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209 _her selfe reading a letter_. A, she set close at a banquet.

213 _I sweare_. A, No, my lord.

215-216 _Why this . . . Oh, the_. A omits, possibly by mistake.

220 _fraught_. A, freight.

221 _never dreaming of D'Amboys_. A omits.

225 _this_. A, his.

226 _should_. A, could.

227 _made_. A, performed.

_Whispers_. A omits.

233 Between this line and l. 234 A inserts:--

_Char._ I sweare to your Grace, all that I can conjecture touching my lady, your neece, is a strong affection she beares to the English Mylor.

_Gui._ All, quod you? tis enough I a.s.sure you; but tell me.

242 _life_--: between this word and _especially_ A inserts: if she marks it.

243 _disguise_. A, put off.

247 _from_. A, at.

253 _are_. A, be.

269 _[th]in_. Emend. ed; Qq, in.

273 _great_. A omits.

279 _it_. A, you.

284 _wee_. A, I. _our mercies_. A, my mercy.

303 _miraculous_. A, horrible.

308 _Well, my lord_. A, My lord, tis true, and.

311-312 _Come . . . of them_. A omits.

317 _dark and standing foggs_. A, monster-formed cloudes.

322-336 _But what . . . feares_. Omitted in A, which has instead:--

I will conceale all yet, and give more time To D'Ambois triall, now upon my hooke; He awes my throat; else, like Sybillas cave, It should breath oracles; I feare him strangely, And may resemble his advanced valour Unto a spirit rais'd without a circle, Endangering him that ignorantly rais'd him, And for whose furie he hath learn'd no limit.

337-391 _Whose there . . . sweet heart_! A omits, though 382-5, with some variations, appear as 326 (half-line)--330 in B. Cf. preceding note.

358 _D'Ambois . . . lord_. So punctuated by ed.; B has: D'Ambois! why my lord?

394 _browes_. A, head.

397 _Prince_. A, Sir.

400-408 _Why wrongfull . . . oftentimes_. A omits.

409 _Put me in some little doubt_. A, This still hath made me doubt.

410 _therefore now_. A, for me then.

413-414 _How . . . friends.h.i.+p_. A omits.

414-416 _Then . . . not yours_. Omitted in A, which has instead: Come, doe not doubt me, and command mee all things.

417 _to prove which, by_. A, and now by all.

419 _still flouris.h.i.+ng tree_. A, affection.

420 _With . . . spring_. A omits.

425 _Plaine as truth_. A omits.

438 _pay me home, ile bide it bravely_. A, begin, and speake me simply.

447 _strumpet_. A, wife.

460 _thy_. A, that. _the_. A, my.

461 _hath reference_. A, I carrie.

499 _The purest_. A, A perfect.

ACTUS QUARTI SCENA PRIMA.

[_The Banquetting-Hall in the Court._]

_Henry, Monsieur with a letter, Guise, Montsurry, Bussy, Elynor, Tamyra, Beaupre, Pero, Charlotte, Anable, Pyrha, with foure Pages._

_Henry._ Ladies, ye have not done our banquet right, Nor lookt upon it with those cheereful rayes That lately turn'd your breaths to flouds of gold; Your looks, me thinks, are not drawne out with thoughts So cleare and free as heretofore, but foule 5 As if the thick complexions of men Govern'd within them.