Act III Sc. 1
“Seek me out, and in that way I am wife in.”
“I am sorry my integrity should breed
So deep suspicion, where all faith was meant,
And service to his Majesty and you.”
This transposition of the last two lines was made by Edwards, and is right.
“And comforts to your cause.”
The folio reads our, with the usual confusion of these pronouns. The 2nd folio made the correction.
“But Cardinal Sins and hollow hearts I fear ye’re.”
“Better, both for your honour and your cause.”
The folio reads “Both for your honour better.”
Sc. 2
“Have uncontemn’d gone by him, or at least not
Strangely neglected.”
Here the negative is absolutely necessary.
“May you be happy in your wish, my lord;
For I profess you have it.—Now all my joy
Trace the conjunction!”
I hesitate not to read with Collier’s folio, ‘Now may all joy.’
“Into his own hand, in his bed-chamber.”
“Was in his countenance. You he bade then.”
“And strikes his breast hard; and anon he casts.”
“Yet filed with my abilities. Mine own ends.”
The folio reads fill’d. I adopt the usual correction.
“That for your Highness’ good I ever labour’d
More than mine own, that am, have, and will be....”
There is an evident aposiopesis here, which the editors have not perceived.
“What sudden anger’s this? how have I reap’d it?”
As ‘reap’d’ makes no sense, we might read riped, raised, or roused.
“Toward the King, my ever royal master, I
Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.”
“Now, if you can, blush and cry Guilty, Cardinal.”
So it should be pointed. “Then, if you can, be pale.” Cymb. ii. 4.
“Chattels and whatsoever, and to be.”
The folio reads Castles. Theobald made the change, as Holingshed has cattels. Perhaps we should read else after ‘whatsoever.’
“Thou fallest a blessed martyr. Serve the King and...
Pr’ythee lead me in,” etc.