_ Ff Q3.
190: _into_] _in_ Q3.
193: SCENE VII. Pope.
194: _un garcon_] Capell. _oon garsoon_ F1 Q3. _one garsoon_
F2 F3 F4.
_un paysan_] Capell. _oon pesant_ Ff Q3.
_boy_] _boe_ F2 F3 F4.
196: _did you_] _did you not_ Rowe.
214: _title_] _guile_ Collier MS.
225: After this line Pope, followed by Theobald, inserts from
Q1 Q2: Evans [aside to Fenton] _I will dance and eat plums
at your wedding._
231: _Let it be so. Sir John,_] _Let it be so (Sir John:)_ Ff Q3.

NOTES.

NOTE I.

I. 1. 41. Master Page is called 'George' in three places, II. 1. 135 and
143, and V. 5. 189, but we have left the text of the Folios uncorrected,
as the mistake may have been Shakespeare's own. It is however possible
that a transcriber or printer may have mistaken 'Geo.' for 'Tho.'

In I. 3. 89, 90, on the other hand, we have not hesitated to correct the
reading of the Folio, substituting 'Page' for 'Ford,' and 'Ford' for
'Page,' because, as the early Quartos have the names right, it seems
likely that the blunder was _not_ due to Shakespeare.

NOTE II.

I. 1. 49. Here again, as in line 40, F2 F3 F4 read 'good,' F1 Q3 'goot,'
but we have not thought it necessary to do more than give a specimen of
such variations. Capell, in order to make Dr Caius's broken English
consistent with itself, corrects it throughout and substitutes 'de' for
'the,' 'vill' for 'will,' and so forth. As a general rule, we have
silently followed the first Folio.

NOTE III.

I. 1. 114. With regard to this and other passages which Pope, Theobald,
Malone, &c. have inserted from the early Quartos, our rule has been to
introduce, between brackets, such, and such only, as seemed to be
absolutely essential to the understanding of the text, taking care to
give in the note all those which we have rejected.

The fact that so many omissions can be supplied from such mutilated
copies as the early Quartos, indicates that there may be many more
omissions for the detection of which we have no clue. The text of the
_Merry Wives_ given in F1 was probably printed from a carelessly written
copy of the author's MS.

NOTE IV.

I. 3. 95. Perhaps, as in the _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, III. 1. 315, and
other passages, some of which are mentioned by Sidney Walker in his
'Criticisms,' Vol. II. p. 13 sqq., this vexed passage may be emended by
supplying a word. We venture to suggest 'the revolt of mine _anger_ is
dangerous.' The recurrence of th