Note 142 — ACT III.
Reading edition
[Old copies, when? and this reading was defended by Gifford and Collier. The present was Dodsley's correction. The old reading is, however, supported to some extent by a passage in the "History of Jacob and Esau," 1568, i. 1—
"But up, Ragan! up, drowsy hogshead, I say: Why, when? will it not be? Up, I come anon. Up, or I shall raise you, in faith, ye drowsy whoreson! Why, when?"]