Note IX.
II. 1. 76. We take this opportunity of stating that we have not thought it worth while, either in this play or in Hamlet, to notice the few inaccuracies which occur in Steevens's reprints.
Note X.
II. 2. 40. Mr Dyce first suggested that 'Part' was intended as a stage-direction.
Note XI.
II. 2. 136-142. The first Quarto, followed substantially by the others, reads here:
'His fault is much, and the good King his Master
Will checke him for't; your purposd low correction
Is such, as basest and temnest wretches for pilfrings
And most common trespasses are punisht with,
The King must take it ill, that hee's so slightly valued
In his Messenger, should haue him thus restrained.'
The Folios have only the following lines:
'The King his Master, needs must take it ill
That he so slightly valued in his Messenger,
Should haue him thus restrained.'