NOTE IX.
[II. 4. 1, 2.] The Quarto here reads:
‘Last night I heare they lay at Northhampton.
At Stonistratford will they be to night.’
The Folio:
‘Last night I heard they lay at Stony Stratford,
And at Northampton they do rest to night.’
Pope:
‘I heard they lay the last night at Northampton,
At Stony-Stratford they do rest to-night.’
Capell:
‘Last night, I hear, they rested at Northampton;
At Stony-stratford they do lye to-night.’
The correction found in the Folio was probably made, as Malone says, simply for the sake of the metre. The Folio reading accidentally coincides with the statement of Hall’s Chronicle, but (what is of more consequence) it is inconsistent with the next line of the Archbishop’s speech.