Notes.

Prol. I. 9. 'spirits that have dared'; so Staunton; Ff. 1, 2, 3, ‘hath'; F. 4, ‘spirit, that hath.'

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I. ii. 45, 52. Elbe,' restored by Capell; Ff., Elue'; (Holinshed, 'Elbe'; Hall, ' Elve').

I. ii. 61-64. Theobald (Warburton); cp. Montaigne's Essays, III. 9, (vide Florio's translation).

I. ii. 77. 'Lewis the tenth'; the reading of Ff., following Holinshed; Pope, from Hall, reads "ninth.'

I. ii. 94. amply to imbar'; so Ff. (Ff. 1, 2, 'imbarre'); Qq. 1, 2, 'imbace,' Q. 3, 'imbrace'; Rowe, 'make bare'; Theobald (Warburton), 'imbare'; Pope, 'openly imbrace,' etc. Schmidt explains the lines:They strive to exclude you, instead of excluding amply, i.e., without restriction or subterfuge, their own false titles." Perhaps Mr W. A. Wright's explanation is the truer, taking 'imbar' in the sense of 'to bar in,' 'secure':-"The Kings of France, says the Archbishop, whose own right is derived only through the female line, prefer to shelter themselves under the flimsy protection of an appeal to the Salic law, which would exclude Henry's claim, instead of fully securing and defending their own titles by maintaining that though, like Henry's, derived through the female line, their claim was stronger than his."

I. ii. 98. in the Book of Numbers'; cp. Numbers xxvii. 1-11. I. ii. 99. 'man'; the reading of Ff.; Qq., ' sonne.'

I. ii. 110. Forage in'; Ff., ' Forrage in'; Q. 1, ' Foraging'; Q. 3, 'Forraging the.'

I. ii. 125. Your grace hath cause and means.' Hanmer reads "Your race hath had cause, means.' Various readings have been suggested, but there seems to be no difficulty whatever in undertanding the text as it stands.

I. ii. 131. blood'; so Ff. 3, 4; F. 1, ' Bloods'; F. 2, ' Blouds.' I. ii. 150. with ample and brim fulness'; probably 'brim' is here adjectival; Pope reads 'brimfulness'; but the accent favours the present reading.

I. ii. 154. 'the ill-neighbourhood'; Boswell, from Qq., reads 'the bruit thereof.'

I. ii. 163. her chronicle'; Capell, Johnson conj.; Ff. read, 'their C.'; Qq., 'your Chronicles'; Rowe, his Chronicle.'

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I. ii. 173. 'tear'; so Rowe, ed. 2; Ff., 'tame'; Qq. 'spoil'; Theobald, 'taint.'

I. ii. 180-183. Theobald first compared these lines with Cicero, De Republica, ii. 42, and thought that Shakespeare had perhaps borrowed from Cicero.

I. ii. 187-203. Lyly, in his Euphues (Arber's Reprint, pp. 262-4), has a similar description of the common-wealth of the bees: its ultimate source is probably Pliny's Natural History, Book xi. (n.b., Holland's translation did not appear till 1601).

I. ii. 197.majesty'; so Rowe from Qq.; Ff., Maiesties.'

I. ii. 208. Come' so Ff.; Capell, from Qq., 'fly'; 'as many ways meet in one town'; Capell, from Qq., reads 'As many seuerall wayes meete in one towne'; Dyce, Lettsom conj. As many several streets, etc.

I. ii. 209. meet in one salt sea'; Capell, from Qq., reads 'run in one self sea'; Vaughan conj. 'run in one salt sea.'

I. ii. 212. ' End'; Pope's emendation from Qq.; Ff., ' And.' I. ii. 255. This tun of treasure'; probably suggested by the corresponding words in The Famous Victories.

I. ii. 263. shall strike his father's crown into the hazard'; ' hazard' used technically, "the hazard in a tennis-court"; glosses, 'grille de tripot' in old French dictionaries.

Prol. II. Pope transferred the Prologue to the end of the first

scene.

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Prol. II. 32. The abuse of distance; force a play:' so Ff.; Pope, "while we force a play'; Warburton conj.' while we farce a play'; etc. 6 to force a play' is interpreted by Steevens to mean 'to produce a play by compressing many circumstances into a narrow compass.' Various emendations have been proposed, but in spite of the imperfection of the line as it stands, no suggestions seem to improve upon it. Perhaps, after all, the line is correct as it stands, with a pause for a syllable at the cæsura, and with a vocalic r in 'force,' making the word dissyllabic; cp. fierce,'II. iv. 99. Prol. II. 41. But, till the king come forth,' etc, i.e. until the King come forth we shall not shift our scene unto Southampton.' II. i. 6. there shall be smiles'; Hanmer conj., Warburton, 'there shall be (smiles)'; Farmer, Collier, 2 ed., 'smites' (i.e. blows). II. i, 26. 'mare'; restored by Theobald from Qq.; Ff. read name'; Hanmer, 'dame'; Collier MS., ‘jade.'

II. i. 29. How now, mine host Pistol!' Qq., 'How do you my Hoste ?' giving the words to Nym.

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II. i. 39. O well a day, Lady, if he be not drawn now' ; ' drawn,' Theobald's emendation; Ff., hewne'; Malone from Q. 1, '0 Lord! here's corporal Nym's

II. i. 44. Iceland dog!'; Steevens, Johnson conj.; Ff. read ‘Island dog'; Qq., Iseland.' There are several allusions to "these