F = Weaver 74 SD Chartham = Ed. Q = Chattam. Both are places in the southeast of England 89 an = F2. F = a 97 SD Michael = F. Q = Tom. Ed = a messenger 106 Mortimer at this point in Q Cade also knights Dick the butcher
4.4.21 mourning for = F, Q. Ed = mourning 42 traitors = F. Ed = trait’rous rabble 48 hath = F. Q = hath almost 57 be betrayed = F2. F = betraid
4.6.8 SH SMITH = Ed. F = But.
4.7.7 SH HOLLAND = Ed. F = Iohn. In this edition the character labelled “John” is identified as “John Holland” and therefore assigned the speech heading “Holland,” rather than identifying him as a new character, as in other editions 40 on = Q. F = in 50 Away … Latin = F. In place of this Q has the following lines:
CADE |
‘Bonum terrum’. Zounds, what is that? |
DICK |
He speaks French. |
WILL |
No, ’tis Dutch. |
NICK |
No, ’tis Outalian: I know it well enough. |
62 Kent = F. Ed = But 80 caudle = F4. F = Candle help of = F. Ed = health o’th’ 99 At this point Q adds the following detail taken from the Chronicles: to the Standard in Cheapside 100 Q again adds the following detail, again present in the Chronicles: go to Mile End Green 111 men = F. Q = Married men 113 At this point Q has the following additional lines, thought to be an authorial addition to the promptbook by some editors:
Enter Robin
ROBIN |
O captain, London Bridge is afire! |
CADE |
Run to Billingsgate and fetch pitch and flax and squench it. |
Enter Dick and a Sergeant
SERGEANT |
Justice, justice, I pray you, sir, let me have justice of this fellow here. |
CADE |
Why, what has he done? |
SERGEANT |
Alas, sir, he has ravished my wife. |
BUTCHER |
Why, my lord, he would have ’rested me and I went and entered my action in his wife’s paper house. |
CADE |
Dick, follow thy suit in her common place. You whoreson villain, you are a sergeant — you’ll take any man by the throat for twelvepence, and ’rest a man when he’s at dinner, and have him to prison ere the meat be out of his mouth. Go, Dick, take him hence: cut out his tongue for cogging, hough him for running, and, to conclude, brave him with his own mace. |
Exit [Butcher] with the Sergeant
116 Additional lines at this point in Q for Cade: He that will lustily stand to it shall go with me and take up these commodities following: item, a gown, a kirtle, a petticoat, and a smock.
[Act 4 Scene 8] there is no scene break at this point in Q. Some editors explain the apparent scene break in F as necessary in order to waste space at the end of the page due to incorrectly cast-off copy.
4.18.12 rabble = F. Ed = rebel 31 SD They … again = Q. Not in F
4.9.33 calmed = F4. F = calme 34 dispersed = Ed. F = dispierc’d
4.10.6 o’er = Ed. F = on 18 waning = Ed. F = warning 55 Jove = F. Q = God
5.1.10 soul = F.
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