Act V
Chor. “And the Emperor’s coming in behalf of France.”
Sc. 1
“I eat and eat I swear....”
I read, with Johnson, ‘eke’ for the second ‘eat,’ as more Pistolian.
Sc. 2
“So happy be the issue, brother Ireland.”
I retain this reading of the folio; for I cannot see what should make the printer change England to Ireland, while the Queen may have done so to vary the title.
“Is be full of deceits; dat is de princess say.”
“Wanting the scythe all uncorrected, rank.”
The folio reads ‘withal’ for ‘all.’
“And as our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges.”
The folio has ‘all our,’ which the context rejects. ‘As’ is the reading of Capell.
“Sauf votre honneur, me understand not well.”
Sense and metre seem to demand the negative.
“And I of thine most truly falsely must needs.”
“Notwithstanding the poor and untempering effect of my visage.”
I think we should read untempting, with Warburton.
“His daughter first, and in the sequel all.”
“And thereupon give unto me your daughter.”