The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]

by William Shakespeare

NOTE XXI.

[IV. 4. 512–517.] The Quartos here read:

‘Mes. Your grace mistakes, the newes I bring is good

My newes is that by sudden floud, and fall of water,

The Duke of Buckinghams armie is disperst and scattered,

And he himselfe fled, no man knowes whether.

King. O I crie you mercie, I did mistake,

Ratcliffe reward him, for the blow I gaue him.’

By substituting ‘’Tis’ for ‘My newes is’ in the second line, and ‘Buckingham’s’ for ‘The Duke of Buckinghams’ in the third, the reading of the Quartos might be retained.