Act I. Scene 1. The acts and scenes are marked throughout in the Folios, but not in the Quartos.
Note II.
I. 1. 25, 26. There is a curious example of careless printing here in the third Quarto, which reads:
'Bast. No my Lord.
Glo. My services to your Lordship.
unrable friend.
Kent. I must loue you &c.'
Note III.
I. 1. 36. 'and tis our fast intent.' 'This,' says Warburton, 'is an interpolation of Mr Lewis Theobald, for want of knowing the meaning of the old reading in the Quarto of 1608, and first folio of 1623; where we find it—and 'tis our FIRST intent, which is as Shakespear wrote it.' Warburton's error was corrected by Johnson.
Note IV.
I. 1. 80-84. The reading given in the text is that of the Folios, except as otherwise stated in the foot note. The first Quarto, which is followed, except in the spelling of a word or two, by the rest, has: