Note XV.
III. 4. 112, 113. In the imperfect copy of the second Quarto in the British Museum, it is impossible to say whether the reading was & the pin-queues or the pin-queues, on account of an erasure by which it is made he pin-queues. Jennens quotes it as the pin-queues, and this is the reading of the copy in the Bodleian Library which we have called 'Bodl. 1.'
Note XVI.
III. 6. 101-114. Every editor from Theobald downwards, except Hanmer, has reprinted this speech from the Quartos. In deference to this consensus of authority we have retained it, though, as it seems to us, internal evidence is conclusive against the supposition that the lines were written by Shakespeare.
Note XVII.
IV. 1. 12. These conjectures of Hanmer's are derived from a letter of his to Warburton, still unpublished, which is now in the British Museum (Egerton, 1957).
Note XVIII.
IV. 6. 196-200. The first Quarto has in this passage:
'... water-pottes, I and laying Autumnes dust.
Gent. Good Sir.