I. i. 94. 'Reignier'; Rowe's emendation of 'Reynold' of the Folios.

I. i. 95. The Duke of Alençon'; Walker omits of,' to improve the rhythm of the line.

I. i. 96. crowned'; Rowe's emendation; ' crown'd,' the reading of the Folios.

I. i. 124. 'flew,' Rowe's correction; Folios, 'slew.'

I. i. 128. 'A Talbot! a Talbot! cried out amain.' The line has been variously emended as being defective, metrically. Pone, ‘A Talbot! Talbot! cried'; Seymour, 'A Talbot! cried, a Talbot!'; Vaughan, 'Talbot! a Talbot! cried.' If, however, 'cried' is read as a dissyllable, the movement of the line is parallel to that of 'prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,' in Richard II. iv., and no correction seems necessary

A Tálbot! | A Tálbot! | crí | ed óut | amáin | .

I. i. 131. Sir John Fastolfe'; Theobald's emendation here and elsewhere of Folios, 'Sir John Falstaffe'; but in all probability Falstaff was the popular form of the name, and it is questionable whether the text should be altered here. "He was a lieutenantgeneral, deputy regent to the Duke of Bedford in Normandy, and a Knight of the Garter."

I. i. 176. 'steal,' Mason's conjecture; Folio, 'send'; Keightley, 'fetch.'

I. ii. 1. ‘Mars his true moving'; cp. “ You are as ignorant in the true movings of my muse as the astronomers are in the true movings of Mars, which to this day they could not attain to," quoted by Steevens from one of Nash's prefaces to Gabriel Harvey's Hunt's Up,' 1596. Kepler's work on Mars (Comment. de Motibus Stella Martis) was published in 1609.

I. ii. 13. 'live'; Capell, 'sit'; Walker, 'lie.'

I. ii. 30. 'bred'; Folios, breed.'

I. ii. 56. nine sibyls of old Rome.' The number of the Sibyls is variously given as three, four, seven, ten; possibly the nine' is here due to confusion with the nine Sibylline books.

I. ii. 86. which you see,' reading of Folios 2, 3, 4; Folio 1, 'which you may see.'

I. ii. 99. 'five'; Folios, 'fine.'

I. ii. IOI.

Out of a great deal of old iron'; Dyce's conjecture, out of a deal old iron,' seems the best of the emendations proposed.

I. ii. 103. ne'er fly from a man'; so Folio 1; Folios 2, 3, 4,

'ne're flye no man'; Collier MS., 'ne'er fly from no man'; there was probably some jingle intended:

CHAR. Then come, o' God's name; I fear no woman.

Puc. And while I live, I'll ne'er fly from no man.

I. ii. 108.thy desire' desire for thee.

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I. ii. 131. Expect Saint Martin's summer'; "expect prosperity after misfortune, like fair weather at Martlemas, after winter has begun" (Johnson). St. Martin's Day is November 11th.

I. ii. 138. That proud insulting ship, Which Cæsar and his fortune bare at once,' evidently suggested by the following passage in North's translation of Plutarch's "Life of Cæsar -" Cæsar hearing that, straight discovered himself unto the master of the pynnace, who at first was amazed when he saw him; but Cæsar, then taking him by the hand, said unto him, good fellow, be of good cheer, and fear not, for thou hast Cæsar and his

fortune with thee."

I. ii. 140. Mahomet inspired with a dove'; cp. "he (Mahomet) used to feed (a dove) with wheat out of his ear; which dove, when it was hungry, lighted on Mahomet's shoulder, and thrust its bill in to find its breakfast; Mahomet persuading the rude and simple Arabians that it was the Holy Ghost that gave him advice" (Raleigh's "History of the World”), I. i. vi. I. ii. 143. Saint Philip's daughters'; Philip mentioned in the Acts

The Duke of Gloster.

From a XVIIth century engraving, the original of which was at that time in a painted window at Greenwich.

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I. ii. 145. reverently worship'; Capell, ever worship'; Steevens. reverence, worship'; Dyce (Collier MS.), reverent worship'; the last seems the only plausible reading.

I. ii. 148. 6 Orleans,' Folios, 'Orleance'; Capell, ' hence.'

I. iii. 4. 'tis Gloucester'; Pope's emendation; Folios, ''tis Gloster'; Steevens, it is Gloster, etc.; cp. 1. 62 below, where Folios similarly read' Gloster."'

jurisdiction of the bishop of Winchester" (Pope).

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I. iii. 72. as e'er thou canst; Cry'; Folios, as e'er thou canst, cry'; Collier MS., as thou canst cry.'

I. iii. 82. cost,' Folios 2, 3, 4, deare cost.'

I. iii. 88. 'it ere long'; so Folios 1, 2; Folios 3, 4, 'it e're be long'; Capell, 'it, ere't be long'; Collier MS., 'it off, ere long'; Orson,' at it.'

I. iv. 22. on the turrets,' Folios, in an upper chamber of a tower' (Malone).

I. iv. 27. Duke'; Theobald's emendation of 'Earle' of the Folios.

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I. iv. 33. so vile-esteem'd'; Pope, 'so vilde esteem'd'; Folios, 'so pil'd esteem'd'; Capell, ́so pill'd esteem'd'; Mason, ‘so illesteem'd,' etc.

I. iv. 95. like thee, Nero,' Malone; Folio 1, 'like thee'; Folio 2, 'Nero like will'; Folios 3, 4, Nero like, will'; Pope, 'Nerolike,' etc.

I. iv. 101. Joan la Pucelle'; Folios, 'Joan de Puzel' (and elsewhere).

I. v. 6. 'Blood will I draw on thee, thou art a witch'; "the superstition of those times taught that he that could draw the witch's blood was free from her power" (Johnson).

I. v. 21. 'like Hannibal,' who, in order to escape, devised the stratagem of fixing lighted twigs to the horns of oxen. (Cp. Livy, xxii. 16.)

I. v. 30. treacherous from'; so Folios 3, 4; Folios 1, 2, 'treacherous from'; Pope, 'tim'rous from.'

I. vi. 2. 'English' (trisyllabic), so Folio 1; Folios 2, 3, 4, 'English wolves'; Staunton, English dogs.'

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I. vi. 6. 'Adonis' gardens.' " The proverb alluded to seems always to have been used in a bad sense, for things which make a fair show for a few days, and then wither away; but the author of this play, desirous of making a show of his learning, without considering its propriety, has made the Dauphin apply it as an encomium (Blakeway). Cp. Faerie Queen, III. vi. 29; Folio 1, 'Garden.'

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I. vi. 22. 'Than Rhodope's or Memphis',' Hanmer's emendation; Folios, or Memphis'; Capell's of Memphis' has been generally adopted. Pliny, writing of the pyramids near Memphis, records that “the fairest and most commended for workmanship was built at the cost and charges of one Rhodope, a verie strumpet."

I. vi. 25. the rich-jewel'd coffer of Darius'; referred to by

Plutarch in his "Life of Alexander," as the "preciousest thing, and the richest that was gotten of all spoyls and riches, taken at the overthrow of Darius . . . he said he would put the Iliads of Homer into it, as the worthiest thing."

II. i. 8. 'redoubted Burgundy'; Duke of Burgundy, surnamed Philip the Good.

II. i. 29. all together'; Rowe's emendation of altogether' of Folios.

II. i. 40. 'ay, and glad'; Folios, 'I and glad'; Pope, 'I am glad.'

II. i. 63. 'your quarters'; 'your, so Folio 1; Folios 2, 3, 4, 'our'; ' quarters'; so Folios 1, 2, 3; Folio 4, Quarter.'

II. ii. 20. Arc, Rowe's emendation of 'Acre' of Folios.

II. ii. 38. Auvergne'; Rowe's emendation of Folio I, 'Ouergne'; Folios 2, 3, ́Auergne'; Folio 4,' Avergne.'

II. iii. 49. 'I substance'; Vaughan proposed to read, 'I shadow, aye and substance.'

II. iv. 6. ' in the error'; Johnson (adopted by Capell), '' the right'; Hudson, ' in error.'

The Temple Garden.

II. iv. 83. His grandfather was Lionel, Duke of Clarence'; this is erroneous; Duke Lionel was his maternal great-great-grandfather.

II. iv. 91. 'executed'; Pope, headed'; Steevens, 'execute' (probably to be read as a dissyllable).

II. iv. 117.

wiped'; Folios 2, 3, 4,' wip't'; Folio 1, 'whipt.'

II. iv. 127. a thousand'; Collier MS., ' Ten thousand.'

II. iv. 132. gentle sir'; so Folios 2, 3, 4; Folio 1, ‘gentle.' Anon conj. 'gentlemen.'

II. iv. The Temple Garden. (Cp. illustration.)

II. v. ́enter Mortimer'; Edmund Mortimer served under Henry V. in 1422, and died in his castle in Ireland in 1424.

II. v. 6. an age of care'; Collier MS., ' a cage of care.'

II. v. 74. For by my mother I derived am'; 'mother' should strictly be 'grandmother,' i.e. his father's mother.

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II. v. 113. ́fair be all'; Theobald, ‘fair befal.'

II. v. 123. 'choked with ambition of the meaner sort,' i.e. shifted by the ambition of those whose right to the crown was inferior to his own" (Clarke).

II. v. 129. 'ill the advantage'; 'ill,' Theobald's emendation of 'will' of the Folios. Collier MS., 'will the advancer?

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III. i. 53. Ay, see'; Rowe's emendation of 'I, see' of the Folios; Hanmer, 'I'll see.'

III. i. 142. 'kind'; Pope, 'gentle'; Capell, 'kind, kind'; Collier MS., and kind'; probably the line should be read:

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O loving uncle. || Kind Dúke | of Gloucester."

III. i. 199. 'lose,' should lose; Folio 1, ‘loose'; Folios 2, 3, 4, 'should lose.

III. ii. 14. Paysans, pauvres gens de France'; Rowe's emendation of Folios, 'Peasauns la pouure,' etc.

III. ii. 40. ‘the pride'; Theobald, 'the prize'; Hanmer, being prize'; Jackson, 'the bride'; Vaughan, the gripe.'

III. ii. 52.

all despite'; Collier MS., 'hell's despite.'

III. ii. 73. God be wi' you'; Rowe's emendation of Folios, 'God b' uy.'

III. ii. 118. 'and martial'; Collier MS., and matchless'; Vaughan, unmatchable.'

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III. iii. 85. Done like a Frenchman: turn, and turn again'; the inconstancy of the French was always a subject of satire. I have read a dissertation to prove that the index of the wind upon