Act V Sc. 1
“And much different from the man he was before.”
“In company I often glanced at it.”
“But only moody and dull melancholy.”
See Introd. p. 55. In my Edit. only is at the end.
“And at her heels a huge infectious troop.”
We should probably read his for ‘her,’ as kinsman is the antecedent.
“Hath scar’d thy husband from the use of his wits.”
As ‘his’ was probably written ’s, it escaped the printer’s eye.
“The place of death and sorry execution.”
I would read sore or sour for ‘sorry’; Collier’s folio proposes solemn. The 1st folio has depth for ‘death.’ The correction was made in the 3rd.
“To scorch your face and to disfigure you.”
Mr. Dyce properly reads scotch; for, as he observes, the very same misprint occurs in Macb. iii. 2, and Knt. of Burning Pestle, iii. 4.
“On the way we met * * * as we were going along”(?)
“These left me and my man, both bound together.”
For ‘These’ we should perhaps read They.
“Besides her urging of her wreck at sea....”
“And thereupon these Errors are arose.”
Editors ought to be ashamed of themselves for not seeing that ‘arose’ is the same as ‘arisen.’ See Introd. p. 70.
“Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail,
Of you, my sons; and till the present hour
My heavy burthen are delivered.
The Duke, my husband, and my children both,
And you, the calendars of their nativity,
Go to a gossip’s feast, and go with me,
After so long grief such nativity!”
I read this passage thus:
“Thirty-three years have I been gone in travail
Of you, my sons, until the present hour.
My heavy burthen here delivered,
The Duke, my husband, and my children both,
And you, the calendars of their nativity,
Come to a gossip’s feast, and go with me.—
After so long grief such felicity!”
All the corrections here made are my own; and yet in all but one I had been anticipated! in been by 2nd folio; in until by Boaden; in here by Grant White; in felicity by Hanmer. In my Edition of these plays I have printed “Go... come with me.” The difference is unimportant. In the first line Theobald, followed by succeeding editors, read twenty-five; but such alterations are not to be allowed.
“Master, shall I fetch your stuff from ship-board now?”