Chapter XVIII: Act V: Actus Quartus Ff Q2 (2)

257: _invisible_] _invincible_ Theobald.

259: _sense; so sensible_] Punctuated thus by Pope. _sence so sensible_, Q1 _sence so sensible:_ Ff Q2.

261: _bullets_] om. Capell.

263: _pure_] _pure pure_ Capell.

264: _Farewell_] _Adieu_ Capell.

265: Exeunt...] Exeunt. F1, after line 264. om. Q1.

269: _wit, kingly-poor_] _wit, kingly poor_ Qq Ff. _wit, kill’d by pure_ Collier MS. _wit, stung by poor_ Singer. _wit, poor-liking_ Staunton conj.

273: _O_] F2 F3 F4. om. Qq F1 _I_ (for _Ay_) Edd. conj.

275: _suit_] _sooth or truth_ Grey conj.

289: _digest_] Qq F1 F4. _disgest_ F2 F3.

295: _their_] _the_ Warburton.

296, 297: _Dismask’d...blown_] _Or angel-veiling clouds: are roses blown, Dismaskt,...shewn_ Theobald (Warburton conj.). _Or angels veil’d in clouds;...shewn_ Warburton.

297: _Are...blown_] _Are angels, (val’d the clouds)...blown_ Becket conj. _Are angels veil’d in clouds of roses blown_ Peck conj.

_vailing_] Ff Q2. _varling_ Q1.

307: _tent_] _tents_ Capell conj.

309: _roes run o’er_] _roes runs ore_ Q1. _roes runnes ore_ F1 Q2 F2. _roes runs ore the_ F3. _roes run o’er the_ F4. _roes run over_ Steevens.

SCENE VII. Pope. ACT V. Theobald.

Re-enter...] Enter the King and the rest. Qq Ff.

312: _thither_], Q1. om. Ff Q2. See note (XXV).

315: _pecks_] Q1. _pickes_ Ff Q2.

_pigeons_] _pigeon_ Rowe.

316: _God_] Q1. _Jove_ Ff Q2.

323: _A’_] _A_ Q1. _He_ Ff Q2.

324: _his hand away_] Q1. _away his hand_ Ff Q2.

328: _meanly_] _manly_ Rowe (ed. 2). _mainly_ Pope.

331: _flower that_] _fleerer_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).

332: _whale’s_] _whales_ Qq F1. _whale his_ F2 F3 F4.

333: _not_] om. F4.

334: _due_] Q1. _dutie_ F1. _duty_ Q2. F2 F3 F4.

337: _it_] _he_ Collier MS.

337–342: _See...leave_] Put in the margin by Pope.

338: _madman_] _man_ Theobald.

341: _Construe...speeches_] _Consture...spaches_ Q1.

343: SCENE VIII. Pope.

_came_] _come_ Pope.

346: _delights_] _delight_ Rowe.

348: _must break_] _makes break_ Hanmer. _made break_ Warburton conj.

350: _men’s_] F3 F4. _mens_ Q1. _men_ F1 Q2 F2.

352: _unsullied_] F2 F3 F4. _unsallied_ Qq F1.

356: _oaths_] _oath_ Q2.

365: _the days_] _these days_ Collier MS.

368: _Russian_] Q1 F2 F3 F4. _Russia_ F1 Q2.

373: _Fair_] F2 F3 F4. om. Qq F1.

374: _wit makes_] F2 F3 F4. _wits makes_ Qq F1. _wits make_ Anon. conj.

379: _for_] _but_ Capell conj.

385: _was it_] _what it_ F1.

390: Dum.] Duman. Q1. Du. F1 Q2. Duk. F2 F3 F4.

392: _swound_] F2 F3 F4. _sound_ Qq F1. _swoon_ Pope.

396: _I: lady,_] _I, lady_ Qq F1 F2. _I, lady,_ F3 F4. _I, lady:_ Capell.

404: _vizard_] Qq F1 F2. _vizards_ F3 F4.

405: _rhyme_] _rime_ Qq Ff. _time_ Rowe.

407: _affectation_] Rowe. _affection_ Qq Ff.

415: _sans_] _sance_ Q1 (ital.).

421: _it_] om. Q2.

433: _not you_] Q1. _you not_ Ff Q2.

439: _mine_] _my_ F4.

446: _thereto_] Qq F1. _there_ F2 F3 F4.

454: _the_] _to th’_ F3 F4.

463: _slight zany_] _sleight saine_ Q1.

465: _smiles his_] _smiles, his_ Q1. _smites his_ Jackson conj.

_years_] _jeers_ Theobald. _fleers_ Hanmer. _tears_ Jackson conj.

472: _Much...and_] Boyet. _Much_...Biron. _And_ Johnson conj.

_it is_] F2 F3 F4. _tis_ Qq F1.

[To Boyet.] Rowe.

474: _not you_] _you not_ Q2.

_squier_] Qq F1 F2 F3. _square_ F4. _squire_ Capell.

478: _allow’d_] F3 F4. _aloude_ Q1. _alowd_ F1 Q2. _allowd_ F2.

481: _merrily_] _merely_ Q1.

482: _Hath this brave manage_] Theobald. _hath this brave nuage_ Q1. _hath this brave manager_ Ff Q2. _Brave manager, hath this_ Pope.

484: _part’st_] _prat’st_ F3 F4. _partest_ Pope.

487: _vara_] _very_ Rowe (ed. 2).

488: _pursents_] _presents_ Rowe (ed. 2).

490: _beg_] _bag_ Becket conj.

491: _hope, sir_] _hope_ F3 F4.

501: _they_] _thy_ Q1.

_parfect_] Q1. _perfect_ Ff Q2. _persent_ Collier. _pursent_
Grant White (S. Walker conj.).

_in_] _e’en_ Malone.

504: _Pompion_] Rowe (ed. 2). _Pompey_ Qq Ff.

510, 511: Printed as verse in Q1, as prose in Ff Q2.

511: _king’s_] _king_ F3 F4.

514: _least_] Ff Q2. _best_ Q1.

515, 516: _contents Dies...presents_] Qq Ff. _content Dies...presents_ Rowe (ed. 1). _content Dies in the zeal of that it doth present_ Hanmer. _contents Die in the zeal of him which them presents_ Johnson conj. _contents Die in the zeal of them which it presents_ Steevens. _discontent Dies in the zeal of them which it present_ Staunton. _content Lies in the zeal of those which it present_ Mason conj. _contents Die in the zeal of them which it presents_ Malone. _contents Lie in the fail of that which it presents_ Singer. _contents Dyes with the zeal of that which it presents_ Keightley conj.

517: _Their_] _There_ Capell. _The_ Knight.

521: [Converses...] Capell.

524: _He_] Ff Q2. _A_ Q1.

_God’s_] Ff Q2. _God his_ Q1.

525: _That is_] Q1. _That’s_ Ff Q2.

528: _de la guerra_] Theobald. _delaguar_ Qq Ff. _della guerra_ Hanmer. See note (XXVI).

529: _couplement_] _complement_ Q2.

534, 535: Printed as prose in Qq Ff, as verse in Rowe (ed. 2).

540: _Abate_] Qq F1. _A bare_ F2 F3 F4. _A fair_ Heath conj. _Abate a_ Malone. _A bait_ Jackson conj.

_novum_] _novem_ Hanmer.

541: _pick_] Q1. _prick_ Ff Q2.

_in his_] Q1. _in’s_ Ff Q2.

[Seats brought forth.] Capell.

542: Flourish. Enter, arm’d and accouter’d, his Scutcheon born before him, Costard for Pompey. Capell.

543: [Costard prostrates himself. Staunton conj.

Boyet] F2 F3 F4. Bero. Q1. Ber. F1 Q2.

551: [Does his obeisance to the Princess. Capell.

553: Prin.] F2 F3 F4. Lady. Q1. La. F1 Q2.

562: _this,_] _his_ Q1. _this_ Ff Q2.

563: _Alexander_] _Alisander_ Capell.

573: _afeard_] Q1. _afraid_ Ff Q2.

574: [Nath. retires.] Capell.

576: _faith_] Q1. _insooth_ Ff Q2.

578. _’tis,_] Johnson. _’tis_ Q1 Ff. _it’s_ Q2.

579: [Exit Curat. Q1. Exit Cu. F1 Q2. Exit Clo. F2 F3 F4 (after line 580).

580: Prin.] Quee. Q1. Qu. F1 Q2. Clo. F2 F3 F4.

581: _Hercules is_] _Hercules’_ S. Walker conj.

582: _canis_] Rowe. _canus_ Qq Ff.

587: [Moth retires.] Exit Boy. Qq Ff. [Moth does his obeisance and retires. Capell.

593: _proved_] F2. _proud_ Q1. _prou’d_ F1 Q2.

600: _out of_] Q1 Ff. _of_ Q2.

607: _falchion_] _fauchion_ Q1. _faulchion_ Ff Q2.

617: _as he is an ass,_] Q2 F3 F4. _as he is, an ass,_ Q1 F1 F2.

623: _hath he_] _he hath_ Pope.

626: _by_] _to_ Hanmer.

628: _Troyan_] Qq Ff. _Trojan_ Rowe, and line 664.

631: _Hector’s_] Q1. _Hector_ Ff Q2.

633: _in_] _with_ F3 F4.

638: _A gilt nutmeg_] Ff Q2. _A gift nutmeg_ Q1 _Gift! a nutmeg_ Capell.

642: _Peace!_] om. Ff Q2.

645: _fight; yea_] Qq Ff. _fight ye,_ Rowe (ed. 2).

647: _mint_] _pink_ Capell conj.

653, 654: _when he breathed...man_] Q1 om. Ff Q2.

655: [Biron steps to Costard and whispers him. Capell.

661: _The party is gone_] Printed in italics as a stage direction by Qq Ff.

677: _on! stir_] Rowe. _or stir_ Qq Ff.

683: _bepray_] Q1. _pray_ Ff Q2.

687: [stripping. Capell.

688: [coming up to Arm. and whispering him. Capell.

699: Boyet.] Moth. (to the lords aside). Capell.

701: _a’ wears_] _a wears_ Q1. _he wears_ Ff Q2.

702: Marcade.] Qq Ff. Macard. Rowe. Mercade. Capell.

704: _Marcade_] _good Mercade_ Capell, reading 703, 704 as a verse.

705: _interrupt’st_] _interrupptest_ Q1. _interruptest_ Ff Q2.

705–707: Printed as prose in Qq Ff.

706, 707: _bring Is heavy in_] _bring; ’Tis heavy on_ Capell.

712: _day_] _days_ Warburton’s note.

_wrong_] _right_ Warburton.

718: _entreat,_] _entreat:_ Q1. _entreats:_ Ff. _intreats:_ Q2.

725: _not_] _but_ Collier MS.

_a nimble_] Theobald, _a humble_ Qq F1. _an humble_ F2 F3
F4.

726: _too short_] Q1. _so short_ Ff Q2.

728: _parts....forms_] _parts....form_ Rowe (ed. 1). _past...forms_ Theobald. _haste....forms_ Singer. _dart....forms_ Staunton conj. _parting time expressly forms_ Collier MS.

731: _process_] _process of time_ F3 F4.

734: _it would_] _would it_ Johnson conj.

738: _wholesome-profitable_] _holdsome profitable_ Q1.

740: _are double_] Qq Ff. _are deaf_ Capell. _are dull_ Collier MS. _hear dully_ Staunton conj.

740–742: Prin. _I...double._ Biron. _Honest...And by..._] Prin. _I...grief._ King. _And by..._ Johnson conj.

741: _ear_] _care_ Q1. _ears_ F1. _eares_ Q2 F2. _cares_ F3 F4.

748: _strains_] _strangeness_ Collier MS.

751: _strange_] Capell. _straying_ Qq Ff. _stray_ Coleridge conj.

756: _Have_] _’T hath_ Capell.

_misbecomed_] _misbecombd_ Q1. _misbecom’d_ Ff. _misbecomm’d_
Q2.

762: _make_] _make them_ Pope.

763: _a sin_] _so base_ Collier MS.

766: _the_] om. Q1.

770: _this in our_] Hanmer. _this our_ Q1. _these are our_ Ff Q2. _these are your_ Tyrwhitt conj. _this (save our...)_ Warburton.

771: _been_] _seen_ Tyrwhitt conj.

786: _the_] Q1. _their_ Ff Q2.

793: _me by_] _by_ F3 F4.

795: _instant_] Ff Q2. _instance_ Q1.

800: _intitled_] F1 F2 F3 Q2. _intiled_ Q1. _intituled_ F4.

802: _flatter_] _fetter_ Hanmer (Warburton).

804: _Hence ever_] Ff. _Hence herrite_ Q1.

805–810: Included in brackets by Theobald at the suggestion of Thirlby and Warburton, and omitted by Hanmer. See note (XVIII).

806: _rack’d_] _rank_ Rowe. _reck’d_ Becket conj.

807: _faults_] _fault_ F2 F3 F4.

812: _A wife?..._] Dyce. Kath. _A wife? a beard, faire health, and..._ Qq Ff. Kath. _A wife, a beard (fair youth) and..._ Theobald. Kath. _No wife: a beard, fair health, and..._ Hanmer.

828: _thy_] Q1. _my_ Ff. Q2.

829: _have_] _had_ Collier MS.

833: _estates_] _estetes_ Q1.

_execute_] _exercise_ Collier MS.

835: _fruitful_] _fructful_ Q1.

852: _dear_] _dere_ Johnson conj. _drear_ Jackson conj. _dire_ Collier MS.

853: _then_] _them_ Collier MS.

860: [To the King] Breaking Converse with the King and curtsying. Capell.

868: _not_] om. Q2.

872: _years_] _yeare_ Q1. _year_ Capell.

877: Re-enter...] Enter all. Qq Ff.

882, 883: Theobald. In Ff Qq the order is 883, 882.

883: _cuckoo-buds_] _cowslip-buds_ Farmer conj. _crocus-buds_ Whalley conj.

884: _with delight_] _much-bedight_ Warburton.

903: _foul_] _full_ Q1.

905, 906: _Tu-whit; Tu-who_] Qq Ff. _Tu-who; Tu-whit, tu-who_ Capell.

917: Arm.] Brag. Ff Q2. om. Q1.

917, 918: _The words...Apollo_] In Q1 printed in larger type.

918: _You that way,—we this way._] om. Q1. ~~~~~

NOTES.

NOTE I.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. Biron is spell ‘Berowne,’ Longaville ‘Longavill,’ in Q1 F1 Q2; Mercade ‘Marcade,’ in Qq Ff. Armado is written sometimes ‘Armatho.’ Mr Grant White suggests that Moth should be written ‘Mote,’ as it was clearly so pronounced. See note (VI). ‘Boyet’ is made to rhyme with ‘debt’ in V. 2. 334; ‘Longaville’ with ‘ill’ in IV. 3. 119, and with ‘mile’ in V. 2. 53; ‘Rosaline’ with ‘thine,’ IV. 3. 217. Costard, in the old stage directions, is called ‘Clown.’

NOTE II.

Mason says, ‘I believe the title of this play should be ‘Love’s Labours Lost,’ but it is clear, from the form in which it is written in the running title of Qq F1 F2 ‘Loves Labour’s Lost,’ that the full name was intended to be ‘Love’s Labour is Lost.’ On the title pages however of Q1 and Q2 it is written respectively ‘Loues labors lost,’ and ‘Loues Labours lost.’ It is called by Meres (1598) ‘Love Labour Lost,’ and by Tofte ‘Love’s Labour Lost,’ which is in favour of the ordinary spelling.

NOTE III.

As the scene through the play is in the King of Navarre’s park, and as it is perfectly obvious when the action is near the palace and when near the tents of the French princess, we have not thought it necessary to specify the several changes.

NOTE IV.

I. 1. 23. This is an instance of the lax grammar of the time which permitted the use of a singular pronoun referring to a plural substantive, and vice versa, as in _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, Act I. Sc. 1;

‘You cannot read it there; there, through my tears, Like wrinkled pebbles in a glassy stream, You may behold _’em_.’

NOTE V.

I. 1. 110. Singer says that in a copy of F1 which he used, the reading is ‘sit.’

NOTE VI.

I. 2. 86. There is probably an allusion in the words, ‘for she had a green wit,’ to the ‘green withes,’ with which Samson was bound. In Shakespeare’s time, ‘mote’ was frequently written ‘moth,’ as in IV. 3. 157 of this play, and in _Much Ado about Nothing_ (II. 3) the same variety of spelling gives rise to an obscure pun, ‘Note notes, forsooth, and nothing.’ Compare, also, _As You Like It_, III. 3. 5.

NOTE VII.

II. 1. 88. We have retained in this passage the reading of the first Quarto, ‘unpeeled,’ in preference to the ‘unpeopled’ of the second Quarto and the Folios, which is evidently only a conjectural emendation, and does not furnish a better sense than many other words which might be proposed. In the same way, in Act III. Sc. 1, line 61, we have followed the first Quarto in reading ‘volable’ instead of ‘voluble,’ as it has direct reference to Moth’s last words ‘thump, then, and I flee,’ and is in better keeping with the Euphuistic language of the speaker.

NOTE VIII.

In II. 1. 114 sqq. the speakers are ‘Berowne’ and ‘Kather.’ in Q1. This is followed by Capell, who justifies it as follows: ‘When the King and his lords enter, the ladies mask, and continue mask’d ’till they go: Biron, while the letter is reading, seeks his mistress; accosts Catharine instead of her, finds his error, and leaves her: the King’s exit gives him an opportunity to make another attempt, and he then lights on the right but without knowing her; makes a third by enquiry, and is baffled in that too, for he describes Maria, and is told she is Catharine.’ In this and other scenes the characters are so confused in the old copies that they can be determined only by the context, in this play a very unsafe guide.

NOTE IX.

II. 1. 212. In this line, as well as in III. 1. 140, 142, &c. and IV. 3. 279, the ‘O’ is superfluous and appears to have crept into the text from the last letter of the stage direction ‘Bero.’ In the first instance in which this occurs the first Quarto stands alone, and the error is corrected in the second Quarto and the Folios, and we have therefore ventured to make the same correction in the other cases.

NOTE X.

III. 1. 186. As ‘wightly,’ in the sense of ‘nimble,’ has no etymological connection with ‘white,’ we have thought it best to retain the spelling which is least likely to mislead.

NOTE XI.

IV. 2. 27. _Which we of taste and feeling are, for those..._ In Qq Ff this passage stands as follows: ‘which we taste and feeling, are for those parts that do fructify in us more than he,’ except that Q1 F4 put a comma after ‘taste’ and Q2 omits ‘do.’ Theobald, on Warburton’s suggestion, reads, ‘parts (which we taste and feel _ingradare_) that do, &c.’ Hanmer is the first to print it as verse, reading,

‘And such barren plants are set before us, that we thankful should be, For those parts which we taste and feel do fructify in us more than he.’

Johnson proposes, ‘When we taste and feeling are for those parts, &c.’ Tyrwhitt conjectured, ‘Which we of taste and feeling are, &c.’ and is followed by Collier and several modern editors. This reading appears to make the best sense with the least alteration. In Collier MS. we find ‘which we having taste and feeling &c.’

NOTE XII.

IV. 2. 63, 70, 74. In Qq Ff these three speeches are incorrectly assigned to Nath., Hol. and Nath. respectively, whereas the third evidently belongs to Holofernes. Similarly the speeches beginning with lines 79, 83, 89, 99 are assigned to Nath. instead of Hol., and vice versâ line 99 which properly belongs to Nath. is given to Hol. Again 115–122 and 125–129 are given to Nath. in consequence of which ‘Sir Nathaniel,’ in line 129, was written ‘Sir Holofernes,’ a title to which the pedant had no claim. The mistake probably arose from the stage direction ‘Ped.’ being confounded with ‘Per.,’ that is, Person or Parson. Besides, in line 114, the ‘Ped.’ of F1 is changed in the later folios to ‘Pedro.’

NOTE XIII.

IV. 3. 142. In Q1 this line stands at the top of the page. The catch-word on the preceding page is ‘Fayth,’ shewing that the word omitted, whatever it be, was not the first in the line.

NOTE XIV.

IV. 3. 178. By the kind permission of the Duke of Devonshire, we have collated the copy of the first Quarto, which is in his Grace’s library, with that which is in the Capell collection. Besides the important difference mentioned in the foot-note, the following are found:

E. 3. (r) line 5, paper (Capell) p a d e r (Devonshire). E. 3. (v) line 12, corporall (Capell) croporall (Devonshire). I. 3. (r) line 22, then w i (Capell) then w (Devonshire).

NOTE XV.

IV. 3. 244. Theobald’s note is: _‘O_ word _divine!_ This is the reading of all the editions that I have seen; but both Dr Thirlby and Mr Warburton concurred in reading (as I had likewise conjectured) _O_ wood _divine!_’

‘Wood,’ however, is the reading of Rowe’s first edition. It was perhaps only a happy misprint, as it is altered to ‘word’ in the second.

NOTE XVI.

IV. 3. 251. As ‘suiter’ was pronounced and sometimes written ‘shooter’ (IV. 1. 101), so probably ‘suit’ was sometimes written ‘shoote,’ a word easily corrupted into ‘schoole.’

NOTE XVII.

IV. 3. 285. Although it is not necessary to omit a syllable on account of the metre, as Mr Sidney Walker seems to have thought, we have adopted one of his conjectures for the reason mentioned in note (IX). A similar error, which has hitherto escaped notice, seems to occur in IV. 2. 83, where the word ‘Of,’ which in the original MS. was part of the stage direction ‘Holof.’, has crept into the text. If this hypothesis be true, it follows that the frequently recurring error of ‘_Nath._’ for ‘_Hol._’ is not due to the author himself, but to an unskilful corrector.

NOTE XVIII.

IV. 3. 295. Mr Dyce omits lines 295–300, _For when would you...true Promethean fire_; and lines 308–315, _For where is...forsworn our books_, which are repeated in substance, and, to some extent verbatim, in the latter part of the speech.

There can be no doubt that two drafts of the speech have been blended together, and that the author meant to cancel a portion of it; but as there also can be no doubt that the whole came from his pen, we do not venture to correct the printer’s error. We would ‘lose no drop of the immortal man.’ The error is indeed a very instructive one. It goes to prove that the first Quarto was printed from the author’s original MS.; that the author had not made a ‘foul copy’ of his work; and that he had not an opportunity of revising the proof sheets as they passed through the press.

For the same reason we have retained V. 2. 805–810.

NOTE XIX.

IV. 3. 341. We have here retained ‘make,’ because the inaccuracy is so natural, that it probably came from the pen of the author. It escaped correction in all the Quartos and Folios, as well as in Rowe’s and Pope’s editions.

NOTE XX.

V. 1. 24, 25. The reading which we have given in the text, and which had occurred to us before we discovered that Capell had hit upon nearly the same conjecture, comes nearer to the words and punctuation of the Quartos and Folios than Theobald’s, which, since his time, has been the received reading. Sir Nathaniel is not represented elsewhere as an ignoramus who would be likely to say ‘bone’ for ‘bene.’ Holofernes patronizingly calls him ‘Priscian,’ but, pedagogue-like, will not admit his perfect accuracy. ‘A little scratched’ is a phrase familiar to the schoolmaster, from his daily task of correcting his pupils’ ‘latines.’

Capell’s conjecture, given in his _Notes_, Vol. I. p. 44 of the Various Readings, is ‘Nath. _Laus Deo bone intelligo._ Hol. _Bone! bon, fort bon; Priscian._’ In his printed text he follows Theobald.

Some corruption is still left in line 22: _insanie: ne intelligis_. Perhaps we should read _insano fare: intelligis..._

NOTE XXI.

V. 1. 110. There is some corruption in this passage, which cannot with certainty be removed. In the subsequent scene five ‘worthies’ only are presented, viz. Hector by Armado, Pompey by Costard, Alexander by Nathaniel, Hercules by the Page, and Judas Maccabæus by Holofernes.

NOTE XXII.

V. 2. 43. Johnson says ‘The former editions read _Were pencils_,’ and attributes the restoration of _Ware_ to Hanmer. Mr Halliwell repeats the assertion. In reality, all the editions read _Ware_.

NOTE XXIII.

V. 2. 232. Mr Sidney Walker, in his _Criticisms_, Vol. II. p. 153, remarks that, ‘_and if_ (he means _an if_) is always in the old plays printed ‘_and if_.’ Here is an instance to the contrary. See also Mr Lettsom’s note, _l. c._ _And_, not _an_, seems to be printed in nine cases out of ten, whatever the following word be.

NOTE XXIV.

V. 2. 247. ‘Dutchman’ here, as usual, means ‘German.’ The word alluded to is ‘Viel,’ a word which would be likely to be known from the frequent use which the sailors from Hamburg or Bremen would have cause to make of the phrase ‘zu viel’ in their bargains with the London shopkeepers.

NOTE XXV.

V. 2. 312. Mr Collier says that in some copies of Q1 ‘thither’ is omitted.

NOTE XXVI.

V. 2. 528. The modern editors who have followed Hanmer’s reading ‘della,’ in preference to Theobald’s ‘de la,’ have forgotten that Armado is a Spaniard, not an Italian.

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MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[1].

THESEUS, Duke of Athens. EGEUS, father to Hermia. LYSANDER, in love with Hermia. DEMETRIUS, ” ” ” ” PHILOSTRATE, master of the revels to Theseus QUINCE, a carpenter. SNUG, a joiner. BOTTOM, a weaver. FLUTE, a bellows-mender. SNOUT, a tinker. STARVELING, a tailor.

HIPPOLYTA, queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus. HERMIA, daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander. HELENA, in love with Demetrius.

OBERON, king of the fairies. TITANIA, queen of the fairies. PUCK, or Robin Goodfellow. PEASEBLOSSOM, fairy. COBWEB, ” MOTH, ” MUSTARDSEED, ”

Other fairies attending their King and Queen. Attendants on Theseus and Hippolyta.

SCENE—_Athens, and a wood near it._

~~~~~ Footnote:

1: DRAMATIS PERSONÆ] first given by Rowe. ~~~~~

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MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM.