Part 63

_M. Gour._ [_with show of continued impatience._] By that I sweare, Ile credit none of you, until I heere 205 Friendship concluded straight betweene them two: If I see that they willingly will doe, Then Ile imagine all suspition ends; I may be then assured, they being friends.

_Phil._ Mother, make full my wish, and be it so. 210

_Mi. Bar._ What, shall I sue for friendship to my foe?

_Phil._ No: if she yeeld, will you?

_Mi. Ba._ It may be, I.

_Phil._ Why, this is well. The other I will trie.-- Come, mistresse Goursey, do you first agree. 215

_Mi. Gour._ What, shall I yeeld unto mine enemie?

_Phil._ Why, if she will, will you?

_Mi. Gou._ Perhaps I will.

_Phil._ Nay, then, I finde this goes well forward still. Mother, give me your hand,--give me yours to[o]; 220 Be not so loath; some good thing I must do; But lay your torches by, I like not them; Come, come, deliver them unto your men: Give me your hands.--So, now, sir, heere I stand, Holding two angrie women in my hand: 225 And I must please them both; I could please tone,[1938] But it is hard when there is two to one, Especially of women; but tis so, They shall be pleasd whether they will or no.-- Which will come first? what, both give back! ha, neither! 230 Why, then, yond may helpe that come both together.[1939] So, stand still, stand[1940] but a little while, And see how I your angers will beguile. Well, yet there is no hurt; why, then, let me Joyne these two hands, and see how theil agree: [_They kiss._] 235 Peace, peace! they crie; looke how they friendly kisse! Well, all this while there is no harme in this: Are not these two twins? twins should be both alike, If tone speakes faire, the tother should not strike: Jesus, these warriours will not offer blowes! 240 Why, then, tis strange that you two should be foes. O, yes, youle say, your weapons are your tongues; Touch lip with lip, and they are bound from wrongs: Go to, imbrace, and say, if you be friends, That heere the angrie womens quarrels ends. [_They embrace._] 245

_Mi. Gou._ Then heere it ends, if mistres Barnes say so.

_Mi. Bar._ If you say, I, I list not to say, no.

_M. Gou._ If they be friends, by promise we agree.

_M. Bar._ And may this league of friendship ever be!

_Phil._ What saist thou, Franke? doth not this fall out well? 250

_Fran._ Yes, if my Mall were heere, then all were well.

_Enter_ SIR RAPHE SMITH _with_ MALL [_who stands aside_].

_Raph._ Yonder they be, Mall: stay, stand close, and stur not, Untill I call.--God save yee, gentlemen!

_M. Bar._ What, sir Raph Smith! you are a welcome man: We wondred when we heard you were abroad. 255

_Raph._ Why, sir, how heard yee that I was abroad?

_M. Bar._ By your man.

_Raph._ My man! where is he?

_Will._ Heere.

_Raph._ O, yee are a trustie squire! 260

_Nic._ It had bin better, and he had said, a sure carde.

_Phil._ Why, sir?

_Nic._ Because it is the proverbe.

_Phil._ Away, yee asse!

_Nic._ An asse goes a foure legs; I go of two, Christ crosse. 265

_Phi._ Hold your tongue.

_Nic._ And make no more adoe.

_M. Gou._ Go to, no more adoe.--Gentle sir Raphe, Your man is not in fault for missing you, For he mistooke by us, and we by him. 270

_Raph._ And I by you; which now I well perceive. But tell me, gentlemen, what made yee all Be from your beds this night, and why thus late Are your wives walking heere about the fields:[1941] Tis strange to see such women of accoumpt 275 Heere; but I gesse some great occasion.

_M. Gour._ Faith, this occasion, sir: women will jarre; And jarre they did to day, and so they parted; We knowing womens mallice let alone Will, canker like, eate farther in their hearts, 280 Did seeke a sodaine cure, and thus it was,-- A match betweene his daughter and my sonne: No sooner motioned but twas agreed, And they no sooner saw but wooed and likte: They have it sought to crosse, and crosse it thus. 285

_Rap._ Fye, mistresse Barnes, and mistresse Goursey both; The greatest sinne wherein your soules may sinne, I thinke, is this, in crossing of true love: Let me perswade yee.

_Mi. Bar._ Sir, we are perswaded, 290 And I and mistresse Goursey are both friends; And, if my daughter were but found againe, Who now is missing, she had my consent To be disposd off to her owne content.

_Raph._ I do rejoyce that what I thought to doe, 295 Ere I begin, I finde already done: Why, this will please your friends at Abington.-- Franke, if thou seekst that way, there thou shalt finde Her, whom I holde the comfort of thy minde.

_Mall._ [_coming forward_]. He shall not seeke me; I will seeke him out, 300 Since of my mothers graunt I need not doubt.

_Mi. Bar._ Thy mother graunts, my girle, and she doth pray To send unto you both a joyfull day!

_Hodg._ Nay, mistresse Barnes, I wish her better; that those joyfull dayes may be turned to joyfull nights. 305

_Coom._ Faith, tis a pretty wench, and tis pitty but she should have him.

_Nich._ And, mistresse Mary, when yee go to bed, God send you good rest, and a peck a fleas in your nest, every one as big as Francis! 310

_Phil._ Well said, wisdome: God send thee wise children!

_Nich._ And you more money.

_Phil._ I, so wish I.

_Nich._ Twill be a good while ere you wish your skin full of ilet holes.

_Phil._ Franke, harke ye: brother, now your woings doone, 315 The next thing now you do is for a sonne; I prithe, for, i faith, I should be glad To have myselfe cald nunckle, and thou dad.-- Well, sister, if that Francis play the man, My mother must be grandam, and you mam.-- 320 To it, Francis,--to it, sister!--God send yee joy! Tis fine to sing, "dansey, my owne sweete boye!"

_Fra._ Well, sir, jest on.

_Phil._ Nay, sir,[1942] do you jest on.

_M. Bar._ Well, may she proove a happy wife to him! 325

_M. Gou._ And may he proove as happy unto her!

_Raph._ Well, gentlemen, good hap betide them both! Since twas my hap thus happily to meete, To be a witnesse of this sweete contract, I doe rejoyce; wherefore, to have this joye 330 Longer present with me, I do request That all of you will be my promist guests: This long nights labour dooth desire some rest, Besides this wished end; therefore, I pray, Let me deteine yee but a dinner time: 335 Tell me, I pray, shall I obtaine so much?

_M. Bar._ Gentle sir Raphe, your courtesie is such As may impose commaund unto us all; We will be thankfull bolde at your request.

_Phil._ I pray, sir Raph, what cheere shall we have? 340

_S. Raph._ I faith, countrie fare, mutton and veale, Perchance a ducke or goose.

_Mal._ Oh, I am sick!

_All._ How now, Mall? whats the matter?

_Mal._ Father and mother, if you needs would know, 345 He nam'd a goose, which is my stomacks foe.

_Phil._ Come, come, she is with childe of some od jest, And now shees sicke till that she bring[1943] it foorth.

_Mal._ A jest, quoth you! well, brother, if it be, I feare twill proove an earnest unto me.-- 350 Goose, said ye, sir? Oh, that same very name Hath in it much variety of shame! Of all the birds that ever yet was seene, I would not have them graze upon this greene; I hope they will not, for this crop is poore, 355 And they may pasture upon greater store: But yet tis pittie that they let them passe, And like a common bite the Muses grasse. Yet this I feare; if Franke and I should kisse, Some creeking goose would chide us with a hisse: 360 I meane not that goose that sings it knowes not what;[1944] Tis not that hisse when one saies, 'hist, come hither'; Nor that same hisse that setteth dogges together; Nor that same hisse that by a fire doth stand, And hisseth T. or F.[1945] upon the hand; 365 But tis a hisse, and Ile unlace my cote, For I should sound[1946] sure, if I heard that note, And then 'greene ginger for the greene goose' cries, Serves not the turne,--I turn'd the white of eyes. The _rosa-solis_[1947] yet that makes me live 370 Is favour[1948] that these gentlemen may give; But if they be displeased, then pleasde am I, To yeeld my selfe a hissing death to dye: Yet I hope heeres none consents to kill, But kindly take the favour of good will. 375 If any thing be in the pen to blame, Then here stand I to blush the writers shame: If this be bad, he promises a better; Trust him, and he will proove a right true debter. [_Exeunt._]

FOOTNOTES:

[1618] E., Act I. Sc. 1. No division into acts and scenes in Qtos.

[1619] Prospects, views. Dyce.

[1620] Q 1, _be_.

[1621] Absolute, perfect. Dyce.

[1622] Ay; so also in l. 23 _et passim_.

[1623] Dyce suggests for the metre, 'He will.' But more probably 'Heele' was a monosyllable, and 'bolde' (Q 1, 'bould') a dissyllable. According to the editor of the _Oxford Glossary_ "bold" is so pronounced at the present day.

[1624] Backgammon; cf. Shakesp. _L. L. L_. V., ii. 326.

[1625] The audience were to suppose that the stage now represented an orchard; for be it remembered that there was no movable painted scenery in the theatres at the time when this play was produced. Dyce.

[1626] Q 1, 'rubbers,' as frequently used.

[1627] Q 1, 'sneik up'--be hanged.

[1628] Q 1, 'women;' but Barnes is addressing his wife. Dy. refers to l. 147; and to l. 177, where both Qtos. have 'woman.'

[1629] The angel-noble was a gold coin worth from a third to half a sovereign; the royal or rose-noble, 10_s._

[1630] Q 1, 'women.'

[1631] Q 2, _far't_.

[1632] A term of the game.

[1633] So Dy. Qtos. _better_.

[1634] hit.

[1635] Dyce reads, 'it is'; but probably in prov. pron. 'know' was then, as frequently now, a dissyllable.

[1636] Q 2, _Forsoorh_.

[1637] Q 2, 'for such a' appended to line 202.

[1638] Q 2, 'in this absurdnes' appended to line 217.

[1639] cannot help it withal.

[1640] Q 1, 'Affoorde.'

[1641] So Qtos. Dy. suggests '_do_ impart'; cf. next line.

[1642] Note the anapæstic swing.

[1643] Qtos. append l. 258 to l. 257.

[1644] Dyce cuts lines 1-6 into a kind of blank verse.

[1645] Qtos., ll. 33 and 34 as one.

[1646] Dy., qy. 'tacke'? But, of course, the boy uttered the 'tchick' with which one urges a horse.

[1647] Taught her to _tread the ring_,--to perform various movements in different directions within a ring marked out on a piece of ground. Dyce.

[1648] champaign.

[1649] A tagged lace used to attach the hose or breeches to the doublet. Dyce.

[1650] sole, or oblate surface.

[1651] Qtos., ll 110 and 111 as one.

[1652] Q 1, 'th'art.'

[1653] Dy., qy. 'Wher.'

[1654] Q 2, _phethe._

[1655] Q 1, 'in the.'

[1656] ll. 162-165, 167-171, 174-176, 181-184, printed as verse in the originals.

[1657] Q 2, _Wirl._

[1658] Not in Q 1.

[1659] Names of taverns. Ellis.

[1660] H. and E., "yee lye--the Hornes," as if a tavern name. But Qtos., as above,--"You are lying about the horns, I have none."

[1661] your sword.

[1662] So Dyce. Qtos., _me_,--_my_.

[1663] Dy. suggests 'He is'; but qy. 'Coo-ums'?

[1664] quality, humour.

[1665] Dy. suggests 'he will.'

[1666] crewel.

[1667] The originals run, "Bridelaces sir his hat, and all greene hat"; so Dyce. Ellis, silently, "Bridelaces, sir--and his hat all green." It _may_ have been written, "Bridelaces, sir. His hat'--an all," etc. Coomes parades his wedding trophies.

[1668] So Dy. from Q 1; but not in Q 2.

[1669] E., Act II. Sc. 1.

[1670] H. and E., 'indiscreet.'

[1671] So Dy.; Qtos., 'vassailes.'

[1672] ll. 31 and 32 as one in Qtos.

[1673] Q 2, _me_.

[1674] Q 2, _effect_.

[1675] Q 1, 'womens.'

[1676] Qy. 'for _an._' Dyce.

[1677] discipline.

[1678] Read, for the metre, 'She is.' Dyce.

[1679] God's.

[1680] Dy. suggests 'red'; H. and E. adopt.

[1681] Q 1, 'tother yeere.'

[1682] Q 2, _restained_.

[1683] Dy., H., E. 'have beene.'

[1684] See p. 464 _n_ (_F. B._, vii. 74).

[1685] Qtos., _apprehend_,--but certainly Mall had spoken with sufficient plainness. Dyce.

[1686] nature.

[1687] The fate of old maids; cf. Shakesp. _T. of S._ II. 1.

[1688] Q 1, _nay_.

[1689] Little Milton is about eight miles northeast of Abingdon, across the fields. Great Milton is about a mile farther north.

[1690] The common dress of a servingman. Dyce.

[1691] Qtos., 'you,'--which, perhaps, is the right reading, some word having dropt out after it. Qy. thus;--

"_Mis. Bar._ Mistresse flurt, you _mean_, Foule strumpet, light a loue, short heeles! Mistresse Goursey Call her," etc. Dyce. H. and E., 'yea.'

[1692] Q 2, _more_.

[1693] Q 1, _tell_.

[1694] vile.

[1695] Qtos., _forlorne_.

[1696] Q 1, _the_.

[1697] Q 1, _Thaust._

[1698] Q 2, _no_.

[1699] Q 2 appends this to the preceding line.

[1700] Q 2, _father_.

[1701] Q 2, _repeats_.

[1702] Q 1, 'Gads.'

[1703] Qtos., _His_.

[1704] Qy., "Franke he is young"? compare the preceding line but one. Dyce.

[1705] Qtos., no comma. Qy., 'rime-rotten.'

[1706] _sprüche_: rare.

[1707] By our lady.

[1708] miser.

[1709] Q 1, _ma_.

[1710] As who should say, "Your company is indifferent to me." So in _Mother Bombie_, "Farewell frost, my fortune naught me cost," and Ray's _Proverbs_: "F.f., Nothing got nor nothing lost."

[1711] Q 1, _faith in_.

[1712] Qtos., _some_.

[1713] Qtos., _treason_.

[1714] vomits.

[1715] A quantity of ten: one-twentieth of a last.

[1716] So Q 2. Dy., etc., 'knave.'

[1717] Qtos., _But_.

[1718] Struck by a tramp vessel?

[1719] Cf. _Haml._ I. ii., "A beast that wants discourse of reason," and III. i., "the mould of form."

[1720] Q 1, _cehape_.

[1721] Perhaps the word squints at two contemporary significations: cart-horse: squeamish eater.

[1722] Not in Q 1.

[1723] Q 1, 'drinke.'

[1724] Q 1, _Nich._

[1725] Cf. Du., _vrolijk zijn_, 'to be jolly,' and Heywood and Brome, _Lanc. Witches_, "what, all lustick, all froligozene." _New Eng. Dic._ Q 2 reads 'Nicke _Frolagozene_' _sc._ 'Nick _Jovial_.'

[1726] Omitted in Q 2.

[1727] until.--Ought not the passage to stand as follows?--

"no, I will not; _Nor_ waite while one comes out to answere _me_," Dyce.

[1728] Q 2, _to_.

[1729] ll. 6-10, printed as prose, Q 2. So also ll. 17-22, save that the initial letter of each line, except 22, is capitalized.

[1730] H. and E, gratuitously, 'shackles.'

[1731] Qtos., _seeme_.

[1732] excess; cf. Scotch 'scouth'; free swing.

[1733] Q 1, _fathers_.

[1734] Qtos., _to_.

[1735] Q 1, _than_.

[1736] Qtos., _Franke_.

[1737] be wi' ye.

[1738] Q 2, 'judged.'

[1739] Dy.; qy., 'unto.'

[1740] Q 1, _maister_.

[1741] Q 2, _baun_.

[1742] Q 2, _ye_.

[1743] Q 1, _craft_.

[1744] So Q 2; but Dy., H., E., transpose these lines.

[1745] broadsword.

[1746] H., 'garden-butt.'

[1747] the sharp point in the centre. Dyce.

[1748] Q 1, _and_.

[1749] Qtos., _out_.

[1750] brave.

[1751] Q 2, _Gourseys_.

[1752] manlike.

[1753] Cf. _M. of V._, II. ii., dialogue between Gobbo's conscience and the fiend.

[1754] the parson.

[1755] E., Act III. Sc. 1.

[1756] A line missing, to rhyme with 'elfes.' Hazlitt.

[1757] forester.

[1758] A barrow; also a burrow when of rabbits, as in Sc. X, l. 9. Here it is probably a misprint for bevvie = bevy. So E.

[1759] Q 1, _me._

[1760] Q 1, 'th.'

[1761] Qtos., _he_.

[1762] Q 2, 'doe.'

[1763] Q 1, _thee_.

[1764] Q 1, 'thorowly.'

[1765] Q 2, 'may.'

[1766] Q 2, _I_.

[1767] Q 2, _chanke_.

[1768] Q 1, sound, _i.e._ swoon.

[1769] bow down before intellects of small merit.

[1770] Qtos., _wone_.

[1771] An _I_ of the Christ-cross row or alphabet.

[1772] pigsney. Cent. Dict. But Dyce: a term of endearment, formed, perhaps, from _pink_, to wink, to contract the eyelids.

[1773] Qtos., _sower_.

[1774] dear.

[1775] beat, urge.

[1776] Q 2, 'would have.'

[1777] Cf. _M.N.D._, I. i. 70-72; II. ii. 162-163

[1778] rowed.

[1779] Q 2 prints ll. 117-120 as prose, but with initial capitals.

[1780] Qtos. _patient_.

[1781] So H. and E.; but Qtos. 'thy.'

[1782] Q 1, _cheesse_.

[1783] Q 2, After previous line.

[1784] Q 1, _to_.

[1785] Some word, or words, have dropt out here. The lines ought to be arranged thus:--

"God send ye both good speed!-- Gods Lord, my mother!--_Quickly_ stand aside, And closely too, least that you be espied." Dyce.

The missing foot before 'stand' may indicate the dramatic pause for surprise. See my _Appendix_ to _Greene_ (Metres).

[1786] Dy., H., E., 'forgot.'

[1787] Read, for the metre, "Shee is." Dyce.

[1788] Cf. _Romeo and Juliet_, Act III. v. 141.

[1789] Eds. 'Philip.'

[1790] Q 2, _Mather_.

[1791] Q 2, 'deny.'

[1792] Read, for the metre, "is it." Dyce.

[1793] Q 1, _mistrurst_.

[1794] Q. 2, _Mi Gou_.

[1795] So Qtos. Eds., 'confederate.' But the plural is idiomatic: as 'he has gone _partners_ with Philip.'

[1796] Occurs here in Qtos. (to warn the actors to be in readiness for coming on the stage). Dyce.

[1797] Q 2, 'to.'

[1798] Carfax (_quadrifurcus_), the centre of Oxford, at the junction of Cornmarket, St. Aldate's, Queen St., and the High.

[1799] Q 2, _Oppoint_.

[1800] fine.

[1801] Q 2, _offection_.

[1802] Q 2, _huge_.

[1803] _Sc._, self-willed.

[1804] A common proverbial expression: "_Beggars bush_," says Ray, "being a tree notoriously known, on the left hand of the London road from Huntington to Caxton." _Proverbs_, p. 244, ed. 1768. Dyce.

[1805] Q 2, _be dawbe._

[1806] refuse.

[1807] livery.

[1808] Common term for a small dagger, but, like 'bird-spit' in the next speech of Coomes, here used in contempt. Dyce.

[1809] The origin of this corrupted oath is unknown; Dy., H., and E. _N.E.D._ queries _dignesse_ = Goddes dignity. But the poet seems to be thinking of 'dine' = 'dinner'; hence Lord's meal, Lord's Supper. Cf. "God's board" for communion-table (Bk. Com. Prayer, 1549), and "God's bread" for the wafer, _G.G.N._, p. 219. That Coomes adopts this popular etymology is confirmed by the collocation of 'God's dines' with 'wafer-cake' (for the Eucharist) in Sc. xi. l. 206 of this play.

[1810] rabbit-warren.

[1811] horse.

[1812] 'an I.'

[1813] repent of his behaviour. Cf. Heywood, _If you know not_, etc., ed. 1874, I. 267 (Century). Dyce has "Nares (_Gloss_, in v.) mentions three places which still retain the name,--one between Oxford and Banbury, another close to Stafford, the third near Shrewsbury."

[1814] advice

[1815] So Q 2. Eds., 'an.'

[1816] Q 1, 'vpon.'

[1817] till.

[1818] E., Act IV. Sc. 1.

[1819] Q 2, _bother_.

[1820] A kind of net for catching rabbits,--usually stretched before their holes. Dyce.

[1821] Q 1, 'do.'

[1822] a young rabbit.

[1823] Q 1, 'you'r.'

[1824] Q 1, omits 'not'; but Q 2 is right: "Even if you won't speak I know you are lying in wait for me."

[1825] Qtos., _glimpes_.

[1826] exposed.

[1827] Q 1, _metamorphesie_. For the figure cf. _R. and J._, I. v., "Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear," etc.

[1828] Q 1, 'these.'

[1829] Q 1, _sbloud_.

[1830] nearer.

[1831] Not in Q 1.

[1832] The scene is therefore the grove where Sir Raph had engaged to await Will's return, Sc. vii.; not the warren, as E. has it.

[1833] E. mistakenly makes this 'Act IV. Sc. ii., _Another Part of the Warren_'; but Frank has run from the warren to the grove where Sir Raph is waiting for his bow.

[1834] Q 2, _bound_.

[1835] Q 2, _wouldn_.

[1836] So Q 2. Line wanting in Q 1.

[1837] Q 2 omits this line.

[1838] This stage-direction occurs after l. 75 in Qtos.

[1839] Qtos., _Sblould_.

[1840] Q 2, _clade_.

[1841] Q 1, _whench_.

[1842] Q 1, _asks_; Q 2, _aske_.

[1843] Q 1 omits.

[1844] Eds. substitute 'question,' evidently without sufficient reason.

[1845] Q 2 omits.

[1846] E. makes no new scene; but see Sc. X. l. 30.

[1847] goose. Q 1, _asgoe_.

[1848] Q 2, _Had_.

[1849] be wi're.

[1850] E. makes this 'Act IV., Sc. iii., _The Open Fields_'; but the present scene began with Philip's entry, forty-five lines earlier.

[1851] Of course 'mistress.'

[1852] Q 1, _clowdes_.

[1853] Not in Q 1.

[1854] Q 1, 'ho.'

[1855] Q 1, 'it.'

[1856] Q 1, _throwe_.

[1857] So Q 2. Eds. omit.

[1858] So Q 2. Q 1, 'for me.'

[1859] pent-house.

[1860] Q 1, _buze._

[1861] Q 1, 'stones.'

[1862] Q 1, 'should well.'

[1863] Q 1, "I haue had a Pumpe set vp, as good."

[1864] H. and E., 'lee-land.' But the context indicates 'lealand,' the open fields.

[1865] Perhaps he swore by our Lady of Walsingham,--in Norfolk. Dyce.

[1866] Whip-her-jenny: a game of cards. H.

[1867] Q 1, 'tripe-cheeke.'

[1868] Q 1, 'is _the_ best.'

[1869] "If I had only known in time!" Cf. _Secunda Pastorum_ (Towneley), l. 93.

[1870] Cf. _Secunda Pastorum_, l. 318.

[1871] Q 1, _his_.

[1872] So Qtos. H. and E. read 'dines.'

[1873] Qy. a proverbial allusion to the famous Brazen-head? Dyce.

[1874] See note, Sc. viii. l. 354.

[1875] H., 'Vintry.'

[1876] Q 1, _breath_.

[1877] Q 1 omits.

[1878] The hero of the popular German jest-book (_Eulenspiegel_), which was translated into English at a very early period; see Gifford's note on Jonson's _Works_, IV. 60, and Nare's _Gloss_. in V. Dyce.

[1879] Q 1, 'last': and 'lase.'

[1880] Q 1, 'silly.'

[1881] Q 1, 'shew.'

[1882] Q 2, _couriers_.

[1883] Q 2, _bandg._

[1884] By idiom 'bauble'; by sense 'babble.'

[1885] Q 2, _yon_.

[1886] Q 2, _swoses_.

[1887] random.

[1888] From the 'cunny greene' (see Sc. viii., end) having lost Nicholas and the torch _en route._ E. mistakenly includes this in the previous scene.

[1889] Qtos, _hap._

[1890] Q 2, 'out.'

[1891] spite.

[1892] The sham quarrel of Sc. xiv. l. 115.

[1893] So Q 2. Q 1 'a.'

[1894] Eds., 'foundst.'

[1895] Eds. omit.

[1896] Q 1, _tell_.

[1897] Blind-man's-buff.

[1898] Q 2 prints l. 105 as of fourteen syllables ending with "Hob man blind," and line 106 as of twelve syllables ending with "heere."

[1899] So Q 2. Q 1 omits.

[1900] E. makes this 'Act v., Sc. 1, _In the Fields_'; but Sir Raph frequents the grove, and Mall takes it in her flight across the fields from the cunny greene.

[1901] veil.

[1902] missed-way.

[1903] (I suppose) Buoys. Dyce.

[1904] So Qtos. Dy.: qy. 'fellow?' H. followed by E., "It is no envious fellow, out of grudge."

[1905] So Qtos. = 'why.' H. and E. read 'whe'er,' unnecessarily.

[1906] a deer lean and out of season. Dyce.

[1907] It has not seemed necessary to indicate that ll. 64, 65, 66-68, etc., constitute verses; so in nearly every scene.

[1908] Q 2, _oyure._

[1909] See note on _F. B._, i. 142.

[1910] Q 1, _wandring_.

[1911] So Dy. and other eds. Qtos., 'thy.'

[1912] E includes with preceding scene.

[1913] Dy., ''Tis.'

[1914] So Dy., etc., _i.e._ suffer. Qtos, _stole._

[1915] The order of ll. 20-21 is reversed in Q 2.

[1916] Q 1, _Being_.

[1917] Q 1, _enforc'st_.

[1918] Q 1, _same_.

[1919] spirit-dulling.

[1920] So Q 1. Q 2, _you_.

[1921] Q 1, _weere_.

[1922] Eds. divide line here.

[1923] So Q 2. Eds., 'women.'

[1924] Q 2, _it._

[1925] Qtos., _carerie_.

[1926] Q 1, 'shrowdly.'

[1927] So Dyce. Qtos. assign to Goursey. Perhaps Barnes lays his hand on Goursey who shakes it off. A scuffle appears to ensue: cf. ll. 161-163.

[1928] So Q 2. But Q 1, 'him,' which Dy., etc., for no sufficient reason prefer.

[1929] So Dy. Qtos., _be_.

[1930] Cf. _F.B._, viii. 75.

[1931] convince.

[1932] So Dy. Qtos., _mindes_.

[1933] So Q 1. Q 2 omits.