77: _thank_] _love_ Farmer conj. MS.
80: _Cotsall_ F1 Q3.] _Cotsale_ F2 F3 F4.
82-84: _Slen ... dog_] _Shall. You"ll ... confess._ Slen. _That ... not._ Shall. _"Tis ... dog._ Farmer conj. MS.
98: SCENE III. Pope.
99: _king_] _council_ (Q1 Q2) Warburton.
102: _daughter?_] F1 Q3 F2 F3. _daughter._ (Q1 Q2) F4.
106, 107: _council ... counsel_] _councell ... counsell_ (Q1 Q2).
_councell ... councill_ F1 Q3 F2. _council ... counsell_ F3.
_council ... councel_ F4.
107, 108: _you if ... you"ll_] _you: if it were known in council, you"ll_ Harness (Johnson conj.).
107: _known_] _not known_ Pope.
114: _Pistol._] _Pistol; they carried me to the tavern and made me drunk, and afterward picked my pocket._ Malone (from Q1 Q2).
See note (III).
119-120: _pauca, pauca ... humour_] Evans. _Pauca, pauca._ Nym. _Slice ... humour._ Farmer conj.
126: _three_] _third_ Pope.
127: _Garter_] Q3. _Gater_ Ff.
131: _discreetly_] _discretions_ Pope.
146: _latten_] _laten_ (Q1 Q3). latine Ff Q3.
_latten bilbo._] _latten. Bilbo!_ Becket conj.
147: _thy labras here_] _my labras hear_ Johnson conj.
150: _avised_] _advis"d_ F4.
151: _the nuthook"s humour_] _the base humour_ Pope.
_bace humors_ (Q1 Q2).
160: _fap_] _sap_ A. A. conj. _vap_ Boys conj.
161: _careires_] _car-eires_ Ff Q3. _careeres_ Capell.
171: [Exit A. P.] Theobald.
175: [Kisses her.] Pope.
179: SCENE IV. Pope.
186: _Michaelmas_] _Martlemas_ Theobald.
188: _this, coz_] _this_ Q3.
192: _that that_] _that_ F3 F4.
209: _mouth_] _mind_ Pope.
210: _carry_] F1 Q3. _marry_ F2 F3 F4.
216: _carry her_] _carry-her_ F1 Q3 F2 F3. _carre-her_ F4.
228: _contempt_] Theobald. _content_ Ff Q3.
230: _fall_] Ff Q3. _faul"_ Hanmer. _fault_ Collier. _fall"_ Singer.
_faul_ Dyce.
234: _hanged_] _hang"_ F2 F3 F4.
236: SCENE V. Pope.
249: _beholding_] _beholden_ Pope.
251: _like_] om. F2 F3 F4.
275: _I"ll eat_] _I chuse to eat_ Hanmer.
SCENE II. _The same._
_Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE._
_Evans._ Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius" house which is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly, which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer.
_Sim._ Well, sir. 5
_Evans._ Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it is a "oman that altogether"s acquaintance with Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire and require her to solicit your master"s desires to Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will make an end of my dinner; 10 there"s pippins and cheese to come. [_Exeunt._
NOTES: I, 2
SCENE II.] SCENE VI. Pope.
The same.] Capell. An outer room in Page"s house. Dyce.
3: _dry_] _try_ (Q1 Q2) Dyce.
4: _wringer_] Theobald. _Ringer_ Ff Q3.
11: _cheese_] _seese_ Dyce.
SCENE III. _A room in the Garter Inn._
_Enter FALSTAFF, Host, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, and ROBIN._
_Fal._ Mine host of the Garter!
_Host._ What says my bully-rook? speak scholarly and wisely.
_Fal._ Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my followers. 5
_Host._ Discard, bully Hercules; cashier: let them wag; trot, trot.
_Fal._ I sit at ten pounds a week.
_Host._ Thou"rt an emperor, Caesar, Keisar, and Pheezar.
I will entertain Bardolph; he shall draw, he shall tap: said 10 I well, bully Hector?
_Fal._ Do so, good mine host.
_Host._ I have spoke; let him follow. [_To Bard._] Let me see thee froth and lime: I am at a word; follow. [_Exit._
_Fal._ Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade: 15 an old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered serving-man a fresh tapster. Go; adieu.
_Bard._ It is a life that I have desired: I will thrive.
_Pist._ O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?
[_Exit Bardolph._ 20
_Nym._ He was gotten in drink: is not the humour conceited?
_Fal._ I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-box: his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful singer; he kept not time. 25
_Nym._ The good humour is to steal at a minute"s rest.
_Pist._ "Convey," the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase!