Act IV Sc. 1
“And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.”
Collier’s folio, mistaking the sense, reads ‘something.’ ‘To’ is, so as to, that I should. Editors have not understood it.
“Be borne to burial in thy kindred’s grave.”
This line, which is superfluous, is in all the old editions. See on iii. 3.
Sc. 3
“Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.”
This is the reading of the 4to 1597; the other editions read,
“Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, here’s drink. I drink to thee.”
Sc. 4
“Nurse. Go, go, you cotquean, go.”
Singer was most certainly right in giving this speech to Lady Cap.; for the Nurse was hardly present.
Sc. 5
“Dead art thou, dead—alack! my child is dead.”
In this I find I had been as usual preceded by Theobald.
“Peace, ho, for shame! confusion’s cure lives not.”
All the old editions read care. Theobald made the correction.
“For though some nature bids us all lament.”
For ‘some’ the 2nd folio reads fond.
“Faith, we may put our pipes up and be gone.”
The originals read ‘put up.’