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P. 76. (152)

"Well, well, go to; we'll have no bastards live;"

The folio has "Well go too, we'll haue," &c.-Capell repeated the "well;" and the same addition is proposed by Walker, who remarks that, with the usual modern reading (that of the second folio),

"Well, go to; we will have no bastards live," "the verse is out of joint." Crit. Exam. &c. vol. ii. p. 146.

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The folio has "matter."-Corrected in the second folio.

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The folio has "as shadow."-Corrected in the fourth folio. (Compare note on King John.

P. 79. (156)

"Nor be rebellious to the crown of England,

Thou, nor thy nobles, to the crown of England."

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Walker (Crit. Exam. &c. vol. i. p. 277) "suspects" that there is an error here, in the repetition.

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The folio has " Yes my lord."-The editor of the second folio printed, for the metre's sake, "Yes my good lord;" which Mr. Collier says "we can have no hesitation in accepting," because Suffolk has used the words " my good lord" a little before: but there he is speaking to the King; here, to Gloster.

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The second folio omits "a." But "warrant" is usually a monosyllable in our early poets: see Walker's Shakespeare's Versification, &c. p. 65, where the following line is cited from The Third Part of King Henry VI. act iii. sc. 2; "Ay, widow? then I'll warrant you all your lands."

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P. 81. (161)

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"Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss," The editor of the second folio printed - bringeth forth bliss," not being aware that "contrary" is here a quadrisyllable: see Walker's Shakespeare's Versification, &c. p. 55.

P. 81. (162)

"Will answer our hope in issue of a king;"

Here Pope omitted "Will."-"Dele 'our' with Steevens." W. N. LETTSOM.

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"Across,' I suspect." Walker's Crit. Exam. &c. vol. iii. p. 154.

THE SECOND PART OF

KING HENRY THE SIXTH.

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THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY VI.

FIRST printed in the folio of 1623.—An alteration by Shakespeare of a drama entitled The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey: And the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke, and the Tragicall end of the proud Cardinall of Winchester, with the notable Rebellion of Iacke Cade: And the Duke of Yorkes first claime vnto the Crowne,-originally printed in 1594, 4to (reprinted for the Shakespeare Society in 1843).

See Introduction to The First Part of King Henry VI. p. 3 of this volume.

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