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Title: The Works of William Shakespeare - Cambridge Edition (4 of 9) (1863)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: William George Clark
John Glover

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THE WORKS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

THE WORKS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

EDITED BY

WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.

FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;

AND WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A.

LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

VOLUME IV

Cambridge and London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.

1864.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

The Preface
vii

King John
3

Notes to King John
97

King Richard II.
109

Notes to King Richard II.
223

The First Part of King Henry IV.
233

Notes to The First Part of King Henry IV.
351

The Second Part of King Henry IV.
361

Notes to The Second Part of King Henry IV.
481

King Henry V.
491

Notes to King Henry V.
607

The Chronicle Historie of Henry the Fift &c.
615

PREFACE.

I . Shakespeare's King John was printed for the first time in the Folio of 1623. The poet adopted most of the
characters, the general plot, and occasional lines, or fragments of lines, from an earlier play, in two parts, published in
1591, with the following title-page:
The | Troublesome Raigne | of Iohn King of England, with the dis-|couerie of King Richard Cordelions | Base sonne
(vulgarly named, The Ba-|stard Fawconbridge): also the | death of King Iohn at Swinstead | Abbey. | As it was
(sundry times) publikely acted by the | Queenes Maiesties Players, in the ho-|nourable Citie of London. |
Imprinted at London for Sampson Clarke, | and are to be solde at his shop, on the backe-|side of the Royall
Exchange. | 1591. |
This play was reprinted for a different bookseller in 1611, with the words 'W. Sh.' added to the title; and a third edition
in 1622, again issued by a different bookseller, has 'W. Shakespeare.'
There can be little doubt that the booksellers attributed the play to Shakespeare in the hope that so popular a name
might help the sale, for although the earlier play is by no means devoid of merit, the evidence of its style conclusively
proves that Shakespeare had no part in the authorship. We have therefore not reprinted it, but contented ourselves with
indicating the passages borrowed verbally from it.
2. Of Richard II. four editions in Quarto were published before the appearance of the first Folio:
Q1. The | Tragedie of King Ri-|chard the se-|cond. | As it hath beene publikely acted | by the right Honourable the |
Lorde Chamberlaine his Ser'uants. | London | Printed by Valentine Simmes for Andrew Wise, and | are to be sold at
his shop in Paules church yard at | the signe of the Angel. | 1597. |
Q2. The | Tragedie of King Ri-|chard the second. | As it hath beene publikely acted by the Right Ho-|nourable the Lord
Chamberlaine his | seruants. | By William Shake-speare. | London | Printed by Valentine Simmes for Andrew Wise,
and | are to be sold at his shop in Paules churchyard at | the signe of the Angel. | 1598. |
Q3. The | Tragedie of King | Richard the second. | As it hath been publikely acted by the Right | Honourable the Lord
Chamberlaine | his seruantes. | By William Shake-speare. | London, | Printed by W. W. for Mathew Law, and are to
be | sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, at | the signe of the Foxe. | 1608. |
The same edition was also issued in the same year with the following title-page:
The | Tragedie of King | Richard the Second: | With new additions of the Parlia-|ment Sceane, and the deposing | of
King Richard, | As it hath been lately acted by the Kinges | Maiesties seruantes, at the Globe. | By William Shake-
speare. | At London, | Printed by W. W. for Mathew Law, and are to | be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, | at
the signe of the Foxe. | 1608. |
Q4. The | Tragedie of King | Richard the Se-|cond: | With new additions of the Parliament Sceane, | and the
deposing of King | Richard. | As it hath been lately acted by the Kinges | Maiesties seruants, at the Globe. | By William
Shake-speare. | At London, | Printed for Mathew Law, and are to be sold | at his shop in Paules Church-yard, at the |
signe of the Foxe. | 1615. |
Each of these Quartos was printed from its immediate predecessor. The third however contains an important addition,
found in all the extant copies of Q3, amounting to 165 lines, viz. IV. 1. 154-318. This is what is meant by 'the new
additions of the Parliament scene' mentioned in the title-pages of some copies of Q3 and in that of Q4. These 'new
additions' are found also in the first and following Folios and in Q5. The play, as given in the first Folio, was no doubt
printed from a copy of Q4, corrected with some care and prepared for stage representation. Several passages have
been left out with a view of shortening the performance. In the 'new additions of the Parliament Scene' it would appear
that the defective text of the Quarto had been corrected from the author's MS. For this part therefore the first Folio is
our highest authority: for all the rest of the play the first Quarto affords the best text.
The fifth Quarto (Q5) was printed from the second Folio (F2), but its readings sometimes agree with one or other of the
earlier Quartos, and in a few cases are entirely independent of previous editions. Its title-page is as follows:
The | Life and | Death of King | Richard the | Second. | With new Additions of the | Parliament Scene, and the |
Deposing of King Richard. | As it hath beene acted by the Kings Majesties | Servants, at the Globe. | By William
Shakespeare. | London, Printed by Iohn Norton. | 1634. |

3. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth appeared in six successive Quarto editions before the publication of the first
Folio. The title-pages of the first five of these editions are given in full below. The version in the first Folio seems to have
been printed from a partially corrected copy of the fifth Quarto. In many places the readings coincide with those of the
earlier Quartos, which were probably consulted by the corrector. The title of the play in the Folio is, 'The First Part of
Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed Hotspurre.' As there is no copy of the fourth Quarto in

the Capell collection, our collation has been made from the copy in the Bodleian, and verified by that in the Devonshire
Library. The deficiencies of Capell's copy of the third Quarto have been supplied by a collation of the Bodleian copy of
that edition.
Q1. The | History of | Henrie the | Fovrth; | With the battell at Shrewsburie, | betweene the King and Lord | Henry
Percy, surnamed | Henrie Hotspur of | the North. | With the humorous conceits of Sir | Iohn Falstalffe. | AT
LONDON, | Printed by P. S. for Andrew Wise, dwelling | in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of | the Angell. 1598. |
Q2. The | History of | Henrie the | Fovrth; | With the battell at Shrewsburie, | betweene the King and Lord Henry |
Percy, surnamed Henry Hot-|spur of the North. | With the humorous conceits of Sir | Iohn Falstalffe. | Newly
corrected by W. Shakespeare. | AT LONDON, | Printed by S. S. for Andrew Wise, dwelling | in Paules Churchyard,
at the signe of | the Angell. 1599. |
Q3. The | History of | Henrie the fourth, | With the battell at Shrewsburie, | betweene the King, and Lord | Henry
Percy, surnamed Henry Hot-|spur of the North. | With the humorous conceits of Sir | Iohn Falstaffe. | Newly
corrected by W. Shakespeare. | London | Printed by Valentine Simmes, for Mathew Law, and | are to be solde at his
shop in Paules Churchyard, | at the signe of the Fox. | 1604. |
Q4. The | History of | Henry the fourth, | With the battell at Shrewseburie, | betweene the King, and Lord | Henry
Percy, surnamed Henry | Hotspur of the North. | With the humorous conceites of Sir | Iohn Falstalffe. | Newly
corrected by W. Shake-speare. | London, | Printed for Mathew Law, and are to be sold at | his shop in Paules
Church-yard, neere vnto S. | Augustines gate, at the signe of | the Foxe. 1608. |
Q5. The | History of | Henrie the fourth, | With the Battell at Shrewseburie, betweene | the King, and Lord Henrie
Percy, sur-| named Henrie Hotspur of the North. | With the humorous conceites of Sir | Iohn Falstaffe. | Newly
corrected by W. Shakespeare. | London, | Printed by W. W. for Mathew Law, and are to be sold | at his shop in
Paules Church-yard, neere vnto S. | Augustines Gate, at the signe of the Foxe. | 1613. |
Subsequent editions in Quarto were printed in 1622 (Q6) by T. P. for Mathew Law, in 1632 (Q7) by John Norton for
William Sheares, and in 1639 (Q8) by John Norton for Hugh Perry. In all these the title-page is substantially the same.
Each Quarto appears to have been printed from its predecessor.
The 'Dering MS.' quoted in our foot-notes was discovered in the muniment room at Surrenden by the Rev. Lambert B.
Larking in 1844, and published in the following year for the Shakespeare Society under the editorship of Mr Halliwell.
It contains a large portion of the First Part of Henry IV. and some scenes of the Second Part. Mr Halliwell believes it to
have been written in the early part of the 17th century, certainly earlier than 1640, for the purpose of private theatrical
performance. Some additions and corrections were made by the hand of 'Sir Edward Deryng, the first baronet, who
died in 1644.' (Introduction, p. xii. ed. 1845.)
We are of opinion that this MS. was copied from the fifth Quarto of the First Part, and from a complete Quarto of the
Second Part. The writer seems to have been both illiterate and careless. His punctuation is singularly bad, and his
spelling peculiar to himself. We have noticed such various readings as seemed in any way remarkable.

4. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth was first published in Quarto in 1600 with the following title-page:
The | Second part of Henrie | the fourth, continuing to his death, | and coronation of Henrie | the fift. | With the
humours of sir Iohn Fal-| staffe, and swaggering | Pistoll. | As it hath been sundrie times publikely | acted by the
right honourable, the Lord | Chamberlaine his seruants. | Written by William Shakespeare. | London | Printed by V. S.
for Andrew Wise, and | William Aspley. | 1600. |
In some copies of the Quarto the first scene of Act III. is left out altogether. The omission seems to have been
discovered after part of the edition had been struck off and rectified by the insertion of two new leaves. In order to
make this insertion, the type was taken to pieces in part of the preceding and subsequent leaves, so that there are two
different impressions for the latter part of Act II. and the beginning of Act III. Sc. 2. Where this difference occurs we
have used the symbols Q1, and Q2; where the two are identical we use only Q.

The version in the first Folio was probably printed from a transcript of the original MS. It contains passages of
considerable length which are not found in the Quarto. Some of these are among the finest in the play, and are too
closely connected with the context to allow of the supposition that they were later additions inserted by the author after
the publication of the Quarto. In the MS. from which that edition was printed, these passages had been most likely
omitted, or erased, in order to shorten the play for the stage. The Folio in other places affords occasional readings
which seem preferable to those of the Quarto, but for the most part the Quarto is to be regarded as having the higher
critical value.

5. King Henry the Fifth appears in its present form for the first time in the Folio of 1623. An imperfect edition in quarto
was printed surreptitiously in 1600, with the following title:

(Q1). The | Cronicle | History of Henry the fift, | With his battell fought at Agin Court in | France. Togither with
Auntient | Pistoll. | As it hath bene sundry times playd by the Right honorable | the Lord Chamberlaine his
seruants. | London Printed by Thomas Creede, for Tho. Milling-|ton, and Iohn Busby. And are to be | sold at his
house in Carter Lane, next | the Powle head. 1600. |
The text of this edition is given literatim at the end of the present volume, with the readings of two reprints which
appeared in 1602 and 1608 respectively. The title-pages of these are as follows:
(Q2). The | Chronicle | History of Henry the fift, | With his battell fought at Agin Court | in France. Together with
Auntient | Pistoll. | As it hath bene sundry times playd by the Right honorable | the Lord Chamberlaine his
seruants. | London | Printed by Thomas Creede, for Thomas | Pauier, and are to be sold at his shop in Cornhill, | at the
signe of the Cat and Parrets neare | the Exchange. 1602. |
Q3. The | Chronicle History | of Henry the fift, with his | battell fought at Agin Court in | France. Together with
an-|cient Pistoll. | As it hath bene sundry times playd by the Right Honou-|rable the Lord Chamberlaine his |
Seruants. | Printed for T. P. 1608. |
The text of these Quarto editions is so imperfect and varies so much from the more authentic text of the Folio, that it
was impossible to give the variations in our foot-notes. We are inclined to agree with Mr Collier and others in the
supposition that the Quarto text was 'hastily made up from notes taken at the theatre during the performance,
subsequently patched together.' The references to these Quartos are inclosed in brackets in accordance with the rule
mentioned in the Preface to Vol. I. p. xxi.
It is scarcely necessary to add that 'The famous Victories of Henry the Fift,' published in 1617, has nothing to do with
Shakespeare's play.

We have the pleasure of adding several new names to the list of our benefactors. Miss Thackeray, of Windsor, has
been so kind as to lend us a copy of Nares's Glossary which belonged to her late father, the Provost of King's College,
Cambridge, and is copiously annotated in his hand.
Mr Henry Wilbraham has obtained for us the loan of some valuable MS. notes on Shakespeare, compiled by the late
Mr Roger Wilbraham, F.R.S., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, and now in the possession of Mr George Fortescue
Wilbraham of Delamere House, Cheshire.
Dr C. M. Ingleby and Mr G. R. French have sent us valuable communications, the former with reference to difficulties
in the text, the latter with reference to points of history and genealogy.
We are also indebted for various acts of kindness and courtesy to the Marquis Camden, the Rev. T. S. Woollaston, the
Rev. Lambert B. Larking, the Rev. Archibald Clerke of Kilmallie, Mr Stirling of Keir, Mr Pryme, Mr W. B. Donne, Mr
P. S. Worsley, Professor Goldwin Smith, the Rev. H. O. Coxe, Librarian of the Bodleian, Mr C. Wright, and the late
Mr George Daniell.

W. G. C.
W. A. W.

ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA.

King John.

III. 1. 69.
Add note, his owner] dishonour Bullock conj.

III. 1. 209.
Note, for new betrimmed read new untamed or new betrimmed.

IV. 2. 63.
Add note, you] you'd Keightley conj.

IV. 3. 54.
Add to note, sin of time's Keightley conj.

V. 2. 30.
Note, for Dyce conj. read S. Walker conj.

V. 7. 108.
Add to note, give thanks to you Keightley conj.

King Richard II.

I. 2. 12.
Note, for Q1 Q2 read Q1 Q2 Ff.

I. 3. 153.
Note, for Anon. read Seymour.

II. 3. 95.
Add note, ostentation of despised] ostentation's undisguised Bullock conj.

First Part of Henry IV.

I. 2. 175, 176.
Add note, two ... third] three ... fourth Farmer conj. MS.

II. 2. 41.
Add note, garters] garter Farmer conj. MS.

Second Part of Henry IV.

I. 1. 141.
Add note, buckle] knuckle Bailey conj.

I. 3. 51.
Add note, and] draw or and draw Keightley conj.

I. 3. 60.
Add note, cost] house Keightley conj.

I. 3. 101, 102.
Add note, They ... Are] Thou Art Keightley conj.

II. 4. 331, 346.
Notes, for Q read Qq.

Henry V.

I. 2. 270.
Add to note, thence Keightley conj.

I. 2. 274.
Add note, my sail] my full or me full Keightley conj.

II. Chorus, 41.
Add to note, But, ere ... come Keightley conj.

II. 1. 42.
Add note, off] off now Keightley conj.

THE LIFE AND DEATH

OF

KING JOHN.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[A].

King John.
Prince Henry, son to the king.
Arthur, Duke of Bretagne, nephew to the king.
The Earl of Pembroke.
The Earl of Essex.
The Earl of Salisbury.
The Lord Bigot.
Hubert De Burgh.
Robert Faulconbridge, son to Sir Robert Faulconbridge.
Philip the Bastard, his half-brother.
James Gurney, servant to Lady Faulconbridge.
Peter of Pomfret, a prophet.
Philip, King of France.
Lewis, the Dauphin.
Lymoges, Duke of Austria.
Cardinal Pandulph, the Pope's legate.
Melun, a French lord.
Chatillon, ambassador from France to King John.
Queen Elinor, mother to King John.
Constance, mother to Arthur.
Blanch of Spain, niece to King John.
Lady Faulconbridge.

Lords, Citizens of Angiers, Sheriff, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.

Scene: Partly in England, and partly in France[B].

First given by Rowe. See note (I).

Scene ...] See note (II).

THE LIFE AND DEATH

OF

KING JOHN.

[A]

[B]

ACT I.

Scene I. King John's palace.

Enter King John, Queen Elinor, Pembroke, Essex, Salisbury, and others, with Chatillon.[1]

K. John. Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with
us?

Chat. Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France
In my behaviour to the majesty,
The borrowed majesty, of England here.[2]

Eli. A strange beginning: 'borrowed majesty!'[2]

K. John. Silence, good mother; hear the embassy.

Chat. Philip of France, in right and true behalf
Of thy deceased brother Geffrey's son,[3]

Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim[4]
To this fair island and the territories,
To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,[5]
Desiring thee to lay aside the sword
Which sways usurpingly these several titles,
And put the same into young Arthur's hand,
Thy nephew and right royal sovereign.

K. John. What follows if we disallow of this?

Chat. The proud control of fierce and bloody war,
To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld.

K. John. Here have we war for war and blood for blood,
Controlment for controlment: so answer France.[6]

Chat. Then take my king's defiance from my mouth,
The farthest limit of my embassy.

K. John. Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace:
Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France;
For ere thou canst report I will be there,[7]
The thunder of my cannon shall be heard:
So hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath
And sullen presage of your own decay.[8]
An honourable conduct let him have:
Pembroke, look to't. Farewell, Chatillon.[9]

[Exeunt Chatillon and Pembroke.

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Eli. What now, my son! have I not ever said
How that ambitious Constance would not cease
Till she had kindled France and all the world,
Upon the right and party of her son?
This might have been prevented and made whole
With very easy arguments of love,
Which now the manage of two kingdoms must[10]
With fearful bloody issue arbitrate.

K. John. Our strong possession and our right for us.

Eli. Your strong possession much more than your right,
Or else it must go wrong with you and me:
So much my conscience whispers in your ear,
Which none but heaven and you and I shall hear.

Enter a Sheriff.[11]

Essex. My liege, here is the strangest controversy
Come from the country to be judged by you,
That e'er I heard: shall I produce the men?

K. John. Let them approach.
Our abbeys and our priories shall pay
This expedition's charge.

Enter Robert Faulconbridge, and Philip his bastard brother.[12]

What men are you?

Bast. Your faithful subject I, a gentleman[13]
Born in Northamptonshire and eldest son,
As I suppose, to Robert Faulconbridge,[14]
A soldier, by the honour-giving hand
Of Cœur-de-lion knighted in the field.[15]

K. John. What art thou?[16]

Rob. The son and heir to that same Faulconbridge.

K. John. Is that the elder, and art thou the heir?
You came not of one mother then, it seems.

Bast. Most certain of one mother, mighty king;
That is well known; and, as I think, one father:
But for the certain knowledge of that truth
I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother:
Of that I doubt, as all men's children may.

Eli. Out on thee, rude man! thou dost shame thy mother
And wound her honour with this diffidence.

Bast. I, madam? no, I have no reason for it;
That is my brother's plea and none of mine;
The which if he can prove, a' pops me out[17]
At least from fair five hundred pound a year:
Heaven guard my mother's honour and my land!

K. John. A good blunt fellow. Why, being younger born,
Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?

Bast. I know not why, except to get the land.
But once he slander'd me with bastardy:
But whether I be as true begot or no,[18]
That still I lay upon my mother's head;

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But that I am as well begot, my liege,—
Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me!—
Compare our faces and be judge yourself.[19]
If old Sir Robert did beget us both
And were our father and this son like him,[20]
O old Sir Robert, father, on my knee
I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee!

K. John. Why, what a madcap hath heaven lent us here![21]

Eli. He hath a trick of Cœur-de-lion's face;[22]
The accent of his tongue affecteth him.
Do you not read some tokens of my son
In the large composition of this man?

K. John. Mine eye hath well examined his parts
And finds them perfect Richard. Sirrah, speak,
What doth move you to claim your brother's land?

Bast. Because he hath a half-face, like my father.[23]

With half that face would he have all my land:[23][24]

A half-faced groat five hundred pound a year![23]

Rob. My gracious liege, when that my father lived,
Your brother did employ my father much,—

Bast. Well, sir, by this you cannot get my land:
Your tale must be how he employ'd my mother.

Rob. And once dispatch'd him in an embassy
To Germany, there with the emperor
To treat of high affairs touching that time.
The advantage of his absence took the king
And in the mean time sojourn'd at my father's;
Where how he did prevail I shame to speak,
But truth is truth: large lengths of seas and shores[25]
Between my father and my mother lay,
As I have heard my father speak himself,
When this same lusty gentleman was got.
Upon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd
His lands to me, and took it on his death[26]
That this my mother's son was none of his;
And if he were, he came into the world[27]
Full fourteen weeks before the course of time.
Then, good my liege, let me have what is mine,
My father's land, as was my father's will.

K. John. Sirrah, your brother is legitimate;
Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him,
And if she did play false, the fault was hers;
Which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands[28]
That marry wives. Tell me, how if my brother,
Who, as you say, took pains to get this son,
Had of your father claim'd this son for his?
In sooth, good friend, your father might have kept
This calf bred from his cow from all the world;
In sooth he might; then, if he were my brother's,
My brother might not claim him; nor your father,
Being none of his, refuse him: this concludes;
My mother's son did get your father's heir;
Your father's heir must have your father's land.

Rob. Shall then my father's will be of no force
To dispossess that child which is not his?

Bast. Of no more force to dispossess me, sir,

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