King Henry VI — Part I.
Act I Sc. 1
“Than Julius Cæsar or bright...”
Johnson proposed Berenice; and, though it was her hair and not herself that was stellified, he may have been right. The punctuation here given, however, removes all difficulty.
“Guienne, Champaigne, Rheims, Orleans, and Roan.”
A little lower we have, “Is Paris lost? is Roän yielded up?”
“A third thinks that without expense at all.”
The 2nd folio reads ‘A third man thinks.’
“He being in the vaward, placed behind.”
Most certainly ‘vaward’ should be ‘rearward’. Introd. p. 66.
Sc. 2
“Otherwhiles the famish’d English like pale ghosts.”
Collier’s folio reads ‘The whiles.’
Sc. 3
“Villains, answer you the Lord Protector so?”
The folio has ‘answer you so.’
“Gloster, we’ll meet, and to thy cost, be sure.”
“For I intend to have it off ere long.”
Sc. 5
“Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf.”
For ‘treacherous,’ which must be wrong, Pope read timorous, Collier’s folio tremulous.
Sc. 6
“For rescued is Orleans from the English.”
The 2nd folio reads ‘English wolves.’
“Divinest creäture, Astræa’s daughter.”
The 2nd folio reads bright Astræa’s.
“Before the kings and queens of France for aye.”