rly quartos have "Unripst," and the folio "Unwe. The old text may indicate the contracted e. Cf. -ts for -test (Gr. 340).

For the intensive use of dear, see K. John, p. 138. for dearest the quartos have "greatest." e line is not in the quartos.

"Growing up in beauty" (Schmidt). The the early eds., but was inserted by Pope. See

one yet new to the world" (Johnson).

My love for my brother. So, in the next line, ve for thy brother.

ecompense. It is the reading of the Ist quarto quartos have "neede."

The line is omitted in the folios.

On i. 3. 353 above; and for another allusion to i. 2. 158:

-us. But there was such laughing!

uba laughed that her eyes ran o'er.

2. With millstones."

Madam, iv. 3:

1 dost belie him, varlet! he, good gentleman,

e hears how we are used.

es, millstones."

3. 185: "As you were lesson'd;" T. G. of V. ii.

tc.

The passage in the quartos stands thus:

for when I parted with him,

e in his arms, and swore, with sobs," etc.

or. For the transitive use, cf. Much Ado, p. 167. you. The quartos read "now he delivers thee," rld's" for earth's. In the next speech they have ou, "art thou" for are you, etc.

dly, etc. The Ist quarto gives the passage thus:

lent, and saue your soules.

, tis cowardly and womanish.
t to relent, is beastly, sauage, diuelish,

discovered. It is impossible to believe that Shakesp feeble nonsense as that in the last three lines of Claren appears in that version which has just been quoted. T hers made futile efforts at emendation; but it was lef discover that the difficulty was caused by the insertion in of the five lines added on the revision of the play. By a made, they were inserted after the first line of the first of t es, whereas they were intended for the same position ir is appears not only by the absurdity of Clarence's first sp pted reading, but from severance in that reading of Claren Relent,' and the Murderer's prompt reply, 'Relent! 'tis the latter of which was, from its very nature, plainly inte ne former on the instant. In the reading of the folio, he negative is doubtless an accidental insertion." Mal Sr., D., the Camb. editors, Clarke, and others follow Tyrw and H. (school ed.) omit the added lines. K. and V. fc as Coll. does, with a change in pointing, and the additio s from his MS. corrector, thus:

"Would not entreat for life? As you would beg,
Were you in my distress, so pity me."

- Take that, etc. The quartos read

"I [ay] thus, and thus: if this will not serve Ile chop thee in the malmesey but in the next roome." evous murther. The quartos have "grievous guilty mun

ve order. The quartos have "take order," for which see i

ACT II.

I.-5. To. The 1st and 2d quartos have "from." W. r or part=depart, see M. of V. p. 145, and for part to, cf. T.

1st ed. K. says that he has followed "the folio instead of adopting the ations of the modern editors," but his printer, perhaps from mistakin irections of the "copy," has transposed the five lines, "Which of you," t does. "If such an error can escape the notice of so careful an editor. to occur in the folio, which could hardly be said to have an editor at }

1. 3. 4, etc.

2. Instead of cherishing. See Gr. 125.

m. Cf. i. 3. 238 above.

tc. The folios read:

■ in good time,

- Sir Richard Ratcliffe and the Duke."

"Enter Ratcliffe, and Gloster." Spedding retion in the stage-direction was no doubt intende is described by More as one 'whose service ed in that counsel [the murder of the lords at ion of such lawless enterprises, as a man who him,' etc. He had an important part in the he scarcely speaks a dozen times all through. Avisable to bring him and his relation to Richwhen he appears presently in the execution of night know who he was. Therefore, though he e was to come in with Richard: and 'Ratcliffe'

was written in the margin, meaning it to be on 'Enter Gloster.' The printer or the traninsertion meant for the text, and thrust it into ere it disorders the metre and does not come

Cf. I Hen. VI. iii. 1. 26: "From envious malice

C. i. 3. 23:

"and there were drawn

heap a hundred ghastly women," etc.

quarto reading; the folios have "unwillingly," rint.

s, etc.. The reading of the first four quartos: and you, Lord Rivers and of Dorset;" and after f you Lord Woodvill, and Lord Scales of you." e was no such person as Lord Woodvill.

Milton, in his Eikonoklastes, has the following : "The poets, and some English, have been in decorum, as to put never more pious words in than of a tyrant. I shall not instance an abking might be less conversant, but one whom osest companion of these his solitudes, William aced the person of Richard the Third, speaking y and mortification as is uttered in any passage ot much license in departing from the truth of history, w a deep dissembler, not of his affections only, but his relig ...highness. The quartos have "liege... majesty." Late, tardy. Cf. lag of (=later than) in Lear, i. 2. 6. Ba syllable. er in bloody thoughts, etc. Cf. Macb. ii. 3. 146:

rrent from suspicion. Pass free from suspicion, are beli ght. For the metaphor, cf. i. 3. 256 above and iv. 2. 9 bel Forfeit. That is, the thing forfeited, or his servant's life. - 1. 37: "To have the due and forfeit of my bond," etc. advis'd. Be considerate, be not hasty. Cf. i. 3. 318 above -. Wrap. Cf. Macb. i. 2. 54: "lapp'd in proof;" and C 'lapp'd In a most curious mantle." See also Milton, L me in soft Lydian airs;" and cf. p. 177 above. ck'd. A favourite word with S. Cf. i. 1. 55, ii. 2. 58, iii. nd v. 4. 19 in the present play.

put it. As to put it. Cf iii. 2. 27 below. Gr. 281. gracious. Impious, wicked. Cf. Rich. II. ii. 3. 89:

"and that word grace

In an ungracious mouth is but profane;"

2. IV. ii. 4. 490: "Swearest thou, ungracious boy ?" holding. Beholden; the only form in S. Cf. iii. 1. 107 be

11. Constantly; as very often. Gr. 69.

II.-Enter the Duchess of York. “Cecily, daughter of R irst Earl of Westmoreland, and widow of Richard Duk o was killed at the battle of Wakefield in 1460. She surv and thirty-five years, living till the year 1495" (Malone). I grandam, etc. The quartos read, “Tell me, good granda r dead?" and in 3, "Why do you wring your hands, and b

hans, wretches. The quartos have "wretches, orphans," ar labour to weep for one," etc. sins. Here grandchildren. For its application to neph rothers-in-law, etc., see Ham. p. 179. Cf. iii. 1. 2 below. portune. Accented on the penult, as regularly in S. See

his word was used in no derogatory sense, and easts" (W.). Cf. 2 Hen. VI. iii. 2. 393:

d and gentle as the cradle-babe
with mother's dug between its lips."

adrisyllable. See on i. 3. 80 above.

y the preceding scene. Cf. K. John, ii. 1. 376:

theatre, whence they gape and point industrious scenes and acts of death."

T. N. v. 1. 254, and Macb. ii. 4. 5. - The quartos read:

the branches now the root is wither'd? er not the leaves, the sap being gone?"

ght. The quartos have "perpetual rest." The changing light." Cf. i. 4. 47 above. = children by whom he was represented" (John.

ors, etc. Malone compares R. of L. 1758:

en glass, I often did behold eet semblance my old age new born; that fair fresh mirror, dim and old, e a bare-bon'd death by time out-worn."

thy mother's glass, and she in thee

: the lovely April of her prime;

hrough windows of thine age shalt see

f wrinkles this thy golden time."

ward and Clarence; the false glass is Gloster. 2. 250 above.

nd, exceed; as in Sonn. 103. 7: "That overgoes e." O'ergo is=go over, travel, in L. L. L. v. 2.

ailes you have o'ergone."

s "the moon, the governess of floods" (M. N. D. the tides. See also 1 Hen. IV. i. 2. 31 : "being by the moon."

e sense="of one so dearly loved," and "so in.

cular" (Schmidt), or "separately dedicated to ke).

"for an Edward weep. These words are in the olios.