Chapter 46

Song.Get you hence for I must goeAut.Where it fits not you to know.

Song.Get you hence for I must goe

Aut.Where it fits not you to know.

The fourth thus:

Song.

Get you hence for I must go,Aut.Where fits not you to know.

Get you hence for I must go,

Aut.Where fits not you to know.

Rowe first set it right.

Note XVII.

IV. 4. 328. We have adopted the spelling 'squier' here, as inLove's Labour's Lost,v.2. 474, because the word in this sense is now obsolete, and because this spelling comes nearest to 'esquierre,' from which it is derived.

Note XVIII.

IV. 4. 417. We have followed Rowe in ejecting the first 'never' from the line, for these reasons. 1. The misprint is of a very common sort. The printer's eye caught the word at the end of the line. 2. The metre is improved by the change. The line was made doubly inharmonious by the repetition of 'never.' 3. The sense is improved. Polixenes would rather make light of his son's sighs than dwell so emphatically upon their cause.

Note XIX.

IV. 4. 504. We think Malone's stage direction 'going' was inserted under a mistaken view of Florizel's meaning. He apologises to Camillo for talking apart with Perdita in his presence. At the commencement of this whispered conversation he said to Camillo, 'I'll hear you by and by,' and at the close of it he turns again to him with 'Now, good Camillo;' &c.

Note XX.

IV. 4. 693. In the first Folio the reading is 'at 'Pallace,' the apostrophe, if it be not a misprint, pointing either to the omission of the article or its absorption in rapid pronunciation, as iniv.4. 105, 'with' Sun.' Perhaps the Clown speaks of the King being 'at palace' as he would have spoken of an ordinary man being 'at home.'

Note XXI.

IV. 4. 715. The first Folio has 'at toaze,' which is apparently a corruption. The subsequent Folios read 'or toaze,' which in default of a more certain correction we have adopted. It is not improbable, however, that Autolycus may have coined a word to puzzle the clowns, which afterwards puzzled the printers.

Note XXII.

V. I. 60. Steevens distinctly claims as his own the emendation which is due to Capell, and credit has been given him for it by Malone and subsequent editors. In a similar manner he appropriates Capell's division of the speeches in line 75 as a conjecture of his own. Malone proposes to retain the reading of the Folios in lines 58-60, with a different punctuation, thus:

"Again possess her corpse, (and on the stageWhere we offenders now appear soul-vex'd)And begin, 'why to me?'"

"Again possess her corpse, (and on the stage

Where we offenders now appear soul-vex'd)

And begin, 'why to me?'"

In the last words there is probably a corruption which cannot be removed by simple transposition.

Note XXIII.

V. 3. 18. Mr Halliwell says that 'Lonely' is the reading of the first Folio. Capell's copy has 'Lowely,' and the same is found in Mr Ferrers' copy.

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FOOTNOTES:[1]Dramatis Personæ] First given by Rowe.[2]Petruchio]PetrucioKnight.PetruccioRitson conj.[3]GrumioGrunnio] S. Walker conj.[4]Curtis] Capell.[5]Dramatis PersonæFirst given by Rowe.See note (i).[6]RousillonPope.Rossilion.Rowe.RosillionCapell.[7]LafeuLefeuSteevens conj.[8]ParollesParolesSteevens conj.[9]First given by Rowe.See note (i).[10]Dramatis Personæ. Given imperfectly as 'The Names of the Actors' in Ff.[11]MamilliusMamillus. Rowe (ed. 2).[12]Bohemia Bithynia. Hanmer.[13]Words and clauses omitted in Ff.[14]a lady ... Hermione. Rowe. a Lady. Ff.[15]Scene... Rowe. om. Ff.

[1]Dramatis Personæ] First given by Rowe.

[2]Petruchio]PetrucioKnight.PetruccioRitson conj.

[3]GrumioGrunnio] S. Walker conj.

[4]Curtis] Capell.

[5]Dramatis PersonæFirst given by Rowe.See note (i).

[6]RousillonPope.Rossilion.Rowe.RosillionCapell.

[7]LafeuLefeuSteevens conj.

[8]ParollesParolesSteevens conj.

[9]First given by Rowe.See note (i).

[10]Dramatis Personæ. Given imperfectly as 'The Names of the Actors' in Ff.

[11]MamilliusMamillus. Rowe (ed. 2).

[12]Bohemia Bithynia. Hanmer.

[13]Words and clauses omitted in Ff.

[14]a lady ... Hermione. Rowe. a Lady. Ff.

[15]Scene... Rowe. om. Ff.

Transcriber notes:P. 81.Linenote: 60 should be 61, changed.P. 265Linenote:65. 'olly' changed to 'folly'.P. 270.Linenote: 28 'Youth to fight' is 31, changed.P. 413.linenote:123. 'Cleomines' changed to 'Cleomenes'.Fixed various punctuation.

Transcriber notes:

P. 81.Linenote: 60 should be 61, changed.

P. 265Linenote:65. 'olly' changed to 'folly'.

P. 270.Linenote: 28 'Youth to fight' is 31, changed.

P. 413.linenote:123. 'Cleomines' changed to 'Cleomenes'.

Fixed various punctuation.

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