Note X
Note XI
II. 2. 40. Mr Dyce first suggested that 'Part' was intended as a stage-direction.
II. 2. 136-142. The first Quarto, followed substantially by the others, reads here:
'His fault is much, and the good King his Master
Will checke him for't; your purposd low correction
Is such, as basest and temnest wretches for pilfrings
And most common trespasses are punisht with,
The King must take it ill, that hee's so slightly valued
In his Messenger, should haue him thus restrained.'
Will checke him for't; your purposd low correction
Is such, as basest and temnest wretches for pilfrings
And most common trespasses are punisht with,
The King must take it ill, that hee's so slightly valued
In his Messenger, should haue him thus restrained.'
The Folios have only the following lines:
'The King his Master, needs must take it ill
That he so slightly valued in his Messenger,
Should haue him thus restrained.'
That he so slightly valued in his Messenger,
Should haue him thus restrained.'
In the last line the fourth Folio reads 'this' for 'thus.' Rowe followed the Folios. Pope first introduced the lines from the Quartos, and gave the arrangement adopted in our text. In the third and the last lines he introduced readings which we have given in the foot notes. The passage was first given in Capell's edition as it actually stands in our text.
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