Act IV Sc. 1
“This dastard at the battle of Patay.”
The folio reads Poictiers; Steevens made the correction. The error must have been the printer’s.
“But always resolute in most extremes.”
I adopt the correction of worst for ‘most.’
“And now, my Lord Protector, view the letter.”
“My lord, how say you? Are you not content?”
The folio reads “How say you, my lord?”
“To wilful disobedience and rebellion.”
The end had certainly been effaced. Introd. p. 57.
“An if I wist he did... but let it rest.”
So Steevens corrected the wish of the folio.
“But that it doth presage some ill event.”
For ‘that’ we should read sees, or some other verb.
Sc. 4
“Swearing that you withhold his levied host.”
For ‘host’ Hanmer read horse, which the next speech would seem to prove to be right.
Sc. 5
“But if I bow they’ll say it was for fear.”
For ‘bow’ I read do.
Sc. 7
“Great Märshal to Henery the Sixth.”
So Lucy must have pronounced it, in a slow measured tone. See on Rich. II. i. 3.
“For God’s sake let him have ’em.”
For ‘’em’ the folio reads him here, and five lines lower down.