"The Council shall hear of it; it is a riot."

The metre requires of, which makes the expression more idiomatic. Sir Hugh naturally omits it.


"And I thank you always with my heart la!"

The folio reads 'love you'; the correction is Farmer's. So also in Shallow's next speech.


Sc. 3.

"The good humour is to steal at a minute's rest."

As "minim's rest" occurs in Rom. and Jul. ii. 1, Langton and Collier's folio would so read here; but it may be, and probably is, a mere blunder of Nym's.