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CRITICAL APPARATUS
(“Linenotes”).
Scene I.
28: strait] straight Halliwell.
85: yon] om.
Scene III.
60: were] we are.
Scene IV.
24: and] if.
26: who] hoe.
31: doore] the doore.
Scene V.
5: grant] grant. Halliwell.
15: twice] but twice.
31: kindnes] kindness Halliwell.
61: melancholy?] melancholy. Halliwell.
93: to you] t’ e.
108: Rrooke] Brooke.
Scene VI.
7: mistrisse] mistresse Halliwell.
8: ho-] honesty.
13: A] I Halliwell.
37: let me] I.
stands vpon] that stands on.
52: they could] could they.
58: iealousie] iealous.
72: bodie] booty.
75: a the] ath the.
124: And] If.
Scene VII.
24: me] be.
45: a feasting] feasting.
46: bully] bully. Halliwell.
48: gesse] guests.
patinces] patients.
Scene XI.
[Sc. xi.] add and Bardolfe.
49: euen] om.
80: I thus] thus I
88: at at] at.
Scene XII.
[Sc. xii.] Page] Anne Page.
16: [Quic:] from the Catchword.
69: home] om.
98: Priest] Hugh.
115: By so] So.
120: Come] om.
123: A witch.] For. A witch.
Scene XIV.
10: and Slender] Slender and.
The number 10 refers to the last line of Scene XIII, carried over to the “Enter...” line in Scene XIV. In the original text, the two line 10’s were printed on the same page.
14: ins. he speakes aboue.
Scene XV.
81: bene] om.
Scene XVII.
59: Tapers] Torches.
79: so] om.
93: and] if.
101: ridden] written.
131: that] om. Halliwell.
138: the man] he.
140: Curch] Church Halliwell.
147: that] then Halliwell.
154: I yfaith] I faith.
161: also] om.
Sources
The Quarto editions of The Merry Wives of Windsor are described in the introduction to the play.
The general Preface (e-text 23041) discusses the 17th- and 18th-century editions in detail; the newer (19th-century) editions are simply listed by name. The following editions may appear in the Notes. All inset text is quoted from the Preface.
Folios:
F1 1623; F2 (no date given); F3 1663;
F4 1685.
“The five plays contained in this volume occur in the first Folio in the same order, and ... were there printed for the first time.”
Early editions:
Rowe 1709
Pope 1715
“Pope was the first to indicate the place of each new scene; as, for instance, Tempest, I. 1. ‘On a ship at sea.’ He also subdivided the scenes as given by the Folios and Rowe, making a fresh scene whenever a new character entered—an arrangement followed by Hanmer, Warburton, and Johnson. For convenience of reference to these editions, we have always recorded the commencement of Pope’s scenes.”
Theobald 1733
Hanmer (“Oxford edition”) 1744
Warburton 1747
Johnson 1765
Capell 1768; also Capell’s annotated copy of F2
Steevens 1773
Malone 1790
Reed 1803
Later editions:
Singer, Knight, Cornwall, Collier, Phelps, Halliwell, Dyce, Staunton