The Merry Wives of Windsor Part 4

77: _thank_] _love_ Farmer conj. MS.

80: _Cotsall_ F1 Q3.] _Cotsale_ F2 F3 F4.

82-84: _Slen ... dog_] _Shall. You'll ... confess._ Slen. _That ... not._ Shall. _'Tis ... dog._ Farmer conj. MS.

98: SCENE III. Pope.

99: _king_] _council_ (Q1 Q2) Warburton.

102: _daughter?_] F1 Q3 F2 F3. _daughter._ (Q1 Q2) F4.

106, 107: _council ... counsel_] _councell ... counsell_ (Q1 Q2).

_councell ... councill_ F1 Q3 F2. _council ... counsell_ F3.

_council ... councel_ F4.

107, 108: _you if ... you'll_] _you: if it were known in council, you'll_ Harness (Johnson conj.).

107: _known_] _not known_ Pope.

114: _Pistol._] _Pistol; they carried me to the tavern and made me drunk, and afterward picked my pocket._ Malone (from Q1 Q2).

See note (III).

119-120: _pauca, pauca ... humour_] Evans. _Pauca, pauca._ Nym. _Slice ... humour._ Farmer conj.

126: _three_] _third_ Pope.

127: _Garter_] Q3. _Gater_ Ff.

131: _discreetly_] _discretions_ Pope.

146: _latten_] _laten_ (Q1 Q3). latine Ff Q3.

_latten bilbo._] _latten. Bilbo!_ Becket conj.

147: _thy labras here_] _my labras hear_ Johnson conj.

150: _avised_] _advis'd_ F4.

151: _the nuthook's humour_] _the base humour_ Pope.

_bace humors_ (Q1 Q2).

160: _fap_] _sap_ A. A. conj. _vap_ Boys conj.

161: _careires_] _car-eires_ Ff Q3. _careeres_ Capell.

171: [Exit A. P.] Theobald.

175: [Kisses her.] Pope.

179: SCENE IV. Pope.

186: _Michaelmas_] _Martlemas_ Theobald.

188: _this, coz_] _this_ Q3.

192: _that that_] _that_ F3 F4.

209: _mouth_] _mind_ Pope.

210: _carry_] F1 Q3. _marry_ F2 F3 F4.

216: _carry her_] _carry-her_ F1 Q3 F2 F3. _carre-her_ F4.

228: _contempt_] Theobald. _content_ Ff Q3.

230: _fall_] Ff Q3. _faul'_ Hanmer. _fault_ Collier. _fall'_ Singer.

_faul_ Dyce.

234: _hanged_] _hang'_ F2 F3 F4.

236: SCENE V. Pope.

249: _beholding_] _beholden_ Pope.

251: _like_] om. F2 F3 F4.

275: _I'll eat_] _I chuse to eat_ Hanmer.

SCENE II. _The same._

_Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE._

_Evans._ Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly, which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer.

_Sim._ Well, sir. 5

_Evans._ Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire and require her to solicit your master's desires to Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will make an end of my dinner; 10 there's pippins and cheese to come. [_Exeunt._

NOTES: I, 2

SCENE II.] SCENE VI. Pope.

The same.] Capell. An outer room in Page's house. Dyce.

3: _dry_] _try_ (Q1 Q2) Dyce.

4: _wringer_] Theobald. _Ringer_ Ff Q3.

11: _cheese_] _seese_ Dyce.

SCENE III. _A room in the Garter Inn._

_Enter FALSTAFF, Host, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, and ROBIN._

_Fal._ Mine host of the Garter!

_Host._ What says my bully-rook? speak scholarly and wisely.

_Fal._ Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my followers. 5

_Host._ Discard, bully Hercules; cas.h.i.+er: let them wag; trot, trot.

_Fal._ I sit at ten pounds a week.

_Host._ Thou'rt an emperor, Caesar, Keisar, and Pheezar.

I will entertain Bardolph; he shall draw, he shall tap: said 10 I well, bully Hector?

_Fal._ Do so, good mine host.

_Host._ I have spoke; let him follow. [_To Bard._] Let me see thee froth and lime: I am at a word; follow. [_Exit._

_Fal._ Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade: 15 an old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered serving-man a fresh tapster. Go; adieu.

_Bard._ It is a life that I have desired: I will thrive.

_Pist._ O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?

[_Exit Bardolph._ 20

_Nym._ He was gotten in drink: is not the humour conceited?

_Fal._ I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-box: his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful singer; he kept not time. 25

_Nym._ The good humour is to steal at a minute's rest.

_Pist._ 'Convey,' the wise it call. 'Steal!' foh! a fico for the phrase!