NOTE II.
[I. 3. 208.] Theobald inserts here two lines from the old play:
‘K. Hen. Then be it so: My Lord of Somerset,
We make your Grace Regent over the French.’
We have omitted them, agreeing with Capell, Malone, Mr Knight, Mr Collier, and Mr Grant White, that their insertion is not absolutely necessary. Besides Shakespeare would hardly have left so lame a line as the second unaltered. It is possible that some such line as the following may have dropped out:
‘King. Then be it so: this is King Henry’s doom.’