King Henry VI — Part II
Act I Sc. 1
“They please us well. Lord Marquess, kneel thee down.”
“And hath his Highness in his infancy
Been crowned in Paris, in despight of foes?”
Capell also added Been.
Sc. 3
“That my mistress was? No forsooth.”
For ‘mistress’ Malone very properly read master. (See on Tam. of Shr. i. 2.) In the Contention the only word used here is master.
“God and King Henry govern England’s realm.
Give up your staff, sir, and the King his realm.”
One of these ‘realms’ must be wrong. (Introd. p. 60.) Johnson proposed helm for the first; I make that change in the second. “And you yourself shall steer the happy helm” (i. 3).
“She’s tickled now; her fume now needs no spurs,
She’ll gallop fast enough to her destruction.”
The 2nd folio reads ‘can need’; ‘fast’ is Pope’s correction for far of the folio.