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Chapter 254: FOOTNOTES:
By William Shakespeare
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This volume gathers a sequence of history plays that dramatize struggles over kingship, succession, and national identity in late medieval England. Rulers confront rebellions, papal and foreign pressure, and challenges to legitimacy, while a young prince evolves from license to wartime command. Scenes range from courtly intrigue and parliamentary deposition to battlefield councils and siege drama, intermixing solemn meditation on power and right with earthy comic relief provided by a boisterous companion. Recurring themes include the burdens of rule, honor versus expediency, the manipulation of law and ceremony, and the formation of leadership through conflict.

Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof
 Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.
 We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,[4752]
 Since God so graciously hath brought to light185
 This dangerous treason lurking in our way[4753]
 To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now[4754]
 But every rub is smoothed on our way.[4755]
 Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver
 Our puissance into the hand of God,190
 Putting it straight in expedition.
 Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:[4756]
 No king of England, if not king of France, [Exeunt.

Scene III. London. Before a Tavern.[4757]

Enter Pistol, Hostess, Nym, Bardolph, and Boy.

Host. Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee[4758]
 to Staines.
Pist. No; for my manly heart doth yearn.[4759][4760]
 Bardolph, be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins:[4759]
 Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,[4759][4761][4762]5
 And we must yearn therefore.[4759][4760][4762]
Bard. Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is,
 either in heaven or in hell![4763]
Host. Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Arthur's bosom,[4764]
 if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made a[4765]10
 finer end and went away an it had been any christom[4765][4766]
 child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at[4767][4768]
 the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with[4768][4769]
 the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his[4770]
 fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way; for his nose[4771]15
 was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields.[4772]
 'How now, Sir John!' quoth I: 'what, man! be o' good[4773]
 cheer.' So a' cried out 'God, God, God!' three or four
 times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not
 think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself20
 with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more
 clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt
 them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to[4774]
 his knees, and they were as cold as any stone, and so[4775]
 upward and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.[4776]25
Nym. They say he cried out of sack.[4777]
Host. Ay, that a' did.
Bard. And of women.[4778]
Host. Nay, that a' did not.
Boy. Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils[4779]30
 incarnate.
Host. A' could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour[4780]
 he never liked.
Boy. A' said once, the devil would have him about[4781]
 women.35
Host. A' did in some sort, indeed, handle women; but
 then he was rheumatic, and talked of the whore of Babylon.
Boy. Do you not remember, a' saw a flea stick upon
 Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was a black soul burning in
 hell-fire?[4782]40
Bard. Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire:
 that's all the riches I got in his service.
Nym. Shall we shog? the king will be gone from
 Southampton.
Pist. Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips.[4783]45
 Look to my chattels and my movables:[4783]
 Let senses rule; the word is 'Pitch and Pay:'[4783][4784]
 Trust none;[4783]
 For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,[4783]
 And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck:[4783]50
 Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor.[4783][4785]
 Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,[4783][4786]
 Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,[4783]
 To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck![4783]
Boy. And that's but unwholesome food, they say.[4787]55
Pist. Touch her soft mouth, and march.
Bard. Farewell, hostess. [Kissing her.[4788]
Nym. I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, adieu.
Pist. Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.
Host. Farewell; adieu. [Exeunt.60

Scene IV. France. The King's Palace.

Flourish. Enter the French King, the Dauphin, the Dukes of Berri and Bretagne, the Constable, and others.[4789]

Fr. King. Thus comes the English with full power upon us;[4790]
 And more than carefully it us concerns[4791]
 To answer royally in our defences.
 Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne,
 Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,[4792]5
 And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,
 To line and new repair our towns of war
 With men of courage and with means defendant;
 For England his approaches makes as fierce
 As waters to the sucking of a gulf.10
 It fits us then to be as provident
 As fear may teach us out of late examples
 Left by the fatal and neglected English[4793]
 Upon our fields.
Dau. My most redoubted father,
 It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe;15
 For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,
 Though war nor no known quarrel were in question,
 But that defences, musters, preparations,
 Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected,
 As were a war in expectation.20
 Therefore, I say 'tis meet we all go forth
 To view the sick and feeble parts of France:
 And let us do it with no show of fear;[4794]
 No, with no more than if we heard that England
 Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:25
 For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,
 Her sceptre so fantastically borne
 By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,[4795]
 That fear attends her not.
Con. O peace, Prince Dauphin!
 You are too much mistaken in this king:30
 Question your grace the late ambassadors,
 With what great state he heard their embassy,
 How well supplied with noble counsellors,
 How modest in exception, and withal
 How terrible in constant resolution,35
 And you shall find his vanities forespent
 Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
 Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
 As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
 That shall first spring and be most delicate.40
Dau. Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable;
 But though we think it so, it is no matter:[4796]
 In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh[4797]
 The enemy more mighty than he seems:
 So the proportions of defence are fill'd;45
 Which of a weak and niggardly projection[4798]
 Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting
 A little cloth.
Fr. King. Think we King Harry strong;
 And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.
 The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;50
 And he is bred out of that bloody strain
 That haunted us in our familiar paths:[4799]
 Witness our too much memorable shame
 When Cressy battle fatally was struck,
 And all our princes captived by the hand55
 Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;
 Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,[4800]
 Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,[4801]
 Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him,[4802]
 Mangle the work of nature and deface60
 The patterns that by God and by French fathers
 Had twenty years been made. This is a stem
 Of that victorious stock; and let us fear
 The native mightiness and fate of him.[4803]

Enter a Messenger.

Mess. Ambassadors from Harry King of England[4804]65
 Do crave admittance to your majesty.
Fr. King. We'll give them present audience. Go, and bring them.

[Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords.[4805]

You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.
Dau. Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs
 Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten70
 Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,[4806]
 Take up the English short, and let them know[4807]
 Of what a monarchy you are the head:
 Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
 As self-neglecting.

Re-enter Lords, with Exeter and train.

Fr. King. From our brother England?[4808]75
Exe. From him; and thus he greets your majesty.
 He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,
 That you divest yourself, and lay apart
 The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven,
 By law of nature and of nations, 'long[4809]80
 To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown
 And all wide-stretched honours that pertain
 By custom and the ordinance of times
 Unto the crown of France. That you may know
 'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,85
 Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,
 Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,
 He sends you this most memorable line,[4810]
 In every branch truly demonstrative;[4811]
 Willing you overlook this pedigree:[4812]90
 And when you find him evenly derived
 From his most famed of famous ancestors,
 Edward the third, he bids you then resign
 Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
 From him the native and true challenger.95
Fr. King. Or else what follows?
Exe. Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown
 Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
 Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,[4813]
 In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,100
 That, if requiring fail, he will compel;[4814]
 And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,[4815]
 Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy
 On the poor souls for whom this hungry war
 Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head[4816]105
 Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries,[4817][4818]
 The dead men's blood, the pining maidens' groans,[4818][4819]
 For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers,
 That shall be swallow'd in this controversy.
 This is his claim, his threatening and my message;110
 Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
 To whom expressly I bring greeting too.[4820]
Fr. King. For us, we will consider of this further:
 To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
 Back to our brother England.[4821]
Dau. For the Dauphin,115
 I stand here for him: what to him from England?
Exe. Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
 And any thing that may not misbecome
 The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
 Thus says my king; an if your father's highness[4822]120
 Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
 Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
 He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,[4823]
 That caves and womby vaultages of France
 Shall chide your trespass and return your mock[4824]125
 In second accent of his ordnance.[4825]
Dau. Say, if my father render fair return,[4826]
 It is against my will; for I desire
 Nothing but odds with England: to that end,[4827]
 As matching to his youth and vanity,[4827]130
 I did present him with the Paris balls.[4828]
Exe. He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,[4829]
 Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe:
 And, be assured, you'll find a difference,
 As we his subjects have in wonder found,135
 Between the promise of his greener days
 And these he masters now: now he weighs time[4830]
 Even to the utmost grain: that you shall read[4831]
 In your own losses, if he stay in France.[4832]
Fr. King. To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.[4833]140
Exe. Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king
 Come here himself to question our delay;
 For he is footed in this land already.
Fr. King. You shall be soon dispatch'd with fair conditions:
 A night is but small breath and little pause[4834]145
 To answer matters of this consequence. [Flourish. Exeunt.[4835]

FOOTNOTES:

[4644] Act II. Prologue.] om. Ff. Act II. Scene I. Johnson.

[4645] Pope places the Chorus after Act II. Scene I.

[4646] thrive] strive Collier (Collier MS.).

[4647] see thy fault! France ... out A nest] Capell. see, thy fault France ... out, A nest Ff.

[4648] he] she Hanmer.

[4649] And by ... Southampton] Johnson proposed to arrange these lines in the following order: 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 30, 31, 32.

[4650] France, and in Southampton.] France; and in Southampton. F1 F2 F3. France; and in Southampton, F4. France. Then in Southampton Pope. France, e'en in Southampton Capell.

[4651] Linger ... play] See note (II).

and we'll ... force] and you'll ... for we'll force Lloyd conj.

[4652] we'll] F3 F4. wee'l F1 F2. well Pope.

[4653] distance; force] Ff. distance, while we force Pope. distance, while we farce Warburton conj. distance, and so force Collier (Collier MS.). distance; foresee Staunton conj.

[4654] The ... agreed;] This line should follow line 27, Keightley conj.

[4655] But, till ... come] But when ... comes Hammer.

But ... not] Not ... but Malone conj.

not] but Roderick conj. But, ere ... come Keightley conj.

[4656] Scene I.] Hanmer. Act I. Scene IV. Pope.

London....] Capell. Before Quickly's house in East-cheap. Theobald.

[4657] be smiles] be—[Smiles.] Hanmer (Warburton). be smites Collier (Farmer conj.). similes Jackson conj.

[4658] an end] Ff. the humour of it (Qq) Steevens.

[4659] be all ... to] all go ... to or all be ... in Johnson conj.

let it] Rowe. let't F1 F2 F3. let's F4.

[4660] do] die Mason conj.

rendezvous] F4. rendevous F1 F2 F3.

[4661] throats] thoughts Jackson conj.

[4662] mare] (Qq) Theobald. name Ff. dame Hanmer. jade Collier MS.

[4663] Hostess.] Quickly. Ff. Hostes Quickly his wife. (Qq).

[4664] tike] tick Malone conj.

[4665] As in (Qq) Johnson. As prose in Ff.

[4666] [Nym ... draw.] Nym draws his sword. Malone. Nym, and Pistol, eye one another and draw. Capell. om. Ff.

[4667] O ... drawn now!] Hanmer. O ... drawn! Now Theobald. O ... hewne now, Ff (hewn F3 F4). O ... if he be not hewing now! Steevens conj. O ... Lord here's Corporal Nym’s— Malone (from Q1). O ... here. Now Knight. O Lord here's Corporal Nym's—O well-a day ... hewn now! Halliwell.

Lady] om. Malone conj.

[4668] Bard. Good lieutenant] Ff. Bar. Good ancient Capell. Good lieutenant Bardolph Malone (continuing the speech to Host.).

[4669] Pish!] Push (Qq).

[4670] Iceland] Steevens (Johnson conj.). Island Ff. Iseland (Qq), once only.

[4671] thy valour] the valour of a man (Qq) Capell.

[4672] [sheathing his sword. Malone. off] off now Keightley conj.

[4673] 'Solus’ ... follow] Arranged as by Pope. As prose in Ff.

[4674] mervailous] F1 F2. marvelleus F3 F4.

[4675] nasty] Ff. mesfull (Qq).

[4676] take] talke (Qq). talk Capell.

[4677] doting] groaning (Qq) Pope.

[4678] [Pistol and Nym draw. Malone.

[4679] [Draws.] Malone.

[4680] Give ... tall] As in Pope. As prose in Ff.

[4681] most] more Pope.

[4682] Couple a] Ff. Couple (Qq). Coupe a Rowe (ed. 2). Coupe le Capell. Coupe la Dyce.

[4683] As prose in Ff. As verse in (Qq) and Pope.

[4684] thee defy] (Qq) Capell. defe thee Ff.

[4685] Go to] Pope. to go to Ff. om. (Qq) Capell. so, go to Collier conj.

[4686] you,] Hanmer. your Ff.

[4687] face] nose (Qq) Pope.

[4688] [Exeunt ...] Capell. Exit. Ff.

[4689] [They draw.] (Qq). Draw. Ff.

[4690] an ... an] & ... and Ff.

[4691] Nym. I shall ... betting?] (Qq) Capell. Omitted in Ff.

[4692] Arranged as by Pope. As prose in Ff.

[4693] combine, and] combind our Q3.

[4694] that's] that F1.

of't] Ff. of it (Qq) Capell.

Re-enter ...] Enter ... Ff.

[4695] came] (Qq) F2 F3 F4. come F1.

[4696] Ah] Pope. A Ff.

[4697] Arranged as by Capell. As prose in Ff.

[4698] lambkins we] Malone. lambkins, we Ff.

[4699] Scene II.] Pope. Scene III. Johnson. om. Ff.

Southampton.] Pope.

A council-chamber.] Malone. A Hall of council. Capell.

[4700] Exe. Nay ... treachery.] Ff. Glost. I ... trechery. Exe. O the Lord of Masham (Qq).

[4701] dull'd] F1 F2. lull'd F3 F4. dol'd Steevens conj.

dull'd and cloy'd] cloy'd and grac'd (Qq) Steevens.

[4702] Trumpets sound.] Sound Trumpets. Ff.

King Henry] the King, Ff.

and Attendants] Theobald. om. Ff.

[4703] kind] om. (Qq) Pope.

[4704] head] aid Warburton.

[4705] consent] concent Malone.

[4706] Nor] Ff. And Pope.

[4707] monarch] a monarch F3 F4.

[4708] I think] om. Pope.

[4709] Grey.] Gray. F4. Kni. F1 F2 F3.

True: those] Even those (Qq) Capell.

[4710] do serve] observe Pope.

[4711] the weight] Ff. their cause (Qq). their weight Anon. conj.

[4712] his] our Collier (Collier MS.).

[4713] merciful] merciful, my lord (Collier MS.)

[4714] Sir, You] Dyce. Sir, you Ff. You (Qq) Pope.

[4715] yet] om. Pope.

[4716] And] om. Pope.

[4717] late] state Collier (Collier MS.). lord Keightley conj.

[4718] I] Ff. me (Qq) Capell.

royal] om. Pope.

[4719] Lord] F1 F4. Lords F2 F3.

[4720] hath] (Qq) F4. have F1 F2 F3.

[4721] do confess] confess Pope.

[4722] into] upon (Qq) Pope.

[4723] you] them (Qq) Capell.

[4724] of] om. Pope.

[4725] him] om. F1.

[4726] stands] F1. stand F2 F3 F4.

[4727] and white] Ff. from white (Qq) Capell.

[4728] grossly] closely Hanmer.

a natural] an naturall F1. unnatural Nicholson conj.

cause] course Collier MS.

[4729] whoop] Theobald. hoope F1 F2. hoop F3 F4.

[4730] and on] F1. and no F2 F3 F4.

[4731] thee] these Warburton.

[4732] Hath] H'ath Capell.

[4733] All] Hanmer. And Ff. For Malone conj.]

by treasons] Ff. by-treasons Rowe. to treasons Mason conj.

[4734] being] om. Keightley conj.

[4735] temper'd] tempted Johnson conj.

[4736] lion gait] Lyon-gate Ff.

[4737] seem] or seem Pope.

[4738] not] nor Rowe (ed. 2).

[4739] complement] compliment Theobald.

[4740] eye without the ear] ear but with the eye Theobald (Warburton).

[4741] To mark the ... With] Malone. To mark the ... the best endu'd With Theobald. To make thee full fraught man, and best indued With Ff. To make the full-fraught man, the best, endu'd With Pope. To mark the ... the best endow'd Capell conj. To mock ... and best indued With Malone conj. (withdrawn). To mark the full fraught man and least inclined With Mitford conj. See note (III).

[4742] I] and I F4.

[4743] Henry] (Qq) Theobald. Thomas Ff.

[4744] knight, of] Collier. knight of (Qq) Ff.

[4745] seduce] seduce me Keightley conj.

[4746] I] om. F1.

will rejoice] will rejoice for Rowe. rejoice for Pope. will rejoice at Capell conj.

[4747] proclaim'd] om. Pope.

[4748] into] unto Capell.

[4749] you have] (Qq) Knight. you three F2 F3 F4. you F1. See note (IV).

[4750] Get you] Go Pope.

[4751] [Exeunt ...] Exeunt. F2 F3 F4. Exit. Ff.

[4752] war,] Ff. war; Capell.

[4753] way] F3 F4. way, F1. way. F2. path Anon. conj.

[4754] beginnings. We] F1. beginning. We F2 F3 F4. beginnings, we Capell.

We doubt not now] Now we doubt not Pope.

[4755] on] in F4.

[4756] sea;] Theobald. sea, Ff. sea Rowe.

[4757] Scene III.] Pope. Scene IV. Johnson. om. Ff.

London ... Tavern.] Capell. London. Pope. Quickly's house in Eastcheap. Theobald.

[4758] honey-sweet] Theobald. honey sweet F1 F2. honey, sweet F3 F4.

[4759] No; ...therefore] As verse by Pope. As prose in Ff.

[4760] yearn] erne F1 F2. yern F3 F4.

[4761] Boy] om. Rann (Capell conj.).

[4762] Capell ends the lines up ... therefore.

[4763] either ...hell] om. Farmer conj. MS.

[4764] he's ... hell] om. Farmer conj. MS.

[4765] a finer] F1 F2. finer F3 F4. a fine Capell.

[4766] an it] Pope. and it Ff. as it (Qq).

christom] F4. christome F1 F2 F3. crysombd (Q1 Q3). chrisombd (Q2). chrisom Johnson. chryssom' Capell. chrisom'd Steevens (1778).

[4767] even just] ev'n just F1 F2. just F3 F4.

[4768] even at the] ev'n at the Ff. e'en at Capell.

[4769] o'] of Capell.

[4770] play with] Ff. talk of (Qq). play with the Anon. conj.

[4771] ends] (Qq) Capell. end Ff.

[4772] and a' babbled of green fields.] Theobald. Omitted in (Qq). and a Table of greene fields. F1 F2. and a Table of green fields. F3. and a Table of green Fields. F4. Omitted by Pope. and a' talked of green fields. Anon. MS. conj. apud Theobald. and a' fabled of green fields. W. N. conj. apud Long MS. in a table of green fields. Malone conj. upon a table of green fells. Smith conj. on a table of green frieze. Collier MS. or as stubble on shorn fields. Anon. (Fras. Mag.) conj. See note (V).

[4773] be o'good] be a good Ff. be of good Theobald.

[4774] cold as any] F1 F2. cold as a F3 F4.

[4775] knees, and ... stone, and so] (Qq) Capell. knees, and so Ff.

[4776] upward and upward] (Qq) F3 F4. up-peer'd and upward F1. upwar'd and upward F2. up'ard and up'ard Grant White.

[4777] of] Ff. on (Qq).

[4778] Bard.] Ff. Boy. (Qq) Warburton.

[4779] devils] Deules F1.

[4780] Host.] Woman. Ff.

[4781] devil] Capell. Deule Ff.

[4782] hell-fire] (Q1 Q2) Capell. hell (Q3) Ff.

[4783] Arranged as by Capell. As verse, first by Pope. As prose in Ff.

[4784] senses rule] sense us rule Johnson conj. sentences rule Mason conj.

word] (Q1 Q3) Rowe (ed. 2). world (Q2) Ff.

Pitch] Pinch Johnson conj.

[4785] Caveto] Ff. cophetua (Qq).

[4786] Yoke-fellows] Yoke-yoke-fellows Pope.

[4787] that's] that is Hanmer.

[4788] [Kissing her.] Capell.

[4789] Scene IV.] Pope. Scene V. Johnson. om. Ff.

France.] Pope. The ... Palace. Theobald.

Flourish.] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

Enter ...] Enter King of France, Bourbon, Dolphin, and others. (Qq). Enter the French King, the Dolphin, the Dukes of Berry and Britaine. Ff.

... Dauphin ...] ... Dauphin, the Duke of Burgundy ... Rowe.

[4790] comes] Ff. come Rowe. See note (VI).

[4791] carefully] carelessly Hanmer (Warburton).

[4792] Orleans] Rowe. Orleance Ff.

[4793] fatal and] fatally Hanmer.

[4794] And] But (Qq).

[4795] shallow, humorous] shallow-humorous S. Walker conj.

[4796] think it] think not Roderick conj.

[4797] cases] F1. causes F2 F3 F4.

[4798] Which of] While oft Malone conj. Which, oft Rann. Of which Knight. Which if Staunton conj.

projection] protection Jackson conj.

[4799] haunted] hunted Warburton.

[4800] Whiles] While Rowe (ed. 2).

mountain] Mountaine F1 F2. Mountain F3 F4. mounting Theobald. monarch Coleridge conj. mighty Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. 1845).

[4801] Up ...sun] Inclosed in brackets, as spurious, by Warburton.

[4802] heroical] heroick Rowe.

[4803] fate] force Hanmer.

[4804] Harry] Henry Steevens.

[4805] [Exeunt ...] Capell. om. Ff.

[4806] far] fear'd Capell conj.

[4807] the English] this English (Qq). these English Capell conj.

[4808] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter Exeter. Ff.

Scene V. Pope. Scene VI. Johnson. om. Ff.

brother England] (Q1 Q2) Pope. brother of England (Q3) Ff.

[4809] 'long] Pope, longs Ff.

[4810] this ... line] Ff. these ... lines (Qq).

[4811] [Gives the French King a Paper. Theobald.

[4812] this] his Rowe.

[4813] Therefore in fierce] (Qq) Ff. And therefore in fierce Rowe. Therefore in fiercest Mitford conj. Therefore in fiery S. Walker conj.

[4814] will] may Pope.

[4815] And bids] He bids Rowe.

[4816] and on] upon Pope.

[4817] Turning] Turns he (Qq) Capell.

[4818] the widows' tears ... groans] the dead men's blood, the widows' tears The orphans' cries, the pining maidens' groans Johnson conj.

[4819] pining] (Qq) Pope. privy Ff. primy Theobald conj. 'prived Warburton conj.

[4820] greeting too] (Qq) F2 F3 F4. greeting to F1.

[4821] England] (Q1 Q2) Pope. of England (Q3) Ff.

[4822] an if] Dyce (S. Walker conj.). and if Ff.

[4823] hot] loud (Qq) Capell.

of it] for it Pope.

[4824] chide] hide Theobald.

[4825] of] Ff. to Pope.

ordnance] ordenance (Qq). ordinance Ff.

[4826] render] tender F4.

return] reply (Qq) Pope.

[4827] Arranged as by Rowe. Line 129 ends at England in Ff.

[4828] the] those Pope.

[4829] Louvre] Pope. Louer (Qq) F1. Loover F2. Lover F3. Louver F4.

[4830] masters] musters (Qq).

[4831] that] which (Qq) Pope.

[4832] he] we (Q2 Q3).

[4833] shall you] you shall Rowe (ed. 2).

[4834] breath] F4. breathe F1 F2 F3.

[4835] [Flourish.] Ff, after line 140. Transferred by Dyce.