Critical Notes.

BY ISRAEL GOLLANCZ.

Prol. 3. high and working'; Staunton reads 'and highworking.'

Prol. 12. Prol. 16. or jester.

shilling'; the usual price for a seat on or next the stage. a long motley coat'; the professional garb of a fool

Prol. 21. The line is either to be taken as a parenthesis, 'that' referring to opinion' (= reputation); or as following directly on 'opinion,' i.e. 'the reputation we bring of making what we represent strictly in accordance with truth.'

I. i. 6. Those suns of glory'; i.e. Francis I., King of France, and Henry VIII., King of England; Folios 3, 4, read, ‘sons.'

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I. i. 7. the vale of Andren. 'Twixt Guynes and Arde. Guynes, a town in Picardy belonging to the English; Arde, a town in Picardy belonging to the French; the vale of Andren between the the two towns was the scene of the famous 'Field of the Cloth of Gold.' Cp. illustration at end of Notes.

I. i. 63. Capell's reading of Folio 1, 'but spider-like, Out of his selfe-drawing web, O gives us note. Further, Capell and Rowe substituted' self-drawn' for 'self-drawing.'

out,

him in he

him in, he

I. i. 79, 80. The honourable papers'; Folios 1, 2, read The Councell, out papers, etc. Pope's explanation of these awkward lines is probably correct:-"His own letter, by his own single authority, and without the concurrence of the council, must fetch him in whom he papers (i.e. registers on the paper). Various emendations have been proposed; e.g. 'the papers'; 'he paupers.'

I. i. 86. minister communication'; Collier MS., 'the consummation'; but the phrase is Holinshed's.

I. i. 90. 'the hideous storm'; "On Mondaie, the eighteenth of June, was such an hideous storme of wind and weather, that manie coniectured it did prognosticate trouble and hatred shortlie after to follow betweene princes" (Holinshed).

I. i. 115. The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor was his cousin, Charles Knevet, or Knyvet, grandson of Humphrey Stafford, First Duke of Buckingham.

I. i. 120. 'venom-mouthed'; Pope's reading; Folios read, 'venom'd-mouth'd.

I. i. 152. 'Whom from the flow of gall I name not,' etc.; i.e. 'whom I mention, not because I am still angry,'; etc.

I. i. 167. 'renching'; the Camb. ed. rinsing,' Pope's unnecessary emendation of the Folio reading 'wrenching, which is evidently an error for 'renching,' a provincial English cognate of 'rinse,' both words being ultimately derived from the same Scandinavian original, rinse, through the medium of French, rench, a direct borrowing (Collier MS., 'wrensing').

I. i. 172. 'count-cardinal'; Pope proposed 'court-cardinal.' I. i. 176. Charles the Emperor, viz., Charles V., Emperor of Germany; Katharine was his mother's sister.

I. i. 200. 'Hereford'; Capell's reading; Folios, 'Hertford.'

I. i. 204, 206. The meaning of these unsatisfactory lines seems to be, as Johnson explained, "I am sorry to be present, and an eye-witness of your loss of liberty."

I. i. 211. 'Abergavenny'; Folios, 'Aburgany,' the usual pronunciation of the name.

I. i. 217. 'Montacute'; Folios read, 'Mountacute'; Rowe reads, 'Montague.'

I. i. 219. chancellor'; Theobald's correction; Folios 1, 2 read, , Councellour.'

I. i. 221. 'Nicholas Hopkins'; Theobald's correction (from Holinshed) of Folios, 'Michaell' (probably due to printer's confusion of 'Nich' with 'Mich').

I. ii. 67. 'business'; Warburton's emendation of Folios, ‘baseness.' I. ii. 147. ‘Henton'; i.e. Nicholas Hopkins, a monk of an house of the Chartreux Order beside Bristow, called Henton' (Holinshed); there is no need to emend the text.

I. ii. 164. confession's seal'; Theobald's emendation (following Holinshed) of Folios, 'commissions.'

I. ii. 170. To gain'; the reading of Folio 4; Folios 1, 2, 3 read, 'To'; Collier MS. reads, 'To get'; Grant White, 'To win.'

I. ii. 179. for him'; Capell's emendation of 'For this' of the Folios; Collier MS. reads, 'From this'; etc.

I. ii. 190. Bulmer'; Folios read, 'Blumer'; Pope, 'Blomer.' I. iii. 13. Or springhalt'; Verplanck's (Collier conj.) emendation of Folios, 'A springhalt'; Pope, 'And springhalt.'

I. iii. 34. ́wear'; the reading of Folios 2, 3, 4; Folio 1 reads, 'wee'; Anon. conj., ' oui.'

I. iii. 59. has wherewithal'; Folios, 'ha's,' probably an error for "'has,' i.e. '(he) has.'

I. iv. York Place. Cp. the annexed illustration.

From Anthony van den Wyngrerde's Bird's-eye View of London in 1543, now in the Sutherland collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

I. iv. 6. As, first, good company'; so Folios 1, 2, 3; Folio 4 'reads, 'As, first good company'; Theobald, 'as, first-good company'; Halliwell, as far as good company,' etc.

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II. i. 29. was either pitied in him or forgotten'; i.e. either produced no effect, or only ineffectual pity" (Malone).

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II. i. 54. Sir William Sands'; Theobald's emendation (from Holinshed) of Folio 1, Sir Walter Sands'; Folios 2, 3, 4, ' Walter Sands.'

II. i. 86. mark'; Warburton's emendation of Folios, 'make'' II. i. 105. 'I now seal it,' i.e. my truth,-with blood.

II. ii. 85. 'one have-at-him'; Folio 1, 'one; haue at him'; Folios 2, 3, 4, one heave at him'; Knight, 'one;-have at him.' II. ii. 94. Have their free voices, i.e. have liberty to express their opinions freely' (Grant White, 'Gave' for 'Have.')

II. iii. 14. that quarrel, fortune, do'; Folio 1 reads, ' that quarrell. Fortune, do'; Collier MS., ' that cruel fortune do'; Keightley, 'that quarrel, by fortune, do'; Lettsom conj. 'that fortunes quarrel do'; Hanmer, 'that quarr'ler, fortune do,' etc.

II. iii. 46. 'little England'; Steevens pointed out that Pembrokeshire was known as little England'; and as Anne Bullen was about to be made Marchioness of Pembroke, there may be a special point in the phrase.

II. iii. 92. the mud in Egypt, i.e. the land fertilized by the Nile's overflow.'

from a series of engravings published at Nancy, 1608, which depicts Duke Henry II. and his attendant the Duke of Mantua at the funeral of Charles III., Duke of Lorraine.

II. iv. 62. That longer you desire the court,' i.e. desire the court to delay its proceedings; Folio 4, 'defer'; Keightley conj. 'court delay'd.'

II. iv. 172. The Bishop of Bayonne'; strictly it should be 'the Bishop of Tarbes,' but the mistake was Holinshed's.

II. iv. 174. The Duke of Orleans' was the second son of Francis I., King of France.

II. iv. 182. the bosom of my conscience'; Holinshed's use of 'secret bottom of my conscience' justified Theobald's emendation of 'bosom' to 'bottom.'

II. iv. 199.

II. iv. 204.

II. iv. 225.

throe'; Pope's emendation Folios, 'throw.'
yet not,' i.e. not yet.

'drive'; Pope's emendation of Folios, 'drives.'

III. i. 38. and that way I am wife in'; i.e. concerning my conduct as a wife. (Rowe proposed 'wise' for 'wife.')

III. i. 40. Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, regina serenissima'; 'So great is our integrity of purpose towards thee, most serene princess.'

III. ii. 64. He is returned in his opinions,' i.e. having sent in advance the opinions he has gathered.

III. ii. 66. Together with all famous colleges'; Rowe reads, 'Gather'd from all the famous colleges.'

III. ii. 96. 'I must snuff it.' Cp. the accompanying representation of a pair of snuffers dating from the year 1538.

III. ii. 172. 'been mine so'; so Folio 1; Folios 2, 3, 4 read, 'been so."

III. ii. 192. that am, have, and will be,' etc.; the reading of the