List of Doubtful and Irregular Readings.
Reading edition
The play, evidently printed from a much altered and probably illegible manuscript, abounds in errors of every description. The following list is confined to such readings as are to some extent doubtful in the original and to a few literal misprints which might otherwise perhaps be thought due to the reprint. No irregularities recorded by previous editors are included. No variations of any importance have been found between the two copies collated.
3plac’st
36deele
65because
88Idy
109mifled
120Attus
203choyseff (ff broken, read choysest)
316drie (? read dire)
323c.w. X. of S.
334Beheld Venns
373moaths
440autthoritie
482bettet,
493Steu.
611Os
618Ba.
643part,
646theworld,
648weele (perhaps we ele)
655Simi Ranus,
661Simeranus,
675king,
691wrethednesse:
702eate.
742loure,
757louer
765letter.
784hath
801what
834doo shifting,
880Ateu. (perhaps Ate u.)
918denoũced, it
983same.)
988to ... too
996nye. (perhaps ny e.)
1019consider
1026tryees
1028step (perhaps ste p)
1030becauso
1045sings.
1048loue
1078ean (e not absolutely certain, read can)
1094Bur
1159Thon
1163Exennt.
1175the
1183thee
1190Slip. (there is a faint trace of the i in the Dyce copy only)
1192Sip.
1205viutnerd (original viutnerd)
1213Guatoes
1268thon (original thon)
1279(fe-)re ie. (space not certain)
1292the (perhaps th e)
1294your (perhaps y our)
1324bettet
1332yout
1355esteemd, (original esteemd‘)
1367ic pour. Yea
1370mee,
1378woman, (comma not quite certain)
1398Court,,
1399stricknesse
1405mstaled:
1411preuention you (original preuent ion you)
1423Nauo.
1424shildish
1433appooued
1449displac’ff, (ff broken, read displac’st,)
1451Auteukin,
1464bnt speakie
1497are
1504Mistresle
1511you, drawe a
1546Exeuut.
1607Prepare (cf. c.w.)
1621Hart,
1626(indentation doubtful)
1626, 1627Deiu,
1637(speaker’s name omitted) ditte
1644tout, vn
1646fllattering
1681thee Shoo-maker.
1702progenators Cutler.
1706edge,
1713a (failed to print in the B.M. copy)
1720Ohn, o (read Oh, no)
1763thing:
1777fals
1789strumpet, ta Matressa
1790foy
1791me
1796morglay,
1799soule, (the comma failed to print in the Dyce copy)
1801stay.
1803Ie meu
1845alreadle
1848For
1863alosse,
1897on
1908missed, (ss broken, read misled,)
1917ouerthtow.
1924slrange (read strange)
1990wartes:
1993Dambac
2000slaine. (sl not quite certain, possibly broken ss)
2002but
2007Doro,
2019effate: (ff broken, read estate:)
2024but on the (perhaps buton th e)
2037Nana,
2060fontre
2092purschase
2101place (read plow)
2113Lyon, (king
2114slaine? (sl not certain, perhaps broken ss)
2142Exeunt, (original Exeunt, or Fxeunt, apparently the latter, but the letter may be a broken E)
2144state, (so the Dyce copy, the B.M. copy apparently has a full point, but this is probably a broken comma)
2162sect,
2166countriees (first e not quite certain, possibly c)
2169toexcept:
2182greatmens
2189guise, (perhaps gu ise,)
2204warre?
2215summonies
2241ofcontention:
2254true, .Exeun.. (what appears like a full point after the n may be the remains of a very broken t)
2260sarre Twearde.
2283mistresse:
2294-5he ... she
2300Alhough
2310Qeene,
2331change,
2355these (perhaps th ese)
2370wasmisled, (sl not quite certain, possibly broken ss)
2383K. of S. (apparently S: in the B.M. copy, but the upper dot is accidental)
2424(indentation doubtful)
2426for (perhaps fo r)
2438ttumpets
2443Cutber tohis
2463Scortish
2509missed: (ss broken, read misled:)
2522Thou (original Thou)
2540our (perhaps ou r)
2545ffaies, (ff broken, read staies,)
2547reeoncile
2562Auteukin,
2579when,
In ll. 1062, 1090 the speaker’s name is given as ‘8. Atten.’ Whatever this may be meant for it is clear that the speeches belong to the Bishop of St. Andrews. In ll. 2015-6 a complicated error has occurred, the ‘e’ of ‘her’ in the lower line having worked its way up into an accidental space after the ‘d’ of ‘and’ in the upper.