The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] · William Shakespeare
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6: _Custalorum_] _Custos_ Farmer conj. 7: _Rato-lorum_] Ff. _Rotulorum_ Q3. 10: _I_] _We_ Steevens (Farmer conj.). 12: _hath_] F1 Q3 F2. _have_ F3 F4. 19: _The luce is_] _The luce_ [To _Slen._ showing him his seal-ring] _is_ Capell. 23: _marring_] F1 Q3. _marrying_ F2 F3 F4. 25: _py’r lady_] _per-lady_ Ff Q3. 26: _skirts_] _shirts_ Q3. 28: _unto_] _upon_ Pope. 30: _compremises_] _compromises_ Pope. 32: _hear_] F1 Q3. _hear of_ F2 F3 F4. 34: _take your_] F1 Q3. _take you_ F2 F3 F4. 38: _and_] _that_ Pope. 40: _goot_] F1 Q3. _good_ F2 F3 F4. 41: _Thomas_] Ff Q3. _George_ Theobald. See note (I). 44: _small_] F1 Q3. om. F2 F3 F4. 45: _orld_] Ff. _world_ Q3. 49: See note (II). 52, 54, 55: Given to Shallow by Capell. 53: _her father_] _his father_ Capell (corrected in MS.). 56: _possibilities_] F1 Q3. possibility F2 F3 F4. 63: _well-willers_] _well-wishers_ Rowe. 65: Enter PAGE.] Edd. Enter Page. Rowe (after line 64). Halliwell (after line 69). 65: SCENE II. Pope. 67: _here_] F1 Q3. _here’s_ F2 F3 F4. 70: _worships_] _worship’s_ Rowe. 75: _thank_] _love_ (Q1 Q2) Steevens (Farmer conj.). 77: _thank_] _love_ Farmer conj. MS. 80: _Cotsall_ F1 Q3.] _Cotsale_ F2 F3 F4. 82-84: _Slen ... dog_] _Shall. You’ll ... confess._ Slen. _That ... not._ Shall. _’Tis ... dog._ Farmer conj.
MS. 98: SCENE III. Pope. 99: _king_] _council_ (Q1 Q2) Warburton. 102: _daughter?_] F1 Q3 F2 F3. _daughter._ (Q1 Q2) F4. 106, 107: _council ... counsel_] _councell ... counsell_ (Q1 Q2). _councell ... councill_ F1 Q3 F2. _council ... counsell_ F3. _council ... councel_ F4. 107, 108: _you if ... you’ll_] _you: if it were known in council, you’ll_ Harness (Johnson conj.). 107: _known_] _not known_ Pope. 114: _Pistol._] _Pistol; they carried me to the tavern and made me drunk, and afterward picked my pocket._ Malone (from Q1 Q2). See note (III). 119-120: _pauca, pauca ... humour_] Evans. _Pauca, pauca._ Nym. _Slice ... humour._ Farmer conj. 126: _three_] _third_ Pope. 127: _Garter_] Q3. _Gater_ Ff. 131: _discreetly_] _discretions_ Pope. 146: _latten_] _laten_ (Q1 Q3). latine Ff Q3. _latten bilbo._] _latten. Bilbo!_ Becket conj. 147: _thy labras here_] _my labras hear_ Johnson conj. 150: _avised_] _advis’d_ F4. 151: _the nuthook’s humour_] _the base humour_ Pope. _bace humors_ (Q1 Q2). 160: _fap_] _sap_ A. A. conj. _vap_ Boys conj. 161: _careires_] _car-eires_ Ff Q3. _careeres_ Capell. 171: [Exit A. P.] Theobald. 175: [Kisses her.] Pope. 179: SCENE IV. Pope. 186: _Michaelmas_] _Martlemas_ Theobald. 188: _this, coz_] _this_ Q3. 192: _that that_] _that_ F3 F4. 209: _mouth_] _mind_ Pope. 210: _carry_] F1 Q3. _marry_ F2 F3 F4. 216: _carry her_] _carry-her_ F1 Q3 F2 F3. _carre-her_ F4. 228: _contempt_] Theobald. _content_ Ff Q3. 230: _fall_] Ff Q3. _faul’_ Hanmer. _fault_ Collier. _fall’_ Singer. _faul_ Dyce. 234: _hanged_] _hang’_ F2 F3 F4. 236: SCENE V. Pope. 249: _beholding_] _beholden_ Pope. 251: _like_] om. F2 F3 F4. 275: _I’ll eat_] _I chuse to eat_ Hanmer.
_Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE._ _Evans._ Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius’ house which is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly, which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer. _Sim._ Well, sir. 5 _Evans._ Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it is a ’oman that altogether’s acquaintance with Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire and require her to solicit your master’s desires to Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will make an end of my dinner; 10 there’s pippins and cheese to come. [_Exeunt._ SCENE II.] SCENE VI. Pope. The same.] Capell. An outer room in Page’s house. Dyce. 3: _dry_] _try_ (Q1 Q2) Dyce. 4: _wringer_] Theobald. _Ringer_ Ff Q3. 11: _cheese_] _seese_ Dyce.
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