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der was committed at Pelusium, an island-like spot in the midst of morasses at the easternmost mouth of the Nile.

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IV. ii. 86. Chatham'; Rowe's emendation; Folio 1, 'Chartam'; Folios 2, 3, 4, Chattam,'

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hateth'; Marshall, 'the traitor Jack Cade hateth thee.'

IV. vii. 36. thou hast caused printing to be used'; printing was not really introduced into England until twenty years later. IV. vii. 62, 63. Cæsar says in Book V. of the "Commentaries," 'Ex his omnibus sunt humanissimi qui Cantium incolunt,' which Golding rendered (1590), ' Of all the inhabitants of this isle, the civilest are the Kentish folke.'

IV. vii. 64. because full'; Hanmer reads 'beauteous, full'; Vaughan, 'bounteous, full,' etc.

IV. vii. 72. But to maintain (Johnson; Rann); 'Kent to m.,' the reading of Folios; Steevens, Bent to m.'; Malone, 'Kent to m.,' etc.

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IV. vii. 92. 'The help of hatchet,' so Folio 1; Folios 2, 3, 4, 'the help of a hatchet'; Farmer, pap with a hatchet,' a singularly happy emendation.

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IV. vii. 113. Sir James Cromer'; it was Sir William Cromer whom Cade beheaded.

IV. viii. 13. rebel'; Singer's emendation (Collier MS. and Anon MS.) of Folios, rabble'; Vaughan, ' ribald.'

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IV. ix. 26. Of gallowglasses and stout kernes'; Hanmer

reads, 'Of desp'rate gallowglasses,' etc.; Capell, Of nimble g.,' etc.; Dyce, 'Of savage g.,' etc.; 'stout'; Mitford, 'stout Irish '; 'kernes'; Keightley, 'kernes, he'; Vaughan, 'kernes supplied.' IV. ix. 29. arms'; Folio 1, 'Armes'; Folios 2, 3, 4, Armies.' IV. ix. 33. calm'd,' the reading of Folio 4; Folio 1, 'calme';

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Folio 2, claimd'; Folio 3, 'claim'd'; Beckett, cramp'd';

Walker,' chased.'

IV. ix. 36. I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him'; Staunton, 'Go, I pray thee, B.,' etc.; Rowe reads, 'go and meet with him'; Malone, ' to go and meet him'; Steevens (1793), 'go forth and meet him'; Collier (Collier MS.), 'then go and meet him; Dyce, 'go thou and meet him.'

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IV. x. 1. Fie on ambition'; so the later Folios; Folio 1, 'Ambitions.

IV. x. 30. eat iron like an ostrich.' Cp. illustration.

From a XVth century illumination.

IV. x. 46. ‘That Alexander Iden, an esquire of Kent'; Capell, "squir'; Marshall omits 'an,' following Hall.

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IV. x. 56. As for words whose greatness answers words'; Rowe reads, As for more words,' etc.; Mason, 'As for mere words, etc.; Dyce (Anon. conj.), 'But as for words, etc., etc. IV. x. 62. 'God'; Malone's correction (from Quartos) of 'Ioue of the Folios.

IV. x. 84. And as I thrust thy body in with my sword'; Dyce (Lloyd conj.), omits 'in.'

V. i. 74. Alexander Iden, that's my name'; Capell, 'My name is Alexander Iden, sir'; Hanmer, 'Ev'n Alexander, etc.; Edd., 'Iden, Alexander Iden,' etc.; Keightley, ‘Alexander Iden, that's my name, my liege,' etc.

V. i. 78. 'Iden, kneel down.

Rise up a knight'; Hanmer reads, 'Iden kneel down; and rise thou up a knight'; Dyce

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(Lettsom conj.) Iden, kneel down. Iden, rise up a knight'; Vaughan, 'Iden, kneel down; and now rise up Sir Alexander.' V. i. 95. 'darest'; monosyllabic; Folio I, dar'st'; Folios 2, 3, 4, 'durst.'

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V. i. 109. 'these'; Theobald's correction of thee' of the Folios.

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V. i. 130. mistakest'; so Folios 2, 3, 4; Folio 1, 'mistakes.' V. i. 146. 'fell-lurking'; Roderick, fell-barking'; Hudson (Heath conj.), 'fell-lurching'; Collier (Collier MS.), 'felllooking'; Capell, 'fell lurking.'

V. i. 170. 'shame'; Dyce (Walker conj.), 'stain.'

V. i. 211. victorious'; so Folio 1; Folios 2, 3, 4, read 'victorious noble.'

V. ii. 28. La fin couronne les œuvres'; i.e. the end crowns the work.' Folio I reads, Corrone les eumenes'; Folios 2, 3, 4, 'Corronne les oevres.'

V. ii. 42. 'Knit earth and heaven together'; Vaughan adds 'in one blase.'

V. ii. 66. 'So, lie thou there'; Malone supposes that a line has been omitted here, equivalent to 'Behold the prophecy is come to pass'; Vaughan conj. adds 'fulfilling prophecy.'

V. ii. 87. 'parts'; Hanmer reads 'pow'rs'; Warburton, 'party' ; Collier MS., 'frends'; Dyce (Walker conj.), 'part.'

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V. iii. I. of'; Collier MS. (from Quartos), 'Old,' adopted by Dyce.

V. iii. 29. 'faith'; Malone's correction Folios,'hand.'

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From an illumination in the poems of the Duke of Orleans (Royal MS., 16F2).

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From a contemporary MS. preserved in the Public Library at Ghent.

Explanatory Notes.

The Explanatory Notes in this edition have been specially selected and adapted, with emendations after the latest and best authorities, from the most eminent Shakespearian scholars and commentators, including Johnson, Malone, Steevens, Singer, Dyce, Hudson, White, Furness, Dowden, and others. This method, here introduced for the first time, provides the best annotation of Shakespeare ever embraced in a single edition.

ACT FIRST.
Scene I.

58. Anjou and Maine:-The reader will observe that this item does not run the same as it did in the hands of Gloucester. Malone thinks that the words of the instrument could not thus vary while it was passing from the hands of Gloucester to those of the Cardinal. Some have supposed that Gloucester had caught the drift and substance of the document, but the dimness of his eyes prevented his reading with literal exactness. But others regard the discrepancy as due to an oversight on the part of the dramatist. 75-103. Every line of this speech, except the first, is marked by Malone, as being altered from the Quarto. That the reader may have a specimen of the changes in the Folio, we subjoin the whole speech as it stands in the Quarto:—

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'Brave peers of England, pillars of the state,

To you Duke Humphrey must unfold his grief.
What! did my brother Henry toil himself,
And waste his subjects, for to conquer France?
And did my brother Bedford spend his time,
To keep in awe that stout unruly realm?
And have not I and mine uncle Beaufort here
Done all we could to keep that land in peace?
And are all our labours, then, spent quite in vain?
For Suffolk he, the new-made duke that rules the roost,

Hath given away, for our King Henry's queen,
The duchies of Anjou and Maine unto her father.

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