Chapter XCVIII: Act IV

SC. 1. "Yes, Poole.--Poole?--Poole, sir Poole, lord _Poole_."

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"Jove sometime went disguis'd, and why not I?"

This line, so essential to the sense, is not in the folio; to obtain it recourse has been had to The Contention.

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"As hating thee, are rising up in arms."

For 'are,' Rowe's correction, the folio has _and_.

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"Advance our half-fac'd sun, striving to shine."

For 'our' we should read _a_ or _an_; for the Captain does not seem to have had any connexion with the House of York. See on Hen. V. ii. Chor.

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"Exempt is true nobility from fear."

The folio reads 'True nobility is exempt.' We might also, with a loss of force however, read '_For_ true,' etc. Still the choice is difficult.

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SC. 2. "I'll make myself a knight _here_ presently."

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SC. 4. "Trust nobody for fear you _be_ betray'd."

The 2nd folio supplied _be_.

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SC. 7. "And the help of hatchet."

For 'help' Farmer read _pap_. "Pap of hatchet" was a common phrase. In the preceding line there is in the folio a misprint of _candle_ for 'caudle.'

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SC. 8. "Or let a rabble lead you to your deaths."

Both Collier's and Singer's folio properly read _rebel_.

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SC. 9. "Of Gallowglasses and stout Kernes _he_."

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"I pray thee, Buckingham, _to_ go and meet him."

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SC. 10. "Contenteth me and _is_ worth a monarchy."

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"_And_ as for words whose greatness answers words."

ACT V.

SC. 1. "Alexander Iden, that's my name, _my liege_."

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"They may astonish these fell lurking curs."

We should perhaps read _lurching_.

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"Who being suffered with the bear's fell paw."

For 'being' it might be better to read _having_.

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"And so to arms, _my_ victorious father!"

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SC. 2. "To cease! Wast thou ordained _O_ dear father."

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SC. 3. "Of Salisbury, who can report of him?"

I have followed Collier's folio in reading _Old_ for 'Of.'

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"Aged contusions and all brush of time,
And like a gallant in the brow of youth."

For 'brush' and 'brow' Collier's folio reads _bruise_ and _bloom_.

KING HENRY VI.--PART III.

ACT I.

SC. 1. "Prove it _so_, Henry, and thou shalt be King."

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"Before I would have granted to that act."

This use of 'granted' is unusual; we might read _assented_.

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"Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle
Tire on the flesh of me."

I do not understand 'cost' here. Singer reads _coast_.

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SC. 2. "Thou, Richard, shalt _unto_ the duke of Norfolk,
And tell him privily of our intent.
You, Edward, shall unto my lord _of_ Cobham."

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"Courteous, witty, liberal, full of spirit."

The folio reads 'Witty, courteous.'

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"The Queen with all the Northern earls and lords
Intend here to besiege you in your castle."

We might incline to read 'Intend_s_'; but see Jul. Cæs. iv. 3, and Hen. VIII. i. 3.

ACT II.

SC. 2. "And this soft courage makes your followers faint."

For 'courage' M. Mason gave from the original play _carriage_, which perhaps is right.

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SC. 5. "So minutes, hoürs, days, _weeks_, months, and years."

The printer evidently omitted _weeks_.

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"And so obsequious will thy father be
Men, for the loss of thee."

For 'Men,' which makes no sense, I read _Son_; Rowe has _Lad_, Collier _Man_, Dyce _E'en_. It is possible also that a prep., as '_fore_ or _to_, may have been effaced before 'Men.'

ACT III.

SC. 1. "Let me embrace the sour adversaries."

I read, with Pope, _adversities_.

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"We charge you in God's name and _in_ the King's."

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SC. 2. "Saying he'll lade it dry, to have his way."

We should probably read _lay_ or _ladle_.

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SC. 3. "Queen Margaret, prince Edward, and _lord_ Oxford."

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"Peace, impudent and shameless Warwick, _peace_!"

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"Thou and _lord_ Oxford, with five thousand men."

ACT IV.

SC. 1. "_Ay_, but the safer when 'tis back'd by France."

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"Go tell false Edward thy supposed King."

The folio has _the_ for 'thy.'

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SC. 3. "While he himself keeps in the cold field _here_."

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"I'll follow you, and tell _him then_ what answer."

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SC. 6. "And all his lands and goods confiscate_d_."

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SC. 7. "_I' faith_, a wise, stout captain, and soon persuaded."

ACT V.

SC. 5. "Take that, the likeness of this railer here."

For 'the' I incline to read '_thou_.'

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SC. 6. "Men for their sons, wives for their husbands,
_And_ orphans for their parents' timeless death."

In the first line the 2nd folio adds _fate_, as it does _And_ in the second line. For _fate_ we might perhaps better read, as I have done, _mourning_.

KING RICHARD III.