Chapter X: Act V

SC. 1. "And much different from the man he was _before_."

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"In company I often glanced _at_ it."

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"But _only_ moody and dull melancholy."

See Introd. p. 55. In my Edit. _only_ is at the end.

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"And at her heels a huge infectious troop."

We should probably read _his_ for 'her,' as kinsman is the antecedent.

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"Hath scar'd thy husband from the use of _his_ wits."

As 'his' was probably written _'s_, it escaped the printer's eye.

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"The place of death and sorry execution."

I would read _sore_ or _sour_ for 'sorry'; Collier's folio proposes _solemn_. The 1st folio has _depth_ for 'death.' The correction was made in the 3rd.

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"To scorch your face and to disfigure you."

Mr. Dyce properly reads _scotch_; for, as he observes, the very same misprint occurs in Macb. iii. 2, and Knt. of Burning Pestle, iii. 4.

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"On the way we met * * * _as we were going along_"(?)

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"These left me and my man, both bound together."

For 'These' we should perhaps read _They_.

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"Besides her urging of her wreck at sea...."

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"And thereupon these Errors are arose."

Editors ought to be ashamed of themselves for not seeing that 'arose' is the same as 'arisen.' See Introd. p. 70.

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"Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail,
Of you, my sons; and till the present hour
My heavy burthen are delivered.
The Duke, my husband, and my children both,
And you, the calendars of their nativity,
Go to a gossip's feast, and go with me,
After so long grief such nativity!"

I read this passage thus:

"Thirty-three years have I _been_ gone in travail
Of you, my sons, _until_ the present hour.
My heavy burthen _here_ delivered,
The Duke, my husband, and my children both,
And you, the calendars of their nativity,
_Come_ to a gossip's feast, and go with me.--
After so long grief such _felicity_!"

All the corrections here made are my own; and yet in all but one I had been anticipated! in _been_ by 2nd folio; in _until_ by Boaden; in _here_ by Grant White; in _felicity_ by Hanmer. In my Edition of these plays I have printed "Go ... _come_ with me." The difference is unimportant. In the first line Theobald, followed by succeeding editors, read _twenty-five_; but such alterations are not to be allowed.

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"Master, shall I fetch your stuff from ship-board _now_?"

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.