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arly hour at which this scene closes ('upon the stroke of ten '), and er the coronation for Anne is not present, and Stanley's business at of Dorsetsuggest the commencement of a new day with this scen flight could not be long concealed from Richard, we can scarcely i De later than the morrow of Act IV. sc. i."

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ard to the next scene (iv. 3) Mr. Daniel asks: "The time of this efore supper-time, about five or six o'clock p.m. On the same day ene? It should be if Tyrrel kept his promise to a king not prone to 1. Then the young princes were abed early in the afternoon. Not ne reader must decide for himself on the probabilities of the case. me day, notwithstanding the astounding celerity of the march of ev ain intelligence when Tyrrel goes off to meditate, between this and aft w the King may do him good. We learn that between this time and Richard has pent up the son of Clarence close; that he has match mere child on the morning of yesterday) in a mean marriage; that th bid the world good night,' and that being now free, he is about to og wooer,' to young Elizabeth, and so prevent the aims of Breton Ric ter! And this is not all; for Catesby comes in with the intelligence t Richmond, and that Buckingham-here at ten this morning is in th 1 the hardy Welshmen, and still his power increaseth! ends the scene, determining to make instant preparations to put dowr ebellion. Does he wait for supper? I think not. If Buckingham on to Brecknock (150 miles), levy an army there, and let the news of h back to London all in the course of a few hours, Richard may surely a in ten minutes. He does so.

ardly say that it is Tyrrel's business which forces sc. ii. and iii. of Act ] f we could throw him over, or suppose him to have taken a week or a fulfil his murderous engagement, so much time as we allow him m an interval between these two scenes; but the dramatist fixes his time. hing I presume we are bound to accept the definite before the inc and iii. being thus brought together, scenes iv. and v. join them as a

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mond hears that Richard now lies near Leicester, 'one day's marcl , and thither he proceeds to join battle with him. Here, as the autho Finite points, with the time necessary for traversing the space between ession may be allowable, with the view of ascertaining the lapse of timed by the plot of the drama between our Days 8 and 10. From Tamw is 'one dav's march: the distance on the map, in a straight line, is 24 at this rate, Richmond has marched from Milford to Tamworth-16 even days. Richard has marched from London to Salisbury, and fron eicester-190 miles seven to eight days. Are we to distribute this ti two last intervals that I have doubtfully marked. or are we to go to l find that Richmond landed at Milford Haven on the 7th August, 14 e battle of Bosworth Field on the 22d of the same month? Or are w -the instances of the annihilation of time and space which this Play els ? It seems a fruitless inquiry, but it at any rate leads to the conclusi r himself actually, if not designedly, put aside all such considerations wh the plots of his dramas."

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present edition (see p. 11) we have fole quarto has clearly the better reading. e p. 11, foot-note) there are about 1300 act i., out of 1062 lines in the quarto, "a altered in the folio; in act ii. 161 lines 1028; in act iv. 321 out of 848; and in een revised less minutely, 89 out of 458. s (inserted in 45 different places) which

the other hand, the quarto has a numa passage of 17 lines, omitted in the folio. iations are mentioned in the Notes, with to show how trivial they are. The difang an argument upon; wherefore the puted over it all the more vehemently.

[E PLAY, WITH THE SCENES IN WHICH in parentheses indicate the lines the

/hole no. 64.

7. 3(8). Whole no. 51.

1(23); v. 3(8). Whole no. 47.

. 3(10). Whole no. 174.

1(125), 2(154), 3(125); ii. 1(56), 4(32), 198); v. 3(154), 4(6). Whole no. 1161.

21). Whole no. 21.

(32). Whole no. 136.

no. 9.

le no. 12.

hole no. 7.

(12), 2(24); iii. 1(58), 2(7), 4(12), 5(27),

o). Whole no. 374.

10. 10.

I.

12); iii. 3(17); v. 3(4). Whole no. 55

; iv. 1(1). Whole no. 15.

3). Whole no. 13.

2.

1(3), 2(1); iii. 1(6), 2(70), 4(49); v. 3(5).

v. 2(2), 3(6)." Whole no. 8.

v. 2(1). Whole no. 1.

ury: i. 1(8), 4(25); iv. 1(6). Whole no. 39.

: iv. 5(8). Whole no. 8.

iii. 2(1). Whole no. 1.

iii. 1(1), 5(11), 7(5). Whole no. 17.

v. 1(2). Whole no. 2.

an: i. 2(2). Whole no. 2.

derer: i. 3(7), 4(59). Whole no. 66.

derer: i. 4(69). Whole no. 69.

zen: ii. 3(8). Whole no. 8.

en: ii. 3(13).

Whole no. 13.

en: ii. 3(28).

Whole no. 28.

vant: iii. 2(3).

Whole no. 3.

er: iii. 6(14).

Whole no. 14.

senger: ii. 4(9);

iii. 2(15); iv. 4(5); v. 3(1). Whole n

senger: iv. 4(3).

Whole no. 3.

senger: iv. 4(7).

Whole no. 7.

-ssenger: iv. 4(10).

Whole no. 10.

Whole no. 8.

of Henry VI.: v. 3(9). Whole no. 9.

of Prince Edward V.: v. 3(8).

iv. 2(6). Whole no. 6.

v. 3(3). Whole no. 3.

ther": iii. 7(1). Whole no. 1.

Elizabeth: i. 3(50); ii. 1(7), 2(21), 4(15); iv. 1(32), 4

0. 274.

Margaret: i. 3(124); iv. 4(94). Whole no. 218.
ss of York: ii. 2(44), 4(26); iv. 1(16), 4(54).
Whole ne
Anne: i. 2(118); iv. 1(39); v. 3(8). Whole no. 165.
Daughter of Clarence): ii. 2(9). Whole no. 9.

e above enumeration, parts of lines are counted as whole
the total in the play greater than it is. The actual num
each scene (Globe edition numbering) is as follows: i.
3(356), 4(290); ii. 1(140), 2(154), 3(49), 4(73); iii. I(200), 2
1(109), 5(109), 6(14), 7(247); iv. 1(104), 2(126), 3(57),
ν. 1(29), 2(24), 3(351), 4(13); 5(41). Whole number in the

ant), 246.

2.

, 189.

quitted, 245.
(verb), 221.

229.

g, 233.
(verb), 189.

(accent), 235.

rative), 216.

-ld to nothing, 187.
hardly), 215.

(contemptuous),

=old), 210, 229.

un), 241.
Dody, 240.

Ly and take it, 219.

), 236.

(=manifest), 201,

), 216.

d), 199, 211.

:cent), 184.

ght, 188.

215.

205.

5.

betide, 185, 187, 205.
bettering, 230.
beweep, 192.

bid (from bide), 233.
bigamy, 220.
Blue Boar Inn, 245.
Blunt, Sir James, 237.

bobbed, 244.
Bona, 220.
book (table-book), 215.
boot, 229.

bottled spider, 191, 227.
Bouchier, Cardinal, 206.
bought and sold, 243.
bowels of the land, 237.
Brandon, Sir William, 238.
braved, 243.

breathing-while, 188.
Brecknock, 226.

Breton Richmond, 227.

briganders, 173.

brook it ill, 187.

bruising irons, 240.
bulk (chest), 193.
buried (trisyllable', 199.

bushment, 174.

bustle (be busy), 183, 243. costard, 195.

but, 190, 198.

by (omitted), 219.

by Saint Paul, 183.

by substitute, 220.

cacodæmon, 189.
caitiff (feminine), 230.
Camera Regis, 206.
cancel his bond of life, 229.
capable, 210.

Countess Richmond

cousin (nephew),

cousins (grandch

199.

cried on (cried ou
Crosby House, 186,
cross-row, 181.