NOTE VI.
[II. 2. 45, 46.] The first Folio has the whole passage thus:
‘His eldest Sister, Anne,
My Mother being Heire vnto the Crowne,
Marryed Richard, Earle of Cambridge,
Who was to Edmond Langley,
Edward the thirds fift Sonnes Sonne;
By her I clayme the Kingdome:
She was Heire to Roger, Earle of March,
Who was the Sonne of Edmond Mortimer
Who marryed Phillip, sole Daughter
Vnto Lionel, Duke of Clarence.’
The later Folios follow the first, except that in the seventh line they read ‘She then was’ for ‘She was.’
Rowe read, ‘Who was son to Edmond Langley,’ but made no other change; and Pope followed him.
Theobald read:
‘Who was the son to Edmond Langley,
Edward the Third’s fifth son.’—
and arranged the following lines as they are found in our text.
Hanmer:
‘Who was the son of Edmund Langley,
Edward the Third’s fifth son’s son, and by her
I claim the kingdom, for she then was heir
To Roger &c.’
It was Capell who arranged the earlier lines of the speech as we have given them. Steevens, as usual, adopted his arrangement without acknowledging the obligation.
Mr Collier, in his first edition, read:
‘Married Richard Earl of Cambridge; who was
To Edmond Langley Edward the third’s fifth son, son.’