Volume II Part 82 (1/2)

[323] So ed. 1598.--Eds. 1612, 1622, ”down.”

[324] Ovid _Metam._ vi. 195.

[325] The scene s.h.i.+fts to Westminster.

[326] Old eds. ”Bishop.”

[327] Scene: Berkeley Castle.

[328] _I.e._, the dungeon full of mire and puddle. But perhaps we should read ”lock.”

[329] A curtain is drawn and the king is discovered in the dungeon.

[330] Business.

[331] So eds. 1598, 1612.--Ed. 1622 ”tottered.”

[332] The feather-bed mentioned in l. 32. ”It was no doubt thrust upon the stage from the wing after the exit of Gurney and Matrevis.”--_Dyce._

[333] Old eds. ”That _and_ even.”

[334] Mr. Fleay would read ”fau't” (_i.e._ fault), comparing _Richard III._ ii. 1, 104:--”His _fault_ was thought.”

[335] So ed. 1598.--Omitted in eds. 1612, 1622.

[336] So eds. 1598, 1612, (”eies-lids”).--Ed. 1622 ”eye lids.”

[337] Eds. 1598, 1612, ”O let me not die, yet stay, O stay a while.” Ed.

1622 ”O let me not die yet! O stay a while” (and so Dyce). Mr. Fleay prints:--

”Oh!

Let me not die yet; stay, oh stay a while.”

[338] Scene: the royal palace, London.

[339] So ed. 1598.--Omitted in eds. 1612, 1622.

[340] The old eds. repeat ”I.”

[341] The prefix in the old eds. is ”_Lords._”

[342] So ed. 1598.--Eds. 1612, 1622, ”_How now_, my Lord?” (which is perhaps the right reading).

[343] Old eds. ”_Lords._”

[344] Omitted in eds. 1612, 1622.

[345] Old eds. ”_Lords._”