Act IV Sc. 1
“Yes, Poole.—Poole?—Poole, sir Poole, lord Poole.”
“Jove sometime went disguis’d, and why not I?”
This line, so essential to the sense, is not in the folio; to obtain it recourse has been had to The Contention.
“As hating thee, are rising up in arms.”
For ‘are,’ Rowe’s correction, the folio has and.
“Advance our half-fac’d sun, striving to shine.”
For ‘our’ we should read a or an; for the Captain does not seem to have had any connexion with the House of York. See on Hen. V. ii. Chor.
“Exempt is true nobility from fear.”
The folio reads ‘True nobility is exempt.’ We might also, with a loss of force however, read ‘For true,’ etc. Still the choice is difficult.
Sc. 2
“I’ll make myself a knight here presently.”
Sc. 4
“Trust nobody for fear you be betray’d.”
The 2nd folio supplied be.
Sc. 7
“And the help of hatchet.”
For ‘help’ Farmer read pap. “Pap of hatchet” was a common phrase. In the preceding line there is in the folio a misprint of candle for ‘caudle.’
Sc. 8
“Or let a rabble lead you to your deaths.”
Both Collier’s and Singer’s folio properly read rebel.
Sc. 9
“Of Gallowglasses and stout Kernes he.”
“I pray thee, Buckingham, to go and meet him.”
Sc. 10
“Contenteth me and is worth a monarchy.”
“And as for words whose greatness answers words.”