King Henry V - Parallel Texts of the First Quarto (1600) and First Folio (1623) Editions

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KING HENRY PARALLEL TEXTS OF THE FIRST QUARTO 1600 AND FIRST FOLIO 1623 EDITIONS. LDITED BY DR B. NICHOLSON IrlH an cEntiobtidiou P. A. DANIEL PUBLISHT FOR BY N. TRUBNER CO, 57, 59, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E. C., 1877 II. fflff. 9 CLAY AND TAY10H. UtTNGAT. INTRODUCTION The Life of Henry the Fiji INTRODUCTION. IN submitting this work to the members of the New Shakspere Scrciety, it is desnable that I should state how I came to be engaged on it, and for what share in it I am responsible It was commenced by Dr Brinsley Nicholson, under whose super vision the reprints of the ist Q. and it t F editions of the play were issued to the Society in 1875 The present work was then taken in hand, the texts arranged, , and elaborate collations of the several quarto and folio editions made Proofs of the first few pages were actually prepared by the printer in Januaiy 1876, when illness compelled Dr Nicholson to suspend his labours In the mean time it will be understood that the type which had been set up for the simple reprints of the texts had still to remain in its foims awaiting ie-arraiigement for this edition, and was therefore unavailable for the geneial woik of the printing-office In November last it became a question, in which both the economy of the Society and tlie convenience of the punter were concerned., whether the work on which so much loving care and labour had been expended was to be abandoned, or whether it could be earned to completion by another hand In tins emergency, and encouraged thereto by our Director, Mr Fmnivall, I volunteered my services. The whole body of the work and the maigmal notmgs are distinctly the work of Dr Nicholson but I must add that for any short-comings inthem, the responsibility must fall on my shoulders In his hands the marginal notes would have been very much more minute than they now are Unfortunately, although he had accumulated materials, he had not completed their arrangement, and not ieelmg my ability to carry out his intentions to their full extent, I found myself compelled to sacrifice much that was already prepared. I, believe, however, that everything essential to the study of the texts will be found in its place, but shoxild it hereafter appear desnable to give additional fulness to the work, it is to be hoped that Dr Nicholson may himself supplement my deficiencies. In this edition the text of the folio is printed, line for line, as in the original Each, page piesents half a column of the folio the number ot the page and column being noted within brackets on the left hand of the text, at top The Acts, Scenes, and lines are also numbered on the left hand In the Q page the Acts, Scenes, and lines are numbered on the right hand of the text. It must be borne in mind that the scenes of the Q are numbered to correspond with those of the F thus the Q, not having any scene corresponding with Sc. i of vi The Life of Hem y the Fi t. INTRODUCTION F its first scene is numbered II to agree with the F and in one place Act IV Sc iv. v for the same reason, the order of the two scenes in the Q has been reversed The lines of the Q. text are in the sequence of the original, but the text itself is neces sarily much broken tip in order to bring its several parts a nearly as possible in apposition with the corresponding passages of the F text The end of each page of the Q. is indicated by the printing within biackets of the signatures of theoriginal edition thus at page 14, 20 A a signifies that line 20 of the text ends page A 2 of the Q., and so throughout In some places the latter half of a line of the Q, text has been dropped in order to make it correspond with the F thus on page 14, line 6 has been printed, Kmg Shuie we thank you. And good my Lord pioceed to correspond with lines 10 u of F text Again, and for the same reason, two lines of the Q are printed as one, the division being thus marked, as in page 18, lines 67-8, Noble Loid stand for your owne, Vnwmde your bloody flagge In the 3rd Q...