King Henry VI, part 1 Volume 2
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...in the folio. What imperfect transcript (for such the quarto has been called) ever produced such a variation? Malone. Yet I do find it so: for, to be plain, They, knowing dame Eleanor's aspiring humour, 'Have hired me to undermine the duchess, And buz these conjurations in her brain. They say, A crafty knave does need no broker; Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker. Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near To call them both--a pair of crafty knaves. Well, so it stands: And thus, I fear, at last, Hume's knavery, will be the duchess' wreck; And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall: Sort how it will,9 I shall have gold for all. Exit. SCENE III. The same. A Room in the Palace. Enter Peter, and Others, with Petitions. 'I Pet. My masters, let's stand close; my lord protector will come this way by and by, and then 'we may deliver our supplications in the quill.1 8 A crafty knave does need no broker f This is a proverbial sentence. See Ray's Collection. Steevens. 9 Sort how it will, Let the issue be what it will. Johnson. See Vol. XI. p. 132, n. 4i. This whole speech is very different in the original play. Instead of the last couplet we find these lines: "But whist, Sir John; no more of that I trow, "For fear you lose your head, before you go." Malone. 1 in the quill. In quill is Sir Thomas Hanmer'g reading; the rest have--in the quill. Johnson. Perhaps our supplications in the quill, or in quill, means no '2 Pet. Marry, the Lord protect him, for he's a good man! Jesu bless him! Enter Suffolk, and Queen Margaret. 1 Pet. Here 'a comes, methinks, and the queen with him: I'll be the first, sure. '2 Pet. Come back, fool; this is the duke of 4 Suffolk, and not my lord protector. 'Suf. How now, fellow? would'st any thing with me? 1 Pet. I pray...
King Henry VI, part 1 Volume 2 William Shakespeare
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...in the folio. What imperfect transcript (for such the quarto has been called) ever produced such a variation? Malone. Yet I do find it so: for, to be plain, They, knowing dame Eleanor's aspiring humour, 'Have hired me to undermine the duchess, And buz these conjurations in her brain. They say, A crafty knave does need no broker; Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker. Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near To call them both--a pair of crafty knaves. Well, so it stands: And thus, I fear, at last, Hume's knavery, will be the duchess' wreck; And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall: Sort how it will,9 I shall have gold for all. Exit. SCENE III. The same. A Room in the Palace. Enter Peter, and Others, with Petitions. 'I Pet. My masters, let's stand close; my lord protector will come this way by and by, and then 'we may deliver our supplications in the quill.1 8 A crafty knave does need no broker f This is a proverbial sentence. See Ray's Collection. Steevens. 9 Sort how it will, Let the issue be what it will. Johnson. See Vol. XI. p. 132, n. 4i. This whole speech is very different in the original play. Instead of the last couplet we find these lines: "But whist, Sir John; no more of that I trow, "For fear you lose your head, before you go." Malone. 1 in the quill. In quill is Sir Thomas Hanmer'g reading; the rest have--in the quill. Johnson. Perhaps our supplications in the quill, or in quill, means no '2 Pet. Marry, the Lord protect him, for he's a good man! Jesu bless him! Enter Suffolk, and Queen Margaret. 1 Pet. Here 'a comes, methinks, and the queen with him: I'll be the first, sure. '2 Pet. Come back, fool; this is the duke of 4 Suffolk, and not my lord protector. 'Suf. How now, fellow? would'st any thing with me? 1 Pet. I pray...