Cambridge; who was
To Edmond Langley Edward the third’s fifth son, son.’

NOTE VII.

III. 1. We retain here Salisbury and Warwick among the persons who enter to the parliament, because they are found both in the Folios and Quartos. In the latter their ‘exeunt’ is also marked. Capell was the first to omit them because they do not speak throughout the scene.

NOTE VIII.

III. 2. 11. The murderer’s answer _’Tis_, which Rowe changed to _Yes_ without authority, shows that we ought to retain the _Is_ of the first Folio notwithstanding the grammatical inaccuracy. In the Quartos the murderer says, ‘All things _is_ hansome now my Lord.’

NOTE IX.

III. 2. 26. We have left ‘Nell’ in the text as the mistake is, in all probability, Shakespeare’s own. He was thinking of the Duchess of Gloucester. Oddly enough neither Rowe nor Pope discovered the blunder. Shakespeare again wrote ‘Elianor’ or ‘Elinor’ for ‘Margaret’ in the 79th, the 100th, and 120th lines of this scene. In _Henry V._ V. 1. the author has made a similar mistake and written ‘Doll’ for ‘Nell.’ See also note VII on _The Two Gentlemen of Verona_.

NOTE X.

III. 2. 182. This is a striking example of the way in which corrections were made in the successive Folios; _i.e._ by mere guess-work, without reference to the first. The true reading escaped the notice of all editors before Capell.

NOTE XI.

IV. 10. 14. By comparing this scene as it stands in the Quartos with that of the Folios it will appear that Shakespeare, in remodelling it, intended that Iden should be alone when he encountered Cade, as his first speech is evidently a soliloquy; and after he has killed Cade he disposes of the body with his own hands. Shakespeare omitted, however, to strike out the reference to the ‘five men’ in line 36.

Steevens who brought the servants on the stage forgot to send them off it. The mistake remained uncorrected down to Mr Dyce’s first edition.

Another example of Shakespeare’s incomplete alteration of the Quarto has been pointed out by Malone at V. 1. 56.

NOTE XII.

V. 2. 66. Malone, referring to the corresponding passage of the Quartos, supposes that a line has been omitted, to the following effect:

‘Behold, the prophecy is come to pass;
For, &c.’

THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH.

DRAMATIS PERSONƆ.

KING HENRY the Sixth. EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, his son. LEWIS XI. KING OF FRANCE. DUKE OF SOMERSET. DUKE OF EXETER. EARL OF OXFORD. EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND. EARL OF WESTMORELAND. LORD CLIFFORD. RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of York. his sons: EDWARD, Earl of March, afterwards King Edward IV., EDMUND, Earl of Rutland, GEORGE, afterwards Duke of Clarence, RICHARD, afterwards Duke of Gloucester, DUKE OF NORFOLK. MARQUESS OF MONTAGUE. EARL OF WARWICK. EARL OF PEMBROKE. LORD HASTINGS. LORD STAFFORD. uncles to the Duke of York. SIR JOHN MORTIMER, SIR HUGH MORTIMER, HENRY, Earl of Richmond, a youth. LORD RIVERS, brother to Lady Grey. SIR WILLIAM STANLEY. SIR JOHN MONTGOMERY. SIR JOHN SOMERVILLE. Tutor to Rutland. Mayor of York. Lieutenant of the Tower. A Nobleman. Two Keepers. A Huntsman. A Son that has killed his father. A Father that has killed his son. QUEEN MARGARET. LADY GREY, afterwards Queen to Edward IV. BONA, sister to the French Queen.

Soldiers, Attendants, Messengers, Watchmen, &c.

SCENE: _England and France._

────────── † DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. First given, imperfectly, by Rowe.

THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI.