The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] · William Shakespeare
NOTES: IV, 2
18: _lunes_] Theobald. _lines_ Ff Q3. _vaine_ (Q1 Q2). 33: _street_] F1 Q3. _streets_ F2 F3 F4. 39: Re-enter F.] Enter. F2. 40: SCENE III. Pope. 43: _pistols_] _Pistol_ Jackson conj. 48: _Creep into the kiln-hole_] Given to Mrs Page by Dyce (Malone conj.). 55: Mrs Page] (Q1 Q2) Malone. Mist. Ford. Ff Q3. 57: Mrs Ford] om. F2 F3 F4. 62: _a mischief_] _mischief_ F4. 63, 73, 85, 150, and passim: _Brentford_] _Brainford_ (Q1 Q2) Ff Q3. 66: _thrummed_] _thrum’d_ F1 F2 F3. _thrumb_ F4. 89: _him_] F2 F3 F4. om. F1 Q3. 98: _knight_] F1 Q3. _the knight_ F2 F3 F4. 99: _as lief_] F2 F3 F4. _liefe as_ F1 Q3. 100: SCENE IV. Pope. 102: _villain_] _villains_ Dyce. _Youth in a basket_] _you youth in a basket come out here_ Malone (from Q1 Q2). 103: _ging_] F2 F3 F4. _gin_ F1 Q3 _gang_ Rowe. 104: _shamed_] _ashamed_ F2. 105: _wife_] om. Rowe. 159: _not_] om. F1. 160: SCENE V. Pope. Re-enter ... clothes] Rowe. Enter Fal. Ff. and Mistress Page] Pope. 163: _hag_] F3 F4. _ragge_ F1. _hagge_ Q3. _rag_ F2. 170: _By yea and no_] _By Jeshu_ (Q1 Q2). 171: _’oman_] _’omans_ Q3. 172: _his_] Ff Q3. _her_ (Q1 Q2) Pope. 175: _trail_] F1 Q3 F2 F3. _Tryal_ F4. 188: _fine_] _find_ Q3. 193: _brains_] _brain_ F3 F4. 197: _period_] _right period_ Hanmer. 198: _the jest_] _jest_ Q3. 199: _it, then; shape it:_] _it, then shape it:_ Ff Q3.
_Enter HOST and BARDOLPH._ _Bard._ Sir, the Germans desire to have three of your horses: the duke himself will be to-morrow at court, and they are going to meet him. _Host._ What duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear not of him in the court. Let me speak with the gentlemen: 5 they speak English? _Bard._ Ay, sir; I’ll call them to you. _Host._ They shall have my horses; but I’ll make them pay; I’ll sauce them: they have had my house a week at command; I have turned away my other guests: they must 10 come off; I’ll sauce them. Come. [_Exeunt._ SCENE III.] SCENE VI. Pope. 1: _Germans desire_] Capell. _Germane desires_ Ff Q3. 7: _Ay_] om. F3 F4. 9: _house_] (Q1 Q2) Rowe. _houses_ Ff Q3. 11: _come off_] _compt off_ Theobald (Warburton). _not come off_ Capell.
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