Chapter IV: Act II: See note (V)

SCENE I. A hall...] Theobald. L.’s House. Pope. See note (VI).

Enter...] Enter L., his brother, his wife, Hero his daughter and Beatrice his niece and a kinsman. Q Ff. (and kinsman F3 F4). See note (I).

15: _a’_] Collier. _a_ Q. _he_ Ff.

26: _the woollen_] _woollen_ Rowe (ed. 2).

27: _on_] Q. _upon_ Ff.

34: _bear-ward_] Collier. _Berrord_ Q F1 F2. _Bearherd_ F3 F4.

35: _hell?_] Hanmer. _hell._ Q Ff. _hell,_—Theobald.

35–41: Put in the margin as spurious by Warburton.

37: _horns_] _his horns_ F4.

40: _Peter for the heavens;_] Pope. _Peter: for the heavens,_ Q Ff. _Peter. for the heavens!_ Staunton.

44, 47: _courtesy_] _cursie_ Q. _curtsie_ Ff.

45: _Father_] Q. om. Ff.

47: _please_] Q F1. _pleases_ F2 F3 F4.

52: _an account_] Q. _account_ Ff.

53: _wayward_] _cold wayward_ F3 F4.

54: _my_] om. F3 F4.

59: _important_] _importunate_ Rowe (ed. 2).

61: _hear_] _here_ Q.

62: _as_] om. Rowe.

65: _ancientry_] _aunchentry_ Q F1 F2. _anchentry_ F3 F4.

67: _sink_] _sincke_ Q. _sinkes_ F1 F2. _sinks_ F3 F4. _sink apace_ Collier MS. See note (V).

72: All...masks] L. and his company mask. Capell.

73: SCENE II. Pope.

Enter...masked.] Enter Prince, Pedro, Claudio, and Benedicke,
and Balthasar, or dumb John. Q. Enter...John, Maskers with a
drum. Ff.

82–85: Printed as two verses by Grant White.

83: _Jove_] Q. _Love_ F1. _love_ F2 F3 F4.

84, 85: Hero..._thatch’d_. D. Pedro..._love_] Hero..._thatch’d. Speak...speak, Jove._ Anon. conj.

85: D. Pedro] Marg. Heath conj. [Drawing her aside] Capell.

86, 89, 91: These lines are given to Benedick in Q Ff. Theobald gives them to Balthasar.

87: Marg.] Mas. F4. See note (VIII.)

90: Marg.] Mask. F4.

91: [Turning off in quest of another. Capell.

96: [Parting different ways. Capell.

101: _ill-well_] Theobald. _ill well_ Q Ff. _ill Will_ Rowe. _ill, well_ Pope.

106: _mum,_] _mumme,_ Q Ff. _mummer,_ Anon. conj.

107: [Mixing with the company. Capell.

110: _not tell_] Q F1. _tell_ F2 F3 F4.

116: Beat.] om. F2.

121: _impossible_] _impassible_ Warburton.

123: _pleases_] Q. _pleaseth_ Ff.

131: [Music] Musick within. Theobald. [Musick begins: Dance forming. Capell.

135: [Dance......Claudio] Dance. Exeunt. Q. [Exeunt. Musicke for the dance. Ff. [Exeunt. Manent Don. J., B. and C. Warburton. [Dance: and exeunt D. Ped. and Leo. conversing...Capell.

136: SCENE III. Pope.

146: _you_] _ye_ Theobald.

152: _these_] _this_ F3 F4.

156: _their_] _your_ Hanmer.

158: _for_] om. Pope.

161: _therefore_] _then_ Pope.

167: _county_] Q. _Count_ Ff.

_of_] Q F4. _off_ F1 F2 F3.

168: _an_] _a_ F4.

172: _drovier_] Q Ff. _drover_ Rowe (ed. 2)

176: _Ho! now_] _Ho now_ Q F1. _Ho no!_ F2 F3. _No no!_ F4.

179: _fowl_] _foule_ Q. _fowle_ F1. _soule_ F2. _soul_ F3 F4.

181: _Ha?_] F2 F3 F4. _hah,_ Q. _Hah?_ F1.

182: _Yea_] Q F1. _you_ F2. _yet_ F3 F4.

182, 3: _so...wrong;_] _so; (but...wrong)_ Capell.

183: _base,_] _bare_ Anon. conj.

184: _though bitter_] _the bitter_ Steevens (Johnson conj.). _tough, bitter_ Jackson conj. _through-bitter_ Anon. conj.

_world_] _word_ F3 F4.

187: SCENE IV. Pope.

Re-enter Don Pedro.] Enter the Prince. Ff. Enter the Prince,
Hero, Leonato, John and Borachio, and Conrade. Q.

191: _I told_] Q. _told_ Ff.

192: _good_] Q. om. Ff.

_this_] _his_ S. Walker conj.

194: _up_] Q. om. Ff.

198, 205: _birds’_] _birds_ Q Ff. _bird’s_ Rowe (ed. 2).

214: _but with_] _with but_ Capell conj.

217: _that_] Q. _and that_ Ff.

218: _impossible_] _impassable_ Theobald (Warburton). See note (IX). _impetuous_ Hanmer. _importable_ Johnson conj. _imposeable_ Becket conj. _unportable _ Collier MS. _impitiable_ Jackson.

222: _her terminations_] Q. _terminations_ Ff. _her minations_ S. Walker conj.

223: _to the north_] _the north_ Warburton conj.

225: _left_] _lent_ Collier MS.

228: _the infernal_] _in the infernal_ F3 F4.

233: _follows_] _follow_ Pope.

235: SCENE V. Pope.

240: _off_] _of_ Collier. See note (X).

242: _You have_] _Have you_ Collier MS.

245: _my Lady Tongue._] Q. _this_ _Lady Tongue_ F1. _this lady’s tongue_ F2 F3 F4.

249: _his_] Q. _a_ Ff.

263: _civil count_] _civil, count_ Theobald.

264: _that jealous_] Q. _a jealous_ Ff. _as jealous a_ Collier MS.

266: _I’ll_] Q F1. _I_ F2 F3 F4.

268, 269: _and his...obtained:_] Pope. _and his...obtained,_ Q Ff. _and, his...obtained,_ Collier.

284: _her_] Q. _my_ Ff.

287: _to_] _through_ Jackson conj.

_world_] _wood_ Johnson conj.

288: _heigh-ho for a husband!_] See note (XI).

299: _of_] Ff. _a_ Q. _o’_ Edd. conj.

302: _was I_] Q F1 F2. _I was_ F3 F4.

308: SCENE VI. Pope.

_pleasant-spirited_] Theobald. _pleasant spirited_ Q Ff.

311: _ever_] _even_ Anon. conj.

312: _unhappiness_] _an happiness_ Theobald.

320: _County_] _Countie_ Q. _Counte_ F1. _Count_ F2 F3 F4.

326: _my_] Q. om. Ff. _our_ Collier MS.

331: _mountain_] _mooting_ Johnson conj.

_mountain of affection_] _mounting affection of_ Becket conj.

331, 332: _the...the_] _th’...th’_ Q Ff.

333: _but_] om. Pope.

350: _in_] om. F3 F4. ~~~~~

SCENE II. _The same._

_Enter_ DON JOHN _and_ BORACHIO.

_D. John._ It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the daughter of Leonato.

_Bora._ Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.

_D. John._ Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him; and 5 whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?

_Bora._ Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no dishonesty shall appear in me.

_D. John._ Show me briefly how. 10

_Bora._ I think I told your lordship, a year since, how much I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting gentlewoman to Hero.

_D. John._ I remember.

_Bora._ I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night, 15 appoint her to look out at her lady’s chamber window.

_D. John._ What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?

_Bora._ The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that he 20 hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned Claudio —whose estimation do you mightily hold up—to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.

_D. John._ What proof shall I make of that?

_Bora._ Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio, 25 to undo Hero, and kill Leonato. Look you for any other issue?

_D. John._ Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.

_Bora._ Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro 30 and the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio, as,—in love of your brother’s honour, who hath made this match, and his friend’s reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the semblance of a maid,—that you 35 have discovered thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial: offer them instances; which shall bear no less likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window; hear me call Margaret, Hero; hear Margaret term me Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night before the intended 40 wedding,—for in the meantime I will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be absent,—and there shall appear such seeming truth of Hero’s disloyalty, that jealousy shall be called assurance and all the preparation overthrown.

_D. John._ Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will 45 put it in practice. Be cunning in the working this, and thy fee is a thousand ducats.

_Bora._ Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning shall not shame me.

_D. John._ I will presently go learn their day of marriage. 50

[_Exeunt._

~~~~~ Linenotes: _Much Ado About Nothing_, II. 2.

SCENE II.] SCENE VII. Pope.

The same] Edd. Scene changes. Pope. Scene changes to another apartment in L.’s house. Theobald.

30: _Don_] Q. _on_ Ff.

33: _in love_] Q. _in a love_ Ff.

33–35: _as,—in...maid,—that_] Capell, _(as in...match)...maid, that_ Q Ff.

36: _scarcely_] _hardly_ Rowe.

39: _Claudio_] _Borachio_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). See note (XII).

41: _so_] om. F3 F4.

43: _truth_] Q. _truths_ Ff. _proofs_ Collier MS.

_Hero’s_] _her_ Capell.

48: _you_] Q, Capell. _thou_ Ff. ~~~~~

SCENE III. LEONATO’S _orchard_.

_Enter_ BENEDICK.

_Bene._ Boy!

_Enter_ Boy.

_Boy._ Signior?

_Bene._ In my chamber-window lies a book: bring it hither to me in the orchard.

_Boy._ I am here already, sir. 5

_Bene._ I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again. [_Exit Boy._] I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviours to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own 10 scorn by falling in love: and such a man is Claudio. I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe: I have known when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake, 15 carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his words are a very fantastical banquet,—just so many strange dishes. May I be so converted, and see with these eyes? I cannot tell; I 20 think not: I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I’ll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well: but till all graces 25 be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that’s certain; wise, or I’ll none; virtuous, or I’ll never cheapen her; fair, or I’ll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her 30 hair shall be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour.

[_Withdraws._

_Enter_ DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, _and_ LEONATO.

_D. Pedro._ Come, shall we hear this music?

_Claud._ Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is, As hush’d on purpose to grace harmony! 35

_D. Pedro._ See you where Benedick hath hid himself?

_Claud._ O, very well, my lord: the music ended, We’ll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth.

_Enter_ BALTHASAR _with Music_.

_D. Pedro._ Come, Balthasar, we’ll hear that song again.

_Balth._ O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice 40 To slander music any more than once.

_D. Pedro._ It is the witness still of excellency To put a strange face on his own perfection. I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more.

_Balth._ Because you talk of wooing, I will sing; 45 Since many a wooer doth commence his suit To her he thinks not worthy, yet he wooes, Yet will he swear he loves.

_D. Pedro._ Nay, pray thee, come; Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument, Do it in notes.

_Balth._ Note this before my notes; 50 There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

_D. Pedro._ Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks; Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing. [_Air._

_Bene._ Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is it not strange that sheeps’ guts should hale souls out of men’s 55 bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when all’s done.

The Song.

_Balth._ Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never: 60
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no moe, 65
Of dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leavy:
Then sigh not so, &c.

_D. Pedro._ By my troth, a good song. 70

_Balth._ And an ill singer, my lord.

_D. Pedro._ Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift.

_Bene._ An he had been a dog that should have howled thus, they would have hanged him: and I pray God his 75 bad voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what plague could have come after it.

_D. Pedro._ Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee, get us some excellent music; for to-morrow night we would have it at the Lady Hero’s chamber-window. 80

_Balth._ The best I can, my lord.

_D. Pedro._ Do so: farewell. [_Exit Balthasar_.] Come hither, Leonato. What was it you told me of to-day, that your niece Beatrice was in love with Signior Benedick? 85

_Claud._ O, ay: stalk on, stalk on; the fowl sits. I did never think that lady would have loved any man.

_Leon._ No, nor I neither; but most wonderful that she should so dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in all outward behaviours seemed ever to abhor. 90

_Bene._ Is’t possible? Sits the wind in that corner?

_Leon._ By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think of it, but that she loves him with an enraged affection; it is past the infinite of thought.

_D. Pedro._ May be she doth but counterfeit. 95

_Claud._ Faith, like enough.

_Leon._ O God, counterfeit! There was never counterfeit of passion came so near the life of passion as she discovers it.

_D. Pedro._ Why, what effects of passion shows she?

_Claud._ Bait the hook well; this fish will bite. 100

_Leon._ What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard my daughter tell you how.

_Claud._ She did, indeed.

_D. Pedro._ How, how, I pray you? You amaze me: I would have thought her spirit had been invincible against 105 all assaults of affection.

_Leon._ I would have sworn it had, my lord; especially against Benedick.

_Bene._ I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide himself 110 in such reverence.

_Claud._ He hath ta’en the infection: hold it up.

_D. Pedro._ Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?

_Leon._ No; and swears she never will: that’s her 115 torment.

_Claud._ ’Tis true, indeed; so your daughter says: ‘Shall I,’ says she, ‘that have so oft encountered him with scorn, write to him that I love him?’ 120

_Leon._ This says she now when she is beginning to write to him; for she’ll be up twenty times a night; and there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all.

_Claud._ Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember 125 a pretty jest your daughter told us of.

_Leon._ O, when she had writ it, and was reading it over, she found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet?

_Claud._ That.

_Leon._ O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence; 130 railed at herself, that she should be so immodest to write to one that she knew would flout her; ‘I measure him,’ says she, ‘by my own spirit; for I should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I love him, I should.’

_Claud._ Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, 135 sobs, beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses; ‘O sweet Benedick! God give me patience!’

_Leon._ She doth indeed; my daughter says so: and the ecstasy hath so much overborne her, that my daughter is sometime afeard she will do a desperate outrage to herself: 140 it is very true.

_D. Pedro._ It were good that Benedick knew of it by some other, if she will not discover it.

_Claud._ To what end? He would make but a sport of it, and torment the poor lady worse. 145

_D. Pedro._ An he should, it were an alms to hang him. She’s an excellent sweet lady; and, out of all suspicion, she is virtuous.

_Claud._ And she is exceeding wise.

_D. Pedro._ In every thing but in loving Benedick. 150

_Leon._ O, my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood hath the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just cause, being her uncle and her guardian.

_D. Pedro._ I would she had bestowed this dotage on 155 me: I would have daffed all other respects, and made her half myself. I pray you, tell Benedick of it, and hear what a’ will say.

_Leon._ Were it good, think you?

_Claud._ Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says she 160 will die, if he love her not; and she will die, ere she make her love known; and she will die, if he woo her, rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed crossness.

_D. Pedro._ She doth well: if she should make tender of her love, ’tis very possible he’ll scorn it; for the man, as 165 you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.

_Claud._ He is a very proper man.

_D. Pedro._ He hath indeed a good outward happiness.

_Claud._ Before God! and in my mind, very wise.

_D. Pedro._ He doth indeed show some sparks that are 170 like wit.

_Claud._ And I take him to be valiant.

_D. Pedro._ As Hector, I assure you: and in the managing of quarrels you may say he is wise; for either he avoids them with great discretion, or undertakes them with a most 175 Christian-like fear.

_Leon._ If he do fear God, a’ must necessarily keep peace: if he break the peace, he ought to enter into a quarrel with fear and trembling.

_D. Pedro._ And so will he do; for the man doth fear 180 God, howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests he will make. Well, I am sorry for your niece. Shall we go seek Benedick, and tell him of her love?

_Claud._ Never tell him, my lord: let her wear it out with good counsel. 185

_Leon._ Nay, that’s impossible: she may wear her heart out first.

_D. Pedro._ Well, we will hear further of it by your daughter: let it cool the while. I love Benedick well; and I could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see 190 how much he is unworthy so good a lady.

_Leon._ My lord, will you walk? dinner is ready.

_Claud._ If he do not dote on her upon this, I will never trust my expectation.

_D. Pedro._ Let there be the same net spread for her; 195 and that must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry. The sport will be, when they hold one an opinion of another’s dotage, and no such matter: that’s the scene that I would see, which will be merely a dumb-show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner. 200

[_Exeunt Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato._

_Bene._ [_Coming forward_] This can be no trick: the conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: it seems her affections have their full bent. Love me! why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured: they say I will bear myself 205 proudly, if I perceive the love come from her; they say too that she will rather die than give any sign of affection. I did never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending. They say the lady is fair,—’tis a truth, I can 210 bear them witness; and virtuous,—’tis so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving me,—by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her. I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I 215 have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I 220 said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day! she’s a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in her.

_Enter_ BEATRICE.

_Beat._ Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. 225

_Bene._ Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.

_Beat._ I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come.

_Bene._ You take pleasure, then, in the message? 230

_Beat._ Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife’s point, and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. [_Exit._

_Bene._ Ha! ‘Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;’ there’s a double meaning in that. ‘I took 235 no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me;’ that’s as much as to say, Any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture. [_Exit._ 240

~~~~~ Linenotes: _Much Ado About Nothing_, II. 3.

SCENE III.] SCENE VIII. Pope.

Enter Benedick.] Collier. Enter Benedick alone. Q Ff. Enter B. and a Boy. Rowe. Enter B. and a Boy following. Staunton.

1: Enter Boy.] Collier, om. Q Ff.

7: [Exit Boy.] Exit. Q. Ff (after line 5).

18: _orthography_] Ff. _ortography_ Q. _orthographer_ Rowe (ed. 2). _orthographist_ Capell conj.

22: _an_] _and_ Q.

27–30: See note (XIII).

29: _I_] Q. om. Ff.

33: SCENE IX. Pope.

Enter......Leonato] Capell. Enter prince, Leonato, Claudio, Musicke. Q. Enter Prince, L., C. and Jacke Wilson. Ff.

38: _kid-fox_] _cade fox_ Hanmer. _hid fox_ Warburton.

Enter...Music] Q. om. Ff.

40: _tax_] _task_ Capell conj.

41, 42: F1 repeats these lines in the turn of the page.

45–56: Put into the margin as spurious by Pope.

53: _nothing_] Q Ff. _noting_ Theobald.

65: _moe_] Q F1. _more_ F2 F3 F4.

66: _Of_] _Or_ Collier MS.

67: _fraud...was_] Q. _fraud...were_ Ff. _frauds...were_ Pope.

68: _leavy_] _leafy_ Pope.

72: _no, no_] _ne no_ F4.

_no, faith;_] _no; faith,_ Collier.

74: _An_] Capell. _And_ Q Ff. _If_ Pope.

76: _lief_] _live_ Q.

79: _us_] om. Rowe.

_night_] om. Pope.

82: [Exit B.] Exeunt Bal. and Musick. Capell. See note (XIV).

93, 94: _it,...affection;_] _it,...affection,_ Q Ff. _it;...affection,_ Pope. _it;...affection,—_ Capell.

94: _infinite_] _definite_ Warburton.

100: _this_] Q F1. _the_ F2 F3 F4.

102: _tell you_] _tell_ Capell.

124: _paper_] _paper full_ Collier MS.

126: _us of_] _of us_ Q.

127: _was_] om. F3 F4.

128: _over_] _ever_ F2.

_sheet?_] Capell. _sheet._ Q Ff. _sheets._ Collier MS.

133: _for_] om. Rowe.

136: _prays, curses_] _prays, cries_ Collier MS. _curses, prays_ Halliwell.

140: _afeard_] Q Ff. _afraid_ Rowe.

144: _make but_] Q. _but make_ Ff.

146: _alms_] _alms-deed_ Collier MS.

156: _daffed_] Johnson. _daft_ Q Ff. _dofft_ Pope. _dafft_ Theobald.

158: _a’_] _a_ Q. _he_ Ff.

166: _contemptible_] _contemptuous_ Hanmer.

169: _Before_] Q. _’Fore_ Ff.

172: Claud.] Q. Leon. Ff.

174: _say_] Q. _see_ Ff.

175: _most_] Q. om. Ff.

177–182: Leon. _If he...make._] Put into the margin as spurious by Pope.

177: _a’ must_] _a must_ Q Ff. _he must_ Rowe.

183: _seek_] Q. _see_ Ff.

184: _wear_] _wait_ Rowe (ed. I).

190: _see_] _shew_ Rowe (ed. I).

191: _unworthy_] Q. _unworthy to have_ Ff.

196: _gentlewomen_] Q. _gentlewoman_ Ff.

197: _one an opinion of another’s_] _an opinion of one another’s_ Pope.

200: _in to_] Q F4. _into_ F1 F2 F3. _to_ Rowe (ed. I).

201: SCENE X. Pope.

204: _their_] Q. _the_ Ff.

214: _have_] _to have_ Rowe.

215: _remnants_] Q F1. _remains_ F2 F3 F4.

217: _youth...age_] _age...youth_ Collier MS.

224: _in to_] _into_ F3.

225: _dinner_] See note (XV).

232: _knife’s_] Pope. _knives_ Q Ff.

_choke_] _not choke_ Collier MS.

235: _in to_] _into_ F1.

238: _is_] _are_ Hanmer. ~~~~~