s._ Hence! prate no more!
Or, by thy villans bloud, thou prat'st thy last!
A barbarous groome grudge at his masters bountie!
But since I know he would as much abhorre
His hinde should argue what he gives his friend, 220
Take that, Sir, for your aptnesse to dispute. _Exit._
_Maff._ These crownes are set in bloud; bloud be their fruit!
_Exit._
LINENOTES:
5 _continuall_. A, incessant.
8 _forming_. A, forging.
10 _men meerely great_. A, our tympanouse statists.
20 _wealth_. A, powers.
25 _faine_. A, glad.
31 _earth_. A, world.
40 _meane_. A, poore.
43 _possible_. A, likely.
44 _good to_. A, fit I.
57 _Callest_. A, Think'st.
80 _doe_. A, doth.
82 _me_? A, me doe.
92 _humorous_. A, portly.
102-3 _And . . . part_. Repunctuated by ed. Qq have:--
And (hearing villanies preacht) t'unfold their Art
Learne to commit them, Tis a great mans Part.
110 _loves_. A, eies.
113 _old_. A, rude.
117 _be wise_. A, be rul'd.
122-125 _Like . . . ignorant_. A omits.
126 _To fit his seed-land soyl_. A, But hee's no husband
heere.
130 _for_. A, with.
153 After this line B inserts: Table, Chesbord & Tapers
behind the Arras. This relates not to the present
Scene, but to Scene 2, where the King and Guise play
chess (cf. I, 2, 184). Either it has been inserted,
by a printer's error, prematurely; or, more probably,
it may be an instruction to the "prompter" to see
that the properties needed in the next Scene are
ready, which has crept from an acting version of the
play into the Quartos.
156 _His passe_. A, A passe.
157 _respect_. A, good fashion.
167 _your great masters goodnesse_. A, his wise
excellencie.
170 _rude_. A, bad.
180 _Graces_. A, highnes.
192 _bounteous Grace_. A, excellence.
193 _and to you of long ones_. A has:--
And to your deserts
The reverend vertues of a
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