or Mr Bulloch puts a full stop at 'labour'd,' and reads 'More than mine own, that arm and hand will be.' Mr Kinnear reads 'that am, have, and will be yours; Though &c.' Mr Spence (N. & Q., 1880) proposes 'that I'm, &c.' Mr Watkiss Lloyd (Athenæum, 30 July, 1881) transposes the words thus: though all the (or i' the) world that are Have and will be should &c.' Mr Joicey puts a semicolon at 'labour'd,' and reads, 'More than my own they are, have, and will be, &c.' referring 'they' to 'hand and heart &c.' in the King's speech. NOTE IX. III. 2. 203. The misreading 'may' for 'have,' which is so familiar to us in this often-quoted passage, was not corrected by Pope or any subsequent editor till Capell. NOTE X. v. 3. Mr Grant White suggests that a new scene should begin here, "although the stage direction in the folio is only 'A Councell Table brought in with Chayres and Stooles, and placed under the State,' &c. But this is plainly the mere result of the absence of scenery of any kind on Shakespeare's stage, and the audience were to imagine that the scene changed from the lobby before the Council Chamber to that apartment itself." We have adopted his suggestion, thinking that the obvious propriety of changing the scene outweighs any inconvenience which might result for purposes of reference. Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson all follow Pope in calling this Scene v. Theobald also supposes a new scene to begin here, although in his edition the scenes are not numbered. Capell, by his stage direction, indicated that the scene presented the Councilchamber and the lobby both at once to the eyes of the spectators. NOTE XI. v. 4. 30-63. It is scarcely worth while to record how Capell cut up these lines of prose into verse. No editor has followed him. Mr Sidney Walker however has made a similar attempt, but is forced to admit that in some changes of reading he has ventured beyond the lawful limits of an emendator.' With the same license, it would be easy to convert an Act of Parliament or a leading article into verse. Mr Walker also has followed Capell, or perhaps has hit independently on the same arrangement, as regards the first part of the scene. The intervening lines from 10 to 29 are printed as verse in the Folio. In these he proposes some trifling changes of arrangement. Mr Watkiss Lloyd (N. & Q., 7th S. Iv. 104) proposes another method of dividing the lines, which involves the omission of the words 'all that stand...penance', and 'he stands...blow us', and the transposition of 'for kindling such combustion in the state' to follow on the head'. v. 5. 1-3. NOTE XII. Pope, with more than usual audacity, makes the lines run smoothly by thus changing them: 'Heav'n, from thy endless goodness, send long life, And ever happy, to the high and mighty Princess of England, fair Elizabeth.' Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson adopt Pope's reading without remark. NOTE XIII. v. 5. 31. Mr Collier mentions that the second Folio has 'Come' in this line, a misprint rectified by his 'old annotator.' In three copies which we have consulted it is distinctly 'Corne.' v. 5. 39-55, 56-62. NOTE XIV. Theobald was the first to suggest that lines 39 to 55 Nor shall this peace... bless heaven,' and lines 56 to 62, 'She shall be...mourn her,' were an interpolation. Cranmer's speech originally, as he supposed, ended at 'not by blood.' Then the King replied: 'Thou speakest wonders. O lord Archbishop, &c.' ADDENDA. 1 HENRY VI. IV. 4. 19 in advantage lingering,] ta'en at vantage, lingering Joicey conj. 2 HENRY VI. IV. 8. 45 Villiago] Vive le roy Orger conj. 3 HENRY VI. I. 1. 268 cost] crest Orger conj. RICHARD III. I. 4. 145 in thy mind] in the wind Joicey conj. HENRY VIII. I. 1. 63 his self-drawing] his self drawing his Bailey conj. I. 1. 222-226 My surveyor...farewell.] Mr Bailey proposes to arrange and read as follows: III. 2. 271 v. 1. 126, My surveyor is false: the o'ergreat cardinal, Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on My life is spann'd already.-My lord, farewell. You] Who Bailey conj., reading line 272 as Theobald. v. 1. 127 with the whole world] om. Seymour conj., reading Your state... enemies as one line. v. 3. 11, 12 capable of our flesh] culpable Oft our flesh Jackson conj. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY W. LEWIS AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
