p. 301. p. 302. become the forest better than the town, yokes do not: they are in place in streets and roads. A compositor's putting a space on the wrong side of a y has made all this trouble. "Ignorance itself is a plummet over me : That is, 'points out my deviations from rectitude:' in allusion to the censures of him "who makes fritters of English." Explanation would be superfluous, had not Johnson proposed 'plume,' and Farmer planet,' and others expounded the passage as meaning Ignorance weighs me down, oppresses me.' 6 to repay that money will be a biting affliction" :Here the quarto adds, "Mrs. Ford. Nay, husband, let that go to make amends; Forgiue that sum, and so weele all be friends. Ford. Well, here is my hand, all's forgiuen at last. I haue bene well pinched and washed." "I went to her in white":- The folic has "green," and in Mrs. Page's two following speeches, "white." Pope made the necessary change. The colors named in the quarto for Anne's dress are red and white: the change and the confusion in the folio add to the evidence that the play was revised and in part rewritten. 66— it was not Anne, but a post-master's boy." Here the quarto adds, "Eva. Jeshu, M. Slender, cannot you see but marrie boys? Page. O, I am vext at hart: What shal I do?" 66 66 or unduteous guile":- The original has " title." Mr. Collier's folio of 1632 gives the word in the text. must be embraced": - The quarto adds, "Eva. I will also dance and eat plums at your weddings." -- These passages, and others from the quarto, rejected by the Poet, are given in these Notes only because they had for a long time a place in the received text. END OF VOL. II. |