The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9] · William Shakespeare
LINENOTES TO II KING HENRY VI.
_‘King._ Then be it so: this is King Henry’s doom.’ I. 4. At the commencement of this scene Rowe, and Pope in his first edition, inserted the stage direction ‘Flourish’ which belongs to the end of the previous scene. Pope, in his second edition, omitted it altogether, and Theobald restored it to its right place. II. 1. 84. Having recorded up to this point throughout the scene all the cases in which the arrangement of the lines in the Folios is defective, we have thought it unnecessary to do so any more, except where there is any doubt as to what the true arrangement should be. The restoration of the metre is, in almost all instances, due to Pope.
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