VARIOUS READINGS AND VERSIONS FROM THE DURHAM MS.
A CHILDE.
1. "His soul is yet a white page" (paper).
AN ORDINARY PHYSITIAN.
4. After the words "take Physicke." "He drives away ye time if he cannot ye maladie, and is furnished with an hundred merrie tales for the purpose. He is no faithful friend for he leaves a man gasping, and his pretence is, death and he are enemies."
A SELFE-CONCEITED MAN.
10 (11 in Bliss). "A parasite is a stale to him," for "a flatterer is a dunce to him."
A RESERVED MAN.
26 (12 in Bliss). "Never speaks above the audit of a whisper," for "whispers you in the ear acts."
A DOUNE-RIGHT SCHOLLER.