1. i. 211. • Abergavenny'; Ff., ' Aburgany,' the usual pronunciation of the name.

1. i. 217. · Montacute'; Ff. read · Mountacute'; Rowe reads • Montague.'

I. i. 219. chancellor'; Theobald's correction; Ff. 1, 2 read * Councellour.'

I. i. 221. • Nicholas Hopkins'; Theobald's correction (from Holinshed) of Ff., Michaell' (probably due to printer's confusion of . Nich' with Mich').

1. ii. 67. • business '; Warburton's emendation of Ff., baseness.'

I. ii. 147. • Henton'; i.e. Nicholas Hopkins, “a monk of an house of the Chartreux Order beside Bristow, called Henton" (Holinshed); there is no need to emend the text.

I. ii, 164. confession's seal'; Theobald's emendation (following Holinshed) of Ff. commissions.'

I. ii. 170. .To gain'; the reading of F.4; Ff. 1, 2, 3 read .To'; Collier MS. reads "To get'; Grant White, "To win.'

I. ii. 179. "for him’; Capell's emendation of . For this' of the Ff.; Collier MS. reads. From this '; &c.

I. ii. 190. Bulmer'; Ff. read • Blumer'; Pope, Blomer.'

I. iii. 13. Or springhalt'; Verplank's (Collier conj.) emendation of Ff., ' A springhalt’; Pope, ' And springhalt.'

1. iii. 34. "wear'; the reading of Ff. 2, 3, 4; F. i reads' wee'; Anon conj. Souii'

1. iii. 59. 'has wherewithal'; Ff., 'ha's,' probably an error for •'has,' i.e. '(he) has.'

I. iv, 6. ' As, first, good compary'; 80 Ff. 1, 2, 3 ; F. 4 reads · As, first good company'; Theobald, 'as, first-good company'; Halliwell, . as far as good company,' &c.

II. i. 29. "was either pitied in him or forgotten'; i.e. “either produced no effect, or only ineffectual pity" (Malone).

II. i. 54. Sir William Sands '; Theobald's emendation (from
Holinshed) of F. I, “Sir Walter Sands'; Ff. 2, 3, 4, Walter
Sands.'

II. i. 86. mark'; Warburton's emendation of Ff., 'make.'
II. i. 105. • I now seal it,' i.e. my truth,—with blood.

II. ii. 85. (one have-at-him'; F. 1, one; haue at him’; Ff. 2, 3, 4, one heave at him'; Knight, one ;-have at him.'

II. ii. 94. • Have their free voices,' i.e. have liberty to express their opinions freely'; (Grant White, Gave' for Have').

II. iii. 14. that quarrel, fortune, do'; F. i reads that quarrell. Fortune, do'; Collier MS., ó that cruel fortune do'; Keightley, that quarrel, by fortune, do'; Lettsom conj. that fortunes quarrel do'; Hanmer, 'that quarr'ler, fortune do'; &c.

II. iii. 46. "little England'; Steevens pointed out that Pembroke. shire was known as little England'; and as Anne Bullen was about to be made Marchioness of Pembroke, there may be a special point in the phrase.

II. iii. 92. “the mud in Egypt,'i.e. the land fertilized by the Nile's overflow.'

II. iv. 62. "That longer you desire the court,' i.e. desire the court to delay its proceedings; F. 4, defer'; Keightley conj. "court delay'd.'

II. iv. 172. "The Bishop of Bayonne’; strictly it should be the
Bishop of Tarbes,' but the mistake was Holinshed's.

II. iv. 174. "The Duke of Orleans,' was the second son of
Francis I., King of France.
II. iv. 182. "the bosom of my conscience'; Holinshed's use of secret

bottom of my conscience justified Theobald's emendation of bosom to bottom.'

II. iv. 199. 'throe'; Pope's emendation of Ff., throw.'
II. iv. 204. " yet not,' i.e. not yet.
II. iv. 225. ' drive'; Pope's emendation of Ff., • drives.'

JII. i. 38. and that way I am wife in'; s.c. concerning my conduct as a wife.' (Rowe proposed wise' for 'wife').

III. i. 40. "Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, regina serenissima'; "So great is our integrity of purpose towards thee, most serene princess.'

III. ii. 64. . He is returned in his opinions,' i.e. having sent in advance the opinions he has gathered.

III. ii. 66. •Together with all famous colleges ’; Rowe reads, * Gather'd from all the famous colleges.'

III ii. 172. ' been mine so'; so F. 1; Ff. 2, 3, 4 read been so.'

Ill. ii. 192. that am, have, and will be,' &c.; the reading of the Folios of these lines, which have taxed the ingenuity of scholars; some two-dozen various emendations are recorded in the Cambridge Shakespeare, but probably the text as we have it represents the author's words; the meaning of the passage is clear, and the difficulty is due to the change in construction. Instead of that am, have, and will be, it has been proposed to read, that am your slave, and will be'; this would get rid of the awkward have'=' have been,' but probably the line is correct as it stands.

III ii. 272. tkat . . . aare mate'; i.e. I that . . . dare mate.

III. ii. 282. · And dare us with his cap like larks'; “One of the methods of daring larks was by small mirrors fastened on scarlet cloth, which engaged the attention of these birds while the fowler drew his net over them " (Steevens).

III. ii. 321. Cassado'; so Ff., following Hall and Holinshed; Rowe reads the correct form, · Cassalis.'

III. ii. 343. Chattels'; Theobald's emendation of Ff., Castles.'

IV. ii. 58-59. •Those twins of learning. . . . Ipswich and Oxford'; Wolsey's College, Ipswich, of which the gateway still remains, was founded by Wolsey. Christ Church College, Oxford, was founded by Wolsey: it was first called Cardinal College. .

IV. ii. 60. "the good that did it'; Pope reads, 'the good he did it'; Collier MS.,' the good man did it'; Staunton, the good that reard it,' &c. The words, if not corrupt, must mean the good man (or the goodness) that caused it, i.e. founded it.'

V. i. 34. “is'; Theobald, . he's.'
V. i. 106. “you a brother of us,' i.e. being a Privy Councillor.

V. iii. 11-12. frail and capable of our flesh'; Keightley, culpable and frail,' &c.; Pope,' and capable of frailty'; Malone, incapable ; Of our flesh'; Mason conj. " and culpable : Of our flesh,' &c.

V. iii. 22. pace 'em not in their hands'; i.e. ' leading them by the bridle.'

V. iii. 30. The Upper Germany'; alluding to Thomas Munzer's insurrection in Saxony (1521-1522), or to the Anabaptist rising in Munster (1535); the passage is from Foxe.

V. iii. 66. • Lay,' i.e. 'though ye lay.'

V. iii. 85. “This is too much'; the Folios give the speech to the Chamberlain, evidently due to confusion of Cham, and Chan.'

V. iii, 125 'bare'; Malone's emendation of Ff., "base.'

V. iii. 165. "You ’ld spare your spoons,' i.e. 'you wish to save your spoons'; alluding to the old custom of giving spoons as christen. ing presents.

V. iv. 27. And that I would not for a cow, God save her!' a proverbial expression still used in the South of England.

V. iv. 65, 66. The tribulation of Tower-hill, or the limbs of Limehouse. There is no evidence for finding in these words the names of Puritan congregations, as commentators have supposed; the alternative phrases are sufficiently expressive without any such supposition, and were perhaps coined for the occasion; they are not found elsewhere.

V. v. 71. 'And your good brethren’; Thirlby's conjecture, adopted by Theobald ; Ff. read and you good brethren.'

V. v. 76. "has'; i.e. he has; Ff., • 'Has.'

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