Chapter XXXII: Act V: SCENE I. Salisbury. An open place (4)

[fde009] _renowned_] _renowmed_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5.

[fde010] _Sir William_] _and Sir William_ Pope.

[fde011] _redoubted_] _doubted_ Q4.

[fde012] _And_] Ff. om. Qq.

[fde013] _moe_] _other_ Ff. _more_ Q7 Q8. _others_ Warburton. ¶ _noble fame_] Qq. _great name_ Ff.

[fde014] _they do_] Qq. _do they_ Ff. ¶ _course_] Qq. _power_ Ff.

[fde016] _thy_] Q1 Ff. _my_ the rest.

[fde019] _These letters_] Qq. _My letter_ Ff. _Those letters_ Capell. See note (XXII.)

[fea001] ACT V. SCENE I.] Actus Quintus. Scena Prima. Ff. ¶ Salisbury.] Pope. ¶ An open place.] Capell. The Market-place Grant White. ¶ Enter...] Rowe. Enter Buckingham to execution. Qq. Enter Buckingham with Halberds, led to Execution. Ff.

[fea002], fea011: Sher.] Ff. Rat. Qq. ¶ fea002: _my good lord_] Ff. _my lord_ Qq. _good my lord_ Rowe.

[fea003] _Rivers, Grey_] _Rivers, Gray_ Qq. _Gray & Rivers_ Ff.

[fea010] _fellows_] Qq. _fellow_ Ff.

[fea011] _my lord_] Qq. om. Ff.

[fea012] _Why...doomsday_] omitted by Pope.

[fea013] _that_] Qq. _which_ Ff.

[fea014] _on_] _one_ Q7.

[fea015] _or_] _and_ Ff Q8.

[fea017] _I trusted most_] Qq. _whom most I trusted_ Ff.

[fea018] _This, this_] _This is_ Q7 Q8.

[fea019] _Is_] _This_ Pope, omitting line 18, _This...soul._ ¶ _respite_] _despite_ Q7 Q8. _respect_ Warburton. _restrict_ Becket conj.

[fea020] _That high_] _What high_ Q2. ¶ _that I_] Qq. _which I_ Ff. _whom I_ Capell.

[fea023] _swords_] Q1 Q2 Ff. _sword_ Q3 Q4 Q6 Q7 Q8. _sowrd_ Q5.

[fea024] _own_] Q1 Q2 Ff. The rest omit. ¶ _on_] Qq. _in_ Ff. ¶ _bosoms_] Ff. _bosome_ Qq.

[fea025] _Now_] Qq. _Thus_ Ff. ¶ _is fallen...head_] Qq. _falles heavy on my necke_ Ff. _falls heavy on my head_ Pope.

[fea028] _Come, sirs, convey me_] Qq. _Come lead me Officers_ Ff.

[fea029] [Exeunt.] om. Qq. Exeunt Buckingham with Officers. Ff.

[feb001] Scene II.] Scena Secunda. Ff. ¶ The camp...] Hanmer. The Camp. Pope. On the borders of Leicestershire. A Camp. Theobald. ¶ Enter...] Ff. Enter Richmond with drums and trumpets. Qq.

[feb007] _The wretched_] _The recklesse_ Collier (Collier MS.). _The raged_ Anon. conj.

[feb008] _spoil’d_] _spoils_ Capell. ¶ _summer fields_] Ff. _somer-fieldes_ Q1. _summer-fields_ Q2. _sommer-field_ the rest.

[feb009] _Swills...makes_] _Swill’d...made_ Pope.

[feb010] _bosoms_] _bosome_ Q7 Q8.

[feb011] _Lies now_] Qq. _Is now_ Ff. ¶ _centre_] _centry_ F1.

[feb014] _cheerly_] Q1 Ff. _Cheere_ or _cheare_ the rest.

[feb017] Oxf] Ff. 1 Lo. Qq. ¶ _swords_] Qq. _men_ Ff.

[feb018] _that bloody_] Qq. _this guilty_ Ff.

[feb019] Herb.] Her. Ff. 2 Lo. Qq. ¶ _fly_] Qq. _turne_ Ff.

[feb020] Blunt.] Blun. Ff. 3 Lo. Qq. ¶ _who_] _what_ Ff Q8.

[feb021] _greatest_] Qq. _deerest_ Ff. ¶ _shrink_] Qq. _flye_ Ff.

[feb022] _vantage_] _advantage_ Q7 Q8.

[feb024] _makes_] _make_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. ¶ [Exeunt.] Exit. Q1. Exeunt omnes. Ff. the rest omit.

[fec001] SCENE III.] Pope. ¶ Bosworth Field.] Pope. ¶ Enter...] Enter King Richard, Norffolke, Ratcliffe, Catesbie, with others. Qq. Enter King Richard in Armes, with Norfolke, Ratcliffe, and the Earle of Surrey. Ff. ¶ fec001: _tents_] Qq. _tent_ Ff.

[fec002] _My...sad_] Ff. _Whie, how now Catesbie, whie lookst thou so bad._ Q1. _Whie, how now Catesbie, why lookest thou so sad?_ the rest.

[fec003] Sur.] Ff. Cat. Qq.

[fec004] _My Lord...liege_] Ff. _Norffolke, come hither_ Qq (_hether_ Q1).

[fec005] _Norfolk...not?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fec006] _gracious_] Qq. _loving_ Ff.

[fec007] _there_] om. Ff Q7 Q8.

[fec008] _all’s_] Ff. _all is_ Qq.

[fec009] _foe_] Qq. _traitors_ Ff.

[fec010] _utmost power_] Ff. _greatest number_ Qq.

[fec011] _battalion_] Q1 Q4 Q6. _battailon_ Q2 Q3 Q5. _battalia_ Ff. _battalian_ Q7 Q8.

[fec012] _the_] _that a_ Q7 Q8.

[fec013] _party_] Qq. _faction_ Ff.

[fec014] _my tent there! Valiant_] _my tent there, valiant_ Qq. _the tent: come noble_ Ff.

[fec015] _of_] _or_ Q8. ¶ _field_] Qq. _ground_ Ff.

[fec017] _want_] Qq. _lacke_ Ff.

[fec018] Enter......and others.] Enter Richmond...and Dorset. Ff. Enter Richmond with the Lordes, &c. Qq (Richard Q8). ¶ on the other side...] Capell. om. Ff. ¶ and others] Capell. ¶ Some...tent] Capell, substantially. ¶ fec018: Scene changes to another part of Bosworth field. Theobald. ¶ _set_] Ff. _sete_ Q1. _seate_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _seat_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fec020] _track_] Qq. _tract_ Ff.

[fec021] _signal_] Qq. _token_ Ff.

[fec022] _Sir...standard_] Ff. _Where is Sir William Brandon, he shall beare my standerd_ Qq.

[fec023]–fec026: _Give...strength._] Arranged as in Ff. See note (XXIII). ¶ fec023, fec024: _paper in my tent: I’ll_] _paper; in my tent I’ll_ Pope.

[fec026] _strength_] Qq. _power_ Ff.

[fec027], fec028: _My Lord...with me_] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[fec029] _keeps_] Ff. _keepe_ Qq.

[fec033] _good Blunt, before thou go’st_] Qq. _(good captain) do for me_ Ff.

[fec034] _dost thou_] _doest thou_ Qq. _do you_ Ff.

[fec035] _colours_] _quarters_ Warburton.

[fec037] _lies_] Q1 Q2 F1 F3 F4. _liet_ Q3 Q5. _lieth_ Q4 Q6 Q7 Q8. _lyes_ F2.

[fec040] _Good......to him_] Qq. _Sweet Blunt, make some good meanes to speak with him_ Ff.

[fec041] _scroll_] _scrowle_ Qq. _note_ Ff.

[fec042] _life_] _selfe_ F2 F3 F4.

[fec043] _And so...to-night_] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[fec044] _Good...gentlemen_] Two lines in Ff.

[fec046] _In to our_] Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _Into our_ Q6 Q7. _Into my_ Ff. _In our_ Q8. ¶ _air_] Qq. _dew_ Ff. ¶ [They withdraw...] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ Enter, to his tent...] Capell. SCENE changes back to King Richard’s Tent. Enter... Theobald. ¶ Catesby, and others.] Catesby &c. Q1 Q2. Catesby. the rest.

[fec047], fec048: _What is’t...nine o’clock_] Ff. _What is a clocke._ Cat. _It is sixe of clocke, full supper time._ Qq (_of the_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8.) ¶ _It’s supper-time...nine o’clock._] As in Pope. One line in Ff.

[fec048] _It’s nine_] _It’s six_ Dyce (Steevens conj.) from Qq. ¶ fec048, fec049: _I will...paper._] As in Ff. As one line in Qq.

[fec049] _Give......paper._] Omitted by Pope.

[fec053] _charge_] _charge, away_ Capell.

[fec054] _sentinels_] _Centinels_ Ff. _Centinell_ Qq.

[fec057] [Exit.] Ff. om. Qq.

[fec058], fec059: _Catesby!_ Cat. _My lord?_] As in Pope. _Catesby!_ Rat. _My lord._ Qq. _Ratcliffe._ Rat. _My lord._ Ff.

[fec062] [Exit Catesby.] Edd. om. Qq Ff.

[fec063] [To Ratcliff. Pope. To Catesby. Capell. ¶ _watch_] _watch-light_ Keightley conj.

[fec065], fec066: _Look......Ratcliff_] As in Rowe (ed. 2). As one line in Qq Ff.

[fec068] _Saw’st thou_] Qq. _Saw’st_ Ff.

[fec070] _about_] _like_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fec072] _So, I am_] _I’m_ Pope. ¶ fec072–fec075: _So, I am...Set_] _I’m...So, set_ Capell. _I’m...There, set_ Pope.

[fec074] _cheer_] _cleare_ Q6 Q7.

[fec076] _Leave me. Ratcliff,_] _and leave me._ Pope. _So leave me._ Keightley conj.

[fec077] _mid_] _midst_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fec078] _arm me_] _arme_ F3. _arm_ F4. _arm me, Ratcliff_ Capell. ¶ _Leave me_] _Leave me now_ Pope. ¶ [Exeunt......] Edd. Exit Ratcliffe. Qq Ff. K. Richard retires into his tent. Exeunt Ratcliffe and Catesby. Malone. ¶ Enter...attending.] Edd. Enter Darby to Richmond in his tent. Qq Ff (Derby Ff).

[fec079] SCENE III. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE IV. Pope (ed. 2). ¶ _sit_] _set_ Q1.

[fec082] _Tell me,_] _Tell me, I pray_ Collier (Collier MS.). ¶ _fares_] _fares it with_ Hanmer. ¶ _loving_] Q1 Q2. _noble_ the rest. ¶ _mother_] _mother now_ Keightley conj.

[fec085] _that. The_] Ff. _that the_ Q1. _that: the_ the rest.

[fec086] _And_] _A_ Q6 Q7.

[fec090] _mortal-staring_] Steevens. _mortall staring_ Qq Ff. _mortal-fearing_ Capell. _mortal-scaring_ Malone conj. _mortal starry_ Becket conj. _mortal-staving_ Jackson conj. _mortal-stabbing_ Staunton conj. _mortal-daring_ Anon. conj.

[fec095] _brother, tender_] Ff. _brother tender_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _tender brother_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fec097] _Farewell: the leisure_] _Farewell: The lack of leisure_ Anon. conj. ¶ _leisure_] _lesion_ Becket conj.

[fec100] _sunder’d_] _sundred_ Ff Q7 Q8. _sundried_ Q1 Q2. _sundired_ Q3 Q4. _sundered_ Q5 Q6.

[fec101] _us_] _on_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _for_] _of_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _rites_] Ff. _rights_ Qq.

[fec104] _with troubled thoughts_] Qq. _with troubled noise_ Ff. _troubled with noise_ Grant White.

[fec105] _peise_] Qq. _peize_ F1 F2. _poize_ F3 F4.

[fec107] _gentlemen_] _gentilemen_ Q7. ¶ [Exeunt......] Exeunt. Manet Richmond Ff. Exunt. Q1 Q2. Exeunt. the rest.

[fec109] _on_] _one_ Q7. ¶ _forces with a gracious eye_] _force with thy gracious eyes_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fec111] _a_] om. Q7 Q8.

[fec112] _helmets_] _helmet_ Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fec114] _the_] Q1 Q2 Q6 Q7 Q8. _thy_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Ff.

[fec117] [Sleeps.] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ Enter...]Enter...young Prince Edward, sonne Harry the sixt, to Ri. Q1. yoong Prince Edward,... to Ri. Q2.

[fec118] SCENE IV. Between the Tents of Richard and Richmond: They sleeping. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE V. Pope (ed. 2).

[fec119] _stab’dst_] _stabb’dst_ Rowe. _stabst_ Qq. _stab’st_ F1 F2. _stabb’st_ F3 F4. ¶ _my prime_] _the prime_ F3 F4.

[fec120] _despair, therefore_] _therefore despair_ Pope. ¶ _therefore_] om. Q7 Q8.

[fec121] _Be...souls_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fec122] _butcher’d_] Ff. _butchered_ Qq.

[fec125] _deadly_] Q1. Omitted in the rest.

[fec127] _Harry_] Qq F1. _Henry_ F2 F3 F4.

[fec130] _in thy sleep: live_] Qq. _in sleepe: Live_ Ff. _in sleep: live thou_ Rowe (ed. 2). _in sleep: live, live_ Anon. conj. _in sleep; flourish and live_ or _in thy sleep; now live and flourish_ or _in slumber; live and flourish._ Keightley conj.

[fec131] _sit_] _set_ Q1. ¶ fec131, fec139: _on_] Q5 Q6 Q8. _one_ Q7. _in_ the rest.

[fec132] _wash’d_] _wak’d_ Jackson conj. ¶ _with_] _in_ F3 F4.

[fec139] Ghost of R.] King. Q1 Q2. Riu. the rest. ¶ _on_] _in_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4. _one_ Q7.

[fec143] _lance_] _hurtless lance_ Capell. _pointless lance_ Collier (Collier MS.). ¶ _despair_] _Richard, despair_ Pope.

[fec144] _Richard’s_] Q1 Ff Q8. _Ri._ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _Ric._ Q6. _Rich._ Q7.

[fec145] _Will_] _Wel_ Q1. ¶ _him_] Qq F1. om. F2 F3 F4. ¶ Hastings.] Q1 Q2. L. Hastings, the other Quartos. Lord Hastings. Ff. See note (XXIV).

[fec146] _guiltily_] Qq F1. _guilty_ F2 F3 F4.

[fec148] _despair_] _and despair_ Pope. _so despair_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[fec149] _Quiet...awake!_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fec151] _Dream...Tower:_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fec152] _lead_] Q1. _laid_ or _layd_ the rest.

[fec153] _thee_] _the_ Q6 F3.

[fec154] _souls bid_] Qq F4. _soule bids_ F1 F2 F3.

[fec155] _Sleep...joy;_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fec158] Lady Anne.] Q1 Q2. Queene Anne, the other Quartos. Anne, his Wife. Ff.

[fec159] _Richard...wife,_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fec161] _perturbations_] _preturbations_ Q1.

[fec162], fec163: _To-morrow...die!_] Spurious; the true lines being lost. Lettsom conj.

[fec163] _edgeless sword_] _powerless arm_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[fec164] _Thou...sleep:_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fec166] Enter the Ghost...] Enter the Ghosts... F2.

[fec167] _The first...crown;_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fec168] _thy_] _the_ Q7.

[fec173] _I...aid:_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ _for hope_] _for holpe_ Theobald conj. _forsoke_ Hanmer. _forholpe_ Steevens conj. _fore-done_ Tyrwhitt conj. _sore hope!_ Jackson conj.

[fec176] _falls_] Qq. _fall_ Ff. ¶ [The Ghosts vanish.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. ¶ King...dream.] Richard starteth up out of a dreame. Qq (starteth out Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. started out of his Q7 Q8). Richard starts out of his dreame. Ff.

[fec179] _coward_] See note (XXV).

[fec180] _It is now_] Q1. _It is not_ the rest. _Is it not_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[fec181] _stand_] _stands_ Q5.

[fec182]–fec203: _What do I...to myself?_] Ritson would put this passage in the margin. ¶ fec182: _What do I fear? myself?_] Q1. _What do I feare my selfe?_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. _What? do I feare my selfe?_ Ff.

[fec183] _Richard...am I_] omitted by Pope. ¶ _I am I_] _I and I_ Q1.

[fec185]–fec192: _Then fly...flatter._] Put in the margin by Pope. ¶ fec185: _fly._] _flie,_ Qq. _flye;_ F1. _flye?_ F2 F3 F4. ¶ _reason why:_] _reason why,_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. _reason whie?_ Q1. _reason why?_ Q2. _reason: why?_ Ff.

[fec186] _What,_] _What_ Qq. _What?_ Ff. om. Capell. ¶ _upon_] _on_ Pope.

[fec187] _Alack_] om. Pope.

[fec188] _I_] om. Q6 Q7 Q8. ¶ _have_] _hath_ Q7 Q8.

[fec191] _yet_] _yea_ Q8.

[fec192] _speak well: fool_] _speak--well Fool_ Rowe (ed. 1).

[fec196] _Perjury, perjury_] _Perjurie, perjurie_ Q1 Q2. _Perjurie_ (once only) the rest. _Perjury, foul perjury_ Collier (Collier MS.). ¶ _the_] om. Pope.

[fec199] _Throng_] Q1 Q2. _Throng all_ the rest. ¶ _bar] barrr_ Q6. _boare_ Q8. ¶ _crying all_] _all crying_ Pope.

[fec200] _shall_] _will_ Pope. ¶ _creature_] _creatuees_ F2. _creatures_ F3.

[fec202], fec203: _Nay...myself?_] Put in the margin by Pope. ¶ fec202: _Nay,_] Ff. _And_ Qq.

[fec204]–fec206: _Methought...Richard._] See note (XXVI). ¶ fec204: _had_] Q1 Ff. om. Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _have_ Q7 Q8.

[fec205] _Came_] _Came all_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. ¶ _one_] _on_ Q4.

[fec208] _’Zounds! who is_] Qq. _Who’s_ Ff.

[fec209] _Ratcliff_] om. Q7 Q8. ¶ _’tis I_] om. Pope.

[fec210] _twice_] _thrice_ Q7 Q8.

[fec212]–fec214: K. Rich. _O Ratcliff...my lord._] Qq. Omitted in Ff.

[fec213] _thinkest_] Capell. _thinkst_ Qq.

[fec214] _O_] om. Pope. ¶ _O...fear_] _O Ratcliff, I have dream’d a fearful dream._ Collier MS.

[fec219] _Armed_] _Arm’d all_ Cibber’s version.

[fec220] _It is_] Pope. _Tis_ or _’Tis_ Qq Ff. ¶ fec220, fec221: _me;...tents_] _me,...tents_ Qq F1 (_me,...tents,_ Q8). _me,...tents;_ F2 F3 F4.

[fec221] _eaves-dropper_] F4. _ease dropper_ Q1. _ewse dropper_ Q2. _ewse-dropper_ Q3. _eawse-dropper_ Q4. _ewese-dropper_ Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. _ease-dropper_ F1 F2 F3.

[fec222] _see_] Q1 Q2. _heare_ the rest. ¶ _mean to shrink_] Qq F1 F2 (_means to shrinke_ Q4). _man shrink_ F3 F4. ¶ [Exeunt.] Qq. Exeunt Richard & Ratliffe. Ff. ¶ Enter...] Ff. Enter the Lordes to Richmond. Qq. Richmond wakes. Enter Oxford, and Others, to him. Capell.

[fec223] SCENE V. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE IV. Pope, ed. 2 (a misprint). SCENE VI. Warburton.

[fec224] _Cry mercy_] Qq F1. _Cry you mercy_ F2 F3 F4. _I cry you mercy_ Pope.

[fec225] _a_] om. Q4.

[fec227] _The...dreams_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ _fairest-boding_] Theobald. _fairest boding_ Qq. _fairest boading_ Ff.

[fec230] _bodies_] _body_ Q7 Q8.

[fec231] _cried on victory_] Qq Ff. _cried out Victory_ Pope. _cried On! Victory_ Warburton.

[fec232] _soul_] Qq. _heart_ Ff.

[fec234] _morning_] _mourning_ Q8.

[fec236] [arms, and comes forth. Capell. ¶ His Oration...] Qq Ff. To his Troops; who now gather about the Tent. Capell.

[fec239] _upon_] _on_ Pope.

[fec242] _high-rear’d_] _high read_ Q4.

[fec243] _Richard except,_] _Richard, except_ Q1 Q2.

[fec248] _what_] _that_ Q7 Q8.

[fec249] _slaughter’d_] Ff. _slandered_ Q4. _slaughtered_ the rest.

[fec250] _foil_] _foile_ Q1 Q2. _soile_ Q3 Q4 Q5. _soyle_ Q6 F1 F2 Q7 Q8 F3. _soyl_ F4.

[fec254] _ward_] _reward_ Q8.

[fec255] _do_] om. Q6 Q7 Q8. ¶ _sweat_] _sweate_ Q1 Q2. _sweare_ the rest.

[fec258] _fat_] _fate_ Long MS.

[fec259] _do_] _stoe_ F2.

[fec262] _quit_] Pope. _quits_ Qq Ff.

[fec267] _attempt_] _attempt--_ Seymour conj.

[fec269] _trumpets_] _trumpet_ F2. ¶ _boldly and_] _boldly_ Pope. _bold_ Staunton.

[fec270] [Exeunt.] Shouts, &c. and Exeunt. Capell. om. QqFf. ¶ Re-enter...] Re-enter Richard, and Ratcliffe; Attendants, and Forces, with them. Capell. Enter King Richard, Rat. &c. Qq. Enter King Richard, Ratcliffe, and Catesby. Ff.

[fec271] SCENE VI. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE VII. Pope (ed. 2).

[fec275] _in the_] _i’ th’_ Pope. ¶ [The clock striketh.] Qq. Clocke strikes. Ff (Clockes F2).

[fec276], fec277: _Tell...to-day?_] As in Pope. As two lines in QqFf, ending _there...to day?_

[fec279] _braved_] _brac’d_ Jackson conj.

[fec280] _will it_] _it will_ Rowe (ed. 2). ¶ fec280, fec281: _somebody. Ratcliff!_] _somebody.--Ratcliff,--_ Capell. _some bodie Rat._ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6. _somebody. Ratcliffe._ Ff. _some body,_ Q7. _some body._ Q8.

[fec281] _Ratcliff_] Put in a separate line first by Johnson.

[fec288] _vaunts_] _vants_ Q4.

[fec293] _shall be drawn out all_] _battel shall be drawn_ Hanmer. ¶ _out all_] Q1. The rest omit.

[fec297] _this_] Q1 Q2. _the_ the rest.

[fec298] _we_] _we our self_ Pope. ¶ _follow_] _follow them_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[fec299] _whose puissance_] _which_ Pope.

[fec301] _This...Norfolk_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ _boot_] _bootes_ Q1 Q2. ¶ _think’st_] _think_ Rowe (ed. 2). ¶ _Norfolk_] _Norffolke_ Q1. _Nor._ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _not_ Q6 Q7 Q8. _Norfolke_ Ff.

[fec303] _This_] _This paper_ Pope. ¶ [He sheweth...] Qq. om. Ff. Giving a Scrowl. Rowe.

[fec304] K. Rich. [Reads] Capell. Reads. Rowe. om. QqFf. ¶ _too_] Capell. _to_ Q6 Q7 Q8. _so_ the rest.

[fec306] _A thing_] Capell. King. _A thing_ QqFf. ¶ [throws it away. Capell.

[fec307] _every man unto_] Qq. _every man to_ Ff. _go each man to_ Pope.

[fec308]–fec311: _Let not...law_] Spoken aside, Mason conj.

[fec309] _Conscience is but_] Q1 Q2. _For conscience is_ Ff. _Conscience is_ the rest.

[fec311] _conscience_] _consciences_ Q7. ¶ _swords_] _our swords_ Q7 Q8.

[fec312] _to ’t_] F4. _too ’t_ F1 F2 F3. _to it_ Q1 Q2 Q8. _too it_ Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7.

[fec314] [His oration...] Qq. Omitted in Ff. turning to his Troops. Capell.

[fec315] _whom_] _who_ Q7 Q8. ¶ _to cope_] _in cope_ Q7 Q8.

[fec316] _rascals, and_] _rascals,_ F2 F3 F4. _of rascals,_ Pope.

[fec317] _Bretons_] Capell. _Brittains_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _Brittaines_ Q6 F1 F2 Q7 Q8. _Britains_ F3 F4. _Britons_ Pope.

[fec319] _ventures and assured_] Capell. _adventures and assured_ Qq Ff. _adventures and_ Pope.

[fec320] _to you_] Q1. _you to_ the rest.

[fec322] _restrain_] _distrain_ Hanmer (Warburton).

[fec324] _Bretagne_] Hanmer. _Brittaine_ Qq. _Britaine_ F1 F2. _Britain_ F3 F4. ¶ _our mother’s_] _his mother’s_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _our brother’s_ Capell.

[fec325] _milk-sop_] F3 F4. _milkesopt_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _milkesope_ Q6. _milke-sop_ F1 F2 Q7 Q8.

[fec332] _conquer’d_] Rowe. _conquered_ Qq Ff.

[fec333] _these_] _those_ Rowe. ¶ _bastard Bretons_] Capell. _bastard Brittains_ or _Brittaines_ Qq. _bastard Britaines_ F1. _bastard Brittaines_ F2. _bastard-Britains_ F3 F4. _bastard-Britons_ Pope.

[fec335] _in record_] Q1 Q2. _on record_ the rest. ¶ _heirs_] _heire_ Q7.

[fec336] _lands_] _land_ Q8.

[fec337] _Ravish...drum_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ [Drum...] Ff. Omitted in Qq. ¶ _their_] _there_ Q7 Q8.

[fec338] _Fight_] Q1 Q2 Q8. _Right_ the rest. ¶ _bold_] Q1. _boldly_ the rest.

[fec339] _your_] _you_ Q7.

[fec341] Enter......] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[fec343] _come_] _come to you_ Capell.

[fec344] _Off_] _Off instantly_ Hanmer.

[fec351] _on_] _one_ Q7. ¶ _helms_] _helmes_ Q1 Q2 Q4 Q8. _helpes_ Q3 Q5 Q6 F1 F2 Q7. _helps_ F3 F4. ¶ [Exeunt.] Rowe. om. Qq. Ff. Drums, and Exeunt. Capell.

[fed001] SCENE IV.] Capell. SCENE VII. Pope (ed. 1). SCENE VIII. Pope (ed. 2). Scene continued in Ff. ¶ Another...] Capell. ¶ Alarum: excursions] Qq Ff. ¶ Enter Norfolk......] Capell. Enter Catesby. Qq Ff. ¶ fed001: _Rescue...rescue_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[fed003] _Daring an opposite_] _Daring and opposite_ Q8. _A daring opposite_ Warburton conj.

[fed006] Alarums...] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ Enter...] Enter Richard. Qq Ff.

[fed010] _die_] _day_ Qq.

[fed013] [Exeunt.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[fee001] SCENE V.] Dyce. Ff, Pope, Capell, &c. continue the Scene. ¶ Another part...] Dyce. ¶ Alarum. Enter...... Re-enter Richmond......] Alarum. Enter...... Enter Richmond...... Ff. Alarum, Enter Richard and Richmond, they fight, Richard is slain then retrait being sounded. Enter Richmond, Darby, bearing the Crowne, with other Lords Qq (Lords, &c. Q1). See note (XXVII). ¶ fee001: _God...friends_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. ¶ _arms_] _arme_ Q7.

[fee002] _dog_] _hog_ Anon, apud Rann conj.

[fee003], &c.: Der.] Stan. Pope. ¶ fee003, fee004: _Courageous...royalty_] As in Qq. As three lines in Ff, ending _Richmond...Loe...Royalties_.

[fee004] _this...royalty_] Q1. _this...roialties_ Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8. _these...royalties_ Ff.

[fee007] _enjoy it_] Q1 Q2. The rest omit. ¶ _make much_] _make use_ Rowe.

[fee009] _tell me_] _tell me first_ Pope. _tell me pray_ Keightley conj. ¶ _young_] _your son_ Capell.

[fee011] _if it please you_] Qq (_ift_ Q8). _if you please_ Ff. _if you so please_ Pope. ¶ _if...now_] _if you please we will withdraw us now_ Keightley conj. ¶ _now_] Qq. om. Ff.

[fee012] _name_] Qq F1 F2. _note_ F3 F4.

[fee013], fee014: _John...Brandon_] As prose in Qq. ¶ fee013: Der.] Ff. om. Qq. ¶ _Walter_] Ff Q6 Q7 Q8. _Water_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5. _Walter the_ Pope. ¶ _Ferrers_] Capell. _Ferris_ Qq Ff.

[fee014] _Brakenbury_] F4. _Brookenbury_ Q1 Q2. _Brokenbury_ the rest. ¶ _and_] om. Pope.

[fee015] _becomes_] Rowe. _become_ Qq Ff.

[fee020] _Smile heaven_] _Smile, heaven,_ Anon. conj. ¶ fee020, fee021: _heaven...have_] Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 F1 F2 F3. _heaven...hath_ Q6 Q7 Q8 F4. _heavens...have_ S. Walker conj.

[fee025] _rashly_] _madly_ Capell.

[fee026] _son....butcher....the_] _sonnes...butcher...the_ F2. _sons...butcher...the_ F3. _sons...butchers...the_ F4. _sons...butchers...their_ Johnson. ¶ _sire_] _father_ Q8.

[fee027], fee028: _All...division_] Put in the margin by Pope. ¶ fee027: _this_] _that_ Rann (Johnson conj.). ¶ fee027, fee028: _Lancaster, Divided_] _Lancaster. Divided_ Grant White.

[fee028] _Divided in their_] _Did usher in. Their_ Anon. conj. ¶ _division,_] Rann (Johnson conj.). _division._ Qq Ff.

[fee032] _their_] Q1 Q2 Q8. _thy_ the rest. ¶ _thy_] _they_ Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fee033] _smooth-faced_] _smooth-fac’d_ Ff. _smooth-faste_ Q1 Q2 Q3 Q5. _smooth-fast_ Q4. _smooth-fac’t_ Q6 Q7 Q8.

[fee034] _days_] _day_ Rowe (ed. 1).

[fee035] _Abate_] _Rebate_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[fee041] _here_] Q8 Ff. _heare_ the rest. ¶ [Exeunt.] Ff. om. Qq.

NOTES TO KING RICHARD III.

NOTE I.

The first and second Folios give the title of this play as follows: ‘The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field.’ The third and fourth Folios give the same except that for ‘Earle Richmond,’ they have ‘the Earl of Richmond.’ The running title in all is: ‘The Life and Death of Richard the Third.’

The Acts and Scenes are marked throughout in the Folios, but not in the Quartos.

NOTE II.

I. 1. 98–100. Pope reconstructed the whole passage thus:

‘What, fellow? nought to do with mistress _Shore?_
I tell you Sir, he that doth naught with her,
Excepting one, were best to do it secretly.’

Steevens rejecting the word ‘alone,’ as an interpolation would arrange the last and the following lines thus:

‘Were best to do it secretly.
_Bra._ What one
My lord?
_Glou._ Her husband, knave:--Wouldst thou betray me?’

Capell also had omitted ‘alone,’ but made an Alexandrine by continuing the line to ‘my lord.’

NOTE III.

I. 3. 16. Theobald substitutes ‘Stanley’ for ‘Derby’ throughout, observing, ‘This is a blunder of inadvertence, which has run thro’ the whole chain of impressions. It could not well be original in Shakespeare, who was most minutely acquainted with his history and the intermarriages of the nobility...Thomas Lord Stanley was not created Earl of Derby till after the accession of that prince (i.e. Henry VII.); and, accordingly, afterwards in the fourth and fifth Acts of this play, before the battel of Bosworth-field, he is every where call’d Lord Stanley. This sufficiently justifies the change I have made in his title.’

This statement is not quite correct. He is called ‘Derby’ (the word being, of course, variously spelt) throughout the first and second Acts. He is called ‘Lord Stanley’ for the first time in Act III. Scene 2. In Act III. Scene 4 he is called ‘Derby’ in the stage directions and ‘Stanley’ in the text. He is ‘Stanley’ in Act IV. Scene 1. In Act IV. Scenes 2 and 3, we find in the Folio ‘Stanley’ both in the stage directions and the text. In the Quarto it is ‘Derby,’ in the stage directions, the name not occurring in the text. In Act IV. Scene 4, he is called ‘Derby’ in the stage directions. In Act V. Scene 2, Richmond speaks of him as ‘my father Stanley,’ and in the next scene he is called ‘Derby’ in the stage directions, and ‘Stanley’ in the text.

The error must have been due to the author, who would not have written ‘my lord of Stanley,’ and therefore we have retained ‘Derby’ wherever both Quarto and Folio agree in reading it. ‘An editor,’ says Mr Grant White, ‘is not justifiable in substituting what his author should have written for what he did write.’

NOTE IV.

I. 3. 322. In Capell’s copy of the seventh Quarto an old MS. corrector has converted ‘we come’ into ‘welcome.’

NOTE V.

I. 4. 75. After this line which is assigned to ‘_Keep._’ like the foregoing lines, the Folios insert the stage direction, ‘Enter Brackenbury the Lieutenant,’ and then prefix ‘_Bra._’ to the next line, as if Brackenbury and the keeper had been two different persons, instead of being identical as they are in the Quartos. Pope restored the reading of the Quartos. Mr Grant White defends the stage directions of the Folios thus: ‘It was a violation of all propriety to make Sir Robert Brakenbury, Lieutenant of the Tower, go about with a bunch of ponderous keys at his girdle or in his hand. These keys were evidently carried by the keeper, a higher sort of gaoler, but a person of rank much inferior to that of Brakenbury, the commander of the Tower. The stage direction and the prefixes of the quarto are probably the result of the limited number of actors in Shakespeare’s company when the play was first produced, which caused the easily merged parts of the _Keeper_ and _Brakenbury_ to be assigned to one performer.’

But Clarence was no common prisoner, and there would be no degradation in Brakenbury’s acting in person as keeper to a prince of the blood, at a time when even menial offices were rendered by gentlemen of good birth not only to royal personages but also to others. We may observe--though this is of little weight--that the corrector has omitted to provide for the _exit_ of the Keeper.

On the whole we have decided to adhere to the Quartos, as they undoubtedly give what Shakespeare originally wrote, and the alteration found in the Folios is not of such obvious propriety that we should unhesitatingly attribute it to the hand of the author.

NOTE VI.

I. 4. 110. The speeches in this part of the scene, which are obviously prose, are printed in the Quartos and Folios as lines of verse of various lengths.

NOTE VII.

I. 4. 255–264. This passage, including the lines immediately preceding, stands thus in the first Quarto, which is followed by the rest, substantially:

‘_2_ What shall we doe?
_Cla._ Relent, and saue your soules.
_1_ Relent, tis cowardly and womanish.
_Cla._ Not to relent, is beastly, sauage, diuelish,
My friend, I spie some pitty in thy lookes:
Oh if thy eye be not a flatterer,
Come thou on my side, and intreat for me,
A begging Prince, what begger pitties not?’

It is thus amplified in the Folios:

‘_2_ What shall we do?
_Clar._ Relent, and saue your soules:
Which of you, if you were a Princes Sonne,
Being pent from Liberty, as I am now,
If two such murtherers as your selues came to you,
Would not intreat for life, as you would begge
Were you in my distresse.
_1_ Relent? no: ’Tis cowardly and womanish.
_Cla._ Not to relent, is beastly, sauage, diuellish:
My Friend, I spy some pitty in thy lookes:
O, if thine eye be not a Flatterer,
Come thou on my side, and intreate for mee,
A begging Prince, what begger pitties not.
_2_ Looke behind you, my Lord.’

Pope adopted the reading of the Quartos, rejecting the last line ‘a begging...not?’ He was followed by Hanmer and Capell. Theobald followed the Folios, reading _for life? Ah! you...distress._ Johnson, who gives in his text the arrangement which Warburton had borrowed from Theobald, says, in a note: ‘I cannot but suspect that the lines, which Mr Pope observed not to be in the old edition, are now misplaced, and should be inserted here, somewhat after this manner.

“_Clar._ A begging...pities not?
_Vil._ A begging prince!
_Clar._ Which of you if you were a prince’s son, &c.”

Upon this provocation the villain naturally strikes him.’

The arrangement which we have adopted was first suggested by Tyrwhitt and introduced into the text by Steevens, 1793. It involves a rather violent transposition, but we see no better remedy. As the lines omitted in the Quarto have all the appearance of being Shakespeare’s own, we cannot leave them out of the text. We think, however, that they are out of their right place in the Folio, and that the transposition suggested by Johnson does not yield a satisfactory sense.

Mr Grant White says: ‘Mr Knight, Mr Collier, Mr Verplanck, and Mr Hudson follow the Folio; the last only attaining a tolerable sense, by supposing _Clarence’s_ question, as it appears in the folio, to end at “would not intreat for life,” and the _Murderer_ to interrupt him in the beginning of a new sentence, thus:--

‘Which of you, &c........
Would not entreat for life? As you would beg,
Were you in my distress,--
_1 Murd._ Relent!’ &c.--

presuming, I suppose, the Duke to be about to say, ‘As you would beg, &c., _so I beg_,’ &c. I am unable to look so far into _Clarence’s_ intentions as to decide upon the merits of this reading.’

The punctuation proposed by Mr Hudson had suggested itself independently to Mr Spedding. The chief objection however to the reading of the Folio still remains, viz. the awkwardness of the murderer’s taking up Clarence’s word ‘Relent’ after so long an interval. If, as we suppose, Shakespeare wrote those additional lines in the margin of his original MS., nothing is more likely than that a copyist should have misplaced them. In IV. 3, 52, 53, two lines undoubtedly added by Shakespeare are thus misplaced in the Folio:

‘That reignes in gauled eyes of weeping soules:
That excellent grand Tyrant of the earth.’

Similarly in Act II. Scene 1, the line

‘Of you Lord Wooduill, and Lord Scales of you,’

which the corrector intended to follow 66, is placed in the Folio after 67. We have not introduced this line into the text, because Shakespeare would not have introduced it after line 66 as it stands in the Quarto, nor have altered that line as it is altered in the Folio.

See also IV. 4, 100–104, where, in correcting one mistake of transposition, another has been made.

See also Note (XIX).

Mr Collier in his second edition, following in other respects the Folio, inserts three words suggested by his old MS. corrector, thus:

‘Would not entreat for life? As you would beg
Were you in my distress, _so pity me_.’

Mr Knight’s arrangement (ed. 1839), in which he says he has followed ‘the Folio, instead of adopting the arbitrary regulations of the modern editors,’ is this:

‘_Clar._ Not...................devilish.
My friend................
..................pities not?
Which of you..................
............distress?’

Here perhaps the printer has mistaken Mr Knight’s marginal directions. If such an error can escape the notice of so careful an editor, how likely is it to occur in the Folio which could hardly be said to have an editor at all!

NOTE VIII.

II. 3. 12. Johnson supposed that a line had been lost between lines 12 and 13 after ‘government.’ Malone conjectured that one had been lost after ‘council under him,’ line 13.

NOTE IX.

II. 4. 1, 2. The Quarto here reads:

‘Last night I heare they lay at Northhampton.
At Stonistratford will they be to night.’

The Folio:

‘Last night I heard they lay at Stony Stratford,
And at Northampton they do rest to night.’

Pope:

‘I heard they lay the last night at Northampton,
At Stony-Stratford they do rest to-night.’

Capell:

‘Last night, I hear, they rested at Northampton;
At Stony-stratford they do lye to-night.’

The correction found in the Folio was probably made, as Malone says, simply for the sake of the metre. The Folio reading accidentally coincides with the statement of Hall’s Chronicle, but (what is of more consequence) it is inconsistent with the next line of the Archbishop’s speech.

NOTE X.

II. 4. 37. We have followed the Folios in reading ‘Enter a Messenger’ and in assigning the speeches that follow to him rather than to the Marquess Dorset as is the case in the Quartos. The change must have been deliberate, and as the Queen does not greet the person who brings the intelligence, and expresses no anxiety for his safety when she herself is going to sanctuary, it seems more proper that the messenger should be one of inferior rank than one so nearly connected with the Queen. His ignorance of the cause of the arrest of the nobles and the terms in which he speaks of them are in keeping with the character of a messenger. In Act IV. Scene 1, the Queen, apparently, meets Dorset for the first time since Richard’s designs were disclosed, and passionately urges his escape.

NOTE XI.

III. 1. 169, &c. The reading of the first Quarto is:

‘Well then no more but this:
Go gentle Catesby, and as it were a farre off,
Sound thou Lo: Hastings, how he stands affected
Vnto our purpose, if he be willing,
Encourage him &c.’

NOTE XII.

III. 2. 91–93. In the first Quarto the passage reads thus:

‘But come my Lo: shall we to the tower?
_Hast._ I go: but stay, heare you not the newes.
This day those men you talkt of, are beheaded.’

The reading of the Folios, which we have retained, is not satisfactory, and looks like an attempt of the editors to amend the defective metre of the Quartos. The scene opens at four in the morning, and yet Stanley is made to say, ‘the day is spent.’

NOTE XIII.

III. 4. 5. We retain here the reading in which both the earliest Quartos and the Folios agree. It doubtless came from the pen of the author, and is after all a pardonable inaccuracy, such as may easily escape from the pen of a rapid writer or the tongue of a ready talker.

NOTE XIV.

III. 4. 10–13. We keep the reading of the Quartos but have made a change in the arrangement of the lines. This is the text of the Quartos:

‘_Buc._ Who I my Lo? we know each others faces: But for our harts, he knowes no more of mine, Then I of yours: nor I no more of his, then you of mine:’

The Folio reads:

‘_Buck._ We know each others Faces: for our Hearts, He knowes no more of mine, then I of yours, Or I of his, my Lord, then you of mine.’

Pope follows the Folios, but reads ‘Nor’ for ‘Or’ in the last line.

NOTE XV.

III. 4. 78–80. The first Folio reads:

‘Off with his Head; now by Saint _Paul_ I sweare,
I will not dine, untill I see the same.
Lovell and Ratcliffe, looke that it be done.’

The first Quarto has:

‘Off with his head. Now by Saint Paule,
I will not dine to day I sweare,
Vntill I see the same, some see it done.’

Theobald altered Ratcliffe to Catesby, observing in his note, ‘The scene is here in the Tower: and Lord Hastings was cut off on that very day, when Rivers, Gray and Vaughan suffered at Pomfret. How then could Ratcliff at the same instant be both in Yorkshire and the Tower? In the very scene preceding this we find him conducting those gentlemen to the block. The players in their edition first made the blunder, as to Ratcliff attending Lord Hastings to death: for, in the old Quarto, we find it rightly;--Exeunt: Manet Catesby with Hastings.’ But in the next scene Theobald, while he makes Lovell and Catesby bring in the head of Hastings, allows Gloucester, just before their entrance, to say, ‘Catesby, o’erlook the walls.’ Hanmer corrected this inconsistency by reading, ‘Some one o’erlook the walls.’ We have followed the Folios, for the difficulties could not be removed entirely without applying more violence to the text than an editor is justified in using.

NOTE XVI.

III. 5. 10–21. In the first Quarto this passage stands as follows:

And both are ready in their offices
To grace my stratagems. _Enter Maior._
_Glo._ Here comes the Maior.
_Buc._ Let me alone to entertaine him. Lo: Maior,
_Glo._ Looke to the drawbridge there.
_Buc._ The reason we have sent for you.
_Glo._ Catesby ouerlooke the wals.
_Buck._ Harke, I heare a drumme.
_Glo._ Looke backe, defend thee, here are enemies.
_Buc._ God and our innocence defend vs. _Enter Catesby_
_Glo._ O, O, be quiet, it is Catesby. _with Hast. head._

In the last line Q3 has _G, O, be quiet,_ &c. Instead of lines 12–14, _But what......Lord mayor,_ Theobald read with the Quartos.

NOTE XVII.

IV. 1. 92–94. In the second Folio there is a curious mistake here. In the margin of the first Folio, from which the second was printed, some one had inserted the stage directions, ‘to Dorset,’ ‘to Anne,’ ‘to the Queene,’ which the printer mistook and gave as part of the text thus:

‘_Duc. Yorke._ Go to Richmond, to Dorset, to Anne, to the Queene, and good fortune guide thee, &c.’

The error is repeated in the third Folio and, strange to say, corrected in the fourth, where the stage directions are inserted in their proper places. It also inserts the word ‘thou,’ which had been omitted in the second and third Folios.

NOTE XVIII.

IV. 2. 47 sqq. In this passage we have followed substantially the reading of the Quartos in preference to that of the Folios.

The first Quarto reads:

‘_Darby._ My Lord, I heare the Marques Dorset
Is fled to Richmond, in those partes beyond the seas where he abides.
_King._ Catesby. _Cat._ My Lord.
_King._ Rumor it abroad
That Anne my wife is sicke and like to die, &c.’

In the seventh and eighth Quartos the second line of Darby’s speech is divided ‘...seas where he abides.’

The first Folio has:

‘_Stanley._ Know my louing Lord, the Marquesse _Dorset_ As I heare, is fled to _Richmond_, In the parts where he abides. _Rich._ Come hither _Catesby_, rumor it abroad, That _Anne_ my Wife is very grieuous sicke &c.’

Pope follows the Folios and Rowe, except that for ‘Know, my loving Lord,’ he substitutes ‘my lord,’ ending the next line at _fled_. Steevens retains the reading of the Folios, but in other respects adopts Pope’s arrangement, assigning it, more suo, to Sir Thomas Hanmer.

Mr Staunton follows Steevens as regards Stanley’s speech, and then reads with the Quartos. In the preceding line he reads with the Quartos: ‘How now what news with you?’

Mr Collier suspects that ‘What’s the news?’ in line 46, is an interpolation and that the true reading is,

‘How now, Lord Stanley? _Stan._ Know, my loving lord, The Marquess Dorset, as I hear, is fled &c.’

NOTE XIX.

IV. 4, 365, 366. The first Quarto alone preserves the proper order of the lines here. Its words are:

‘_King._ Harpe not one that string Madam that is past.
_Qu._ Harpe on it still shall I till hartstrings breake.’

The second Quarto omits the first line and gives the second to the King, thus:

‘_King._ Harpe on it still shal I, till hartstrings breake.
_King._ Now by my George &c.’

The third follows the second in omitting the first line, but it continues the second to the Queen. All the remaining Quartos read with the third.

The Folios give both lines, but in reverse order, thus:

..............‘graves,
Harpe on it still shall I, till heart-strings breake.
_Rich._ Harpe not on that string Madam, that is past.
Now by my George &c.’

NOTE XX.

IV. 4. 444. We have here followed the reading of the Quartos, in preference to that of the Folios, in which the passage stands as follows:

‘_Rich._ _Catesby,_ flye to the Duke.
_Cat._ I will, my Lord, with all convenient haste.
_Rich._ _Catesby_ come hither, poste to Salisbury:’

This seems to show that the text of the Quartos has been amended in the Folios by no very skilful hand. Rowe endeavoured to amend the passage by reading in the last line ‘Ratcliff, come hither,’ and in this has been followed by most succeeding editors.

NOTE XXI.

IV. 4. 512–517. The Quartos here read:

‘_Mes._ Your grace mistakes, the newes I bring is good My newes is that by sudden floud, and fall of water, The Duke of Buckinghams armie is disperst and scattered, And he himselfe fled, no man knowes whether. _King._ O I crie you mercie, I did mistake, Ratcliffe reward him, for the blow I gaue him.’

By substituting ‘’Tis’ for ‘My newes is’ in the second line, and ‘Buckingham’s’ for ‘The Duke of Buckinghams’ in the third, the reading of the Quartos might be retained.

NOTE XXII.

IV. 5. 6–20. We have followed the Quartos in the arrangement of the lines of this scene. The Folios insert after line 5:

‘So get thee gone: commend me to thy Lord.
Withall say, that the Oueene hath heartily consented
He should espouse _Elizabeth_ hir daughter.’

And in Derby’s last speech they read:

‘Well hye thee to thy Lord: I kisse his hand,
My Letter will resolue him of my minde.
Farewell.’

Pope follows the Folios, except that for ‘Withall say, that’ he reads ‘Say too.’ Capell adopts the arrangement of the Quartos, but reads, ‘Well, hie thee to thy lord’ instead of ‘Return unto thy lord.’

NOTE XXIII.

V. 3. 23–26. In the Quartos these lines are omitted in the present speech of Richmond, but inserted a few lines lower down, as will be seen from the following quotation from the first Quarto:

‘_Blunt._ Vpon my life my Lord, Ile vndertake it. _Rich._ Farewell good Blunt. Give me some inke, and paper, in my tent, Ile draw the forme, and modle of our battel, Limit each leader to his seuerall charge, And part in iust proportion our small strength, Come, let vs consult vpon to morrowes busines, In to our tent, the aire is rawe and cold.’

As the Quartos omit entirely lines 27, 28 and 43, we have followed the arrangement of the Folios.

NOTE XXIV.

V. 3. 145. In the first and second Quartos the Ghosts of the two young Princes enter and speak before the Ghost of Hastings. The Folios and the other Quartos make the Ghost of Hastings enter first. As a chronological order is observed in the appearance of the other Ghosts we have thought it best in this case to follow the latter authorities.

This discrepancy between the two earliest editions and the rest seems to have escaped the notice of Capell and of all other editors.

NOTE XXV.

V. 3. 179. Warburton says: The players, among their other innumerable absurdities, in the representation of this tragedy, make Richard say instead of ‘O coward conscience,’ ‘O _tyrant_ conscience!’

He refers to Colley Cibber’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s play: ‘The Tragical History of King Richard III. Altered from Shakespear. By Colley Cibber Esq.’

NOTE XXVI.

V. 3. 204–206. Johnson says: ‘These lines stand with so little propriety at the end of this speech that I cannot but suspect them to be misplaced. Where then shall they be inserted? Perhaps after these words, _Fool do not flatter_ (i.e. line 192).’

Rann, following Mason’s suggestion, inserted them after ‘I fear, I fear’ (line 214), and then, says Mason, Ratcliffe’s reply bidding the King not be afraid of shadows, would be natural. Mr Grant White would insert them either after line 178, ‘Soft I did but dream,’ or after 212, ‘I have dream’d a fearful dream.’ As the Folios omit lines 212, 213, Ratcliffe’s allusion to the shadows, of which he has heard nothing, _is_ rendered absurd. Yet the absurdity escaped the notice of all editors before Capell.

NOTE XXVII.

V. 5. We have retained the stage direction of the Quartos and Folios, ‘they fight. Richard is slain,’ in preference to ‘they fight, and exeunt fighting’ of Mr Dyce, because it is probable from Derby’s speech, ‘From the dead temples of _this_ bloody wretch,’ that Richard’s body is lying where he fell, in view of the audience.

CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

TRANSCRIBER’S ENDNOTE.

Original printed spelling and grammar are retained, with exceptions noted below. Small caps are changed to all capital letters. Italics _look like this_. Numerals originally printed as subscripts are shown inline e.g. “F1”. The changes recommended in the ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA section have been applied. Verse indents were sized using a monospace font. Proportional fonts will render the indents less accurately.

Linenotes in the original printed book resided on the page with the line referenced. In this edition, linenotes have been converted to footnotes and have been moved to the ends of the respective plays. Linenumbers, footnote anchors, and the footnote labels are shown with play number (in this book), Act number, and Scene number prefixed, coded a–f, a–e, and a–w, respectively. Thus a hypothetical line/footnote coded "[feb065]" designates line 65 in the sixth play (King Richard III), Act 5, Scene 2. A linenumber that is not also a footnote anchor looks like "·feb065·".

Pg. 276, l. cca028: _K. Ken._ is changed to _K. Hen._.

Pg. 318: two linenotes were missing line references. The first, “Sir John Somerville.]” seems to refer to line cea007; the second, “King E., Gloucester,]” seems to refer line cea016; anchors for these have been added.

In the fourth and fifth plays—“The First Part of the Contention &c.”, and “The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the Good Henry the Sixt”—some words or phrases were printed below or above the appropriate text line, preceded by left parenthesis “(”. These have been moved to the correct line of text. Examples include ll. dac113, dar067, eaa116, eal057, &c.

Pg. 350, Scene III l. 1: the footnote “_let vs_]” was originally anchored to Scene II l. 81, but Scene II ends at line 80. The anchor has been changed to Scene III l. 1, i.e. line dac001, in the notation used in this edition.

Pg. 363, ll. daf024-daf033: these lines were printed as prose, but with a strange line break after the phrase “true heire to Lyonell Duke”. This line break has been removed in this edition.

Page 410, l. eaa096: the sentence ending punctuation was not printed, and none has been supplied herein. On pg. 410, l. eaa129, and in the linenote associated with it, “T‛was” was printed with a U+201B (single high reversed-9 quotation mark). This is retained herein, but may not render properly in some browsers or e-readers. Pg. 411, l. eaa133: the sentence “Then am I lawfull king” was printed without punctuation, and none has been supplied. Other instances of missing sentence end punctuation include l. eae060.

Page 424, linenote to l. ead097: it is not clear whether the hyphen in “_Night-Owles_ Q3.” should be retained.

Page 428, l. eae076: “_Prince,_” changed to “_Prince._”.

Page 458, l. eas051: the two full stops printed at the end of the line are retained.

Page 541, l. fbb145: The two speakers for this line were indicated by a large right curly bracket “}” in the printed book, but like “_Q. Eliz. & Duch._” in this edition.

Page 622, linenote to l. fec130: “Keigthley” changed to “Keightley”.