...............pities not?
Which of you..................
............distress?’
Here perhaps the printer has mistaken Mr Knight’s marginal directions. If such an error can escape the notice of so careful an editor, how likely is it to occur in the Folio which could hardly be said to have an editor at all!
NOTE VIII.
[II. 3. 12.] Johnson supposed that a line had been lost between lines 12 and 13 after ‘government.’ Malone conjectured that one had been lost after ‘council under him,’ line 13.
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.’