[III. 2. 91–93.] In the first Quarto the passage reads thus:
‘But come my Lo: shall we to the tower?
Hast. I go: but stay, heare you not the newes.
This day those men you talkt of, are beheaded.’
The reading of the Folios, which we have retained, is not satisfactory, and looks like an attempt of the editors to amend the defective metre of the Quartos. The scene opens at four in the morning, and yet Stanley is made to say, ‘the day is spent.’
NOTE XIII.
[III. 4. 5.] We retain here the reading in which both the earliest Quartos and the Folios agree. It doubtless came from the pen of the author, and is after all a pardonable inaccuracy, such as may easily escape from the pen of a rapid writer or the tongue of a ready talker.
NOTE XIV.
[III. 4. 10–13.] We keep the reading of the Quartos but have made a change in the arrangement of the lines. This is the text of the Quartos:
‘Buc. Who I my Lo? we know each others faces: