p. 301. become the forest better than the town, yukes 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 6 me.' p. 302. 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. Fal. It hath cost me well, “ I went to her in white”:- The folic has a 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. it was not Anne, but a post-master's boy." Here the quarto adds, • Eva. Jeshu, M. Slender, cannot you see but marrie boys i Page. O, I am vext at hart : What shal I do?” 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 welldings.” l'hese 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. p. 303. 11 p. 304. END OF VOL. II. |
