A WIFE FOR A MONTH.
A = First Folio. B = Second Folio.
- p. [1], ll. 3 ff. Not in A.
- p. [2], l. 22. A] Ex. Lords.
- p. [4], l. 23. B misprints] Your are.
- p. [7], l. 33. A here and sometimes elsewhere prints Mar. for Queen.
- p. [9], l. 24. A] God.
- l. 25. A] name him.
- l. 35. A comma has been taken away after Princess.
- p. [10], l. 18. A omits] and Podramo.
- l. 19. A. prints Pod. for Cam.
- l\. 26. A] mothers.
- p. [11], l. 12. A] feeles.
- l. 24. A] eyes.
- l. 36. A] had.
- p. [12], l. 12. A] At their.
- l. 34. A] all on.
- p. [13], l. 30. A] whipt there.
- p. [15], l. 29. A punctuates] him in death,
- p. [19], l. 18. A] vertues.
- p. [20], l. 1. A] conceive she has you.
- l. 31. A] dead on's.
- p. [22], l. 24. B] Cassander.
- l. 25. A] calls.
- l. 26. A] carin'd.
- p. [23], l. 1. A] a thy.
- p. [24], l. 1. A] Beside ... soules.
- l. 17. A] wings to our.
- l. 35. A] A the.
- p. [25], l. 1. A comma has been taken out after Tony. B reads Tony following, and Foole following.
- l. 4. A] vergis. B] Veriuyce.
- l. 17. A] curtall'd.
- l. 24. A] sweet-meats.
- p. [26], l. 26. A] a bed.
- p. [28], l. 8. A] for it.
- l. 13. A] Enanthe.
- l. 38. B] late.
- p. [29], l. 36. A omits the colon.
- p. [31], l. 8. A] much may it do ye with it my.
- l. 11. A omits] Exit.
- l. 12. After this line instead of the second Exit and the stage direction, A adds]
And when you please, and how allay my miseries.
Enter Frederick.
To whom I kneele be mercifull unto me,
Looke on my harmelesse youth Angels of pitty,
And from my bleeding heart wipe off my sorrowes,
The power, the pride, the malice and injustice
Of cruell men are bent against mine innocence.
You that controwle the mighty wills of Princes,
And bow their stubborne armrs, look on my weaknesse,
And when you please, and how, allay my miseries. [Exit.
Fred. Hast etc.
- l. 38. B misprints] speechs.
- p. [32], l. 22. A] minutes.
- p. [33], l. 2. B misprints] Soveragin.
- l. 20. B misprints] Can.
- p. [34], l. 18. A] goody.
- p. [35], l. 39. B] learn.
- p. [36], l. 17. A] credit yea.
- p. [37], l. 10. A] desire.
- p. [38], l. 25. A] honour'd.
- l. 27. B misprints] is
- p. [40], l. 1. A] my rulnes.
- l. 31. A omits] part.
- l. 37. B] Worship.
- p. [41], l. 8. A] it too.
- p. [42], ll. 14 and 15. A inserts stage direction Enter Cassandra here instead of on p. [43], ll. 20, 21.
- p. [43], l. 3. A transfers too from end of line to before grown.
- l. 14. A] has given.
- l. 23. A omits stage direction.
- l. 24. A omits Fred. and gives the line to Val.
- p. [44], l. 2. A] your face.
- l. 19. A] by her.
- l. 22. A] friends to tell.
- ll. 37, 38. A adds the following lines, repeated from p. [42],
- ll. 25-34 with slight differences:
Fred. You have the happinesse you ever aim'd at,
The joy, and pleasure.
Val. Would you had the like, Sir.
Fred. You tumble in delights with your sweet Lady,
And draw the minutes out in deare embraces,
You lead a right Lords life.
Val. Would you had tryed it,
That you might know the vertue but to suffer,
If anger, though it be unjust and insolent
Sits hansomer upon you then your scorne, Sir.
Fred. You cleerly, etc.
- p. [46], l. 5. A] to Valerio.
- l. 6. A] off,
- l. 31. A] excellence in honesty.
- p. [47], l. 5. A] ye.
- l. 6. A] ye.
- p. [48], l. 17. A] lyen.
- p. [49], l. 1. A] speak, is.
- p. [50], l. 27. A] dare.
- p. [51], l. 6. A] what is.
- p. [52], l. 9. A] vilde.
- p. [53], l. 6. A] Tameris.
- p. [54], l. 1. A] in a Coach.
- l. 8. A] Raines.
- l. 26. A] cold,
- p. [56], l. 17. A] juster then thine, in.
- l. 19. A omits] thee.
- l. 31. A] times.
- l. 37. A] mine.
- p. [57], l. 23. A] rights.
- p. [61], l. 29. A] a my.
- l. 36. A omits stage direction.
- p. [62], l. 8. A] Gallenatius.
- l. 11. A] Has.
- l. 15. A] an't.
- l. 38. A] flung i'th.
- p. [65], l. 12. B misprints] abilily.
- l. 16. A] Eason.
- l. 23. A] outsides.
- p. [66], l. 34. B misprints] me.
- p. [67], l. 22. A comma has been added at the end of the line.
- l. 34. A] Abidig.
- l. 35. Repeated twice in error in A.
- p. [69], l. 25. A] And woe.
- p. [71], l. 32. B] swell.
- p. [73], l. 1. B] Majors.
- l. 8. A] you have.