deuce ...

3 Not in the Kerr version.

4 "but" in K.

5 "but as" in K.

6 "not a" in K.

7 "Goot-hell" in K.

8 "brosber" in K. In this speech, there is a variation in dialect as
"v" for "w" in such words as "was," and "v" for "o" in such a word
as "one."

9 Not in K.

10 "vork" in K.

11 "froo my fingers as vas comeatable," in K.

12 "Nein, nein" in K.

13 "frau" in K.

14 "baber" in K.

15 "freund, den" in K.

16 Here is given in Kerr, the following:

VEDDER. I wish she was my wife, I'd manage her.
RIP. And I wish she vas your vife too, or anybody's vife, so long as
she vasn't mine vife.

17 RORY'S speech, in K., begins with "Come."

18 "stewed vhen" in K.

19 "der" in K.

20 "gonguered" in K.

21 In K., variation only in dialect form.

22 "goot-hell" in K.

23 "brosber" in K.

24 "vont" in K. The present edition does not attempt to indicate such
slight variations and differences.

25 "der tyfil" in K.

26 "stewed" in K.

27 In this song, "v" takes the place of "w" in K.

28 "Der tyfil" in K.

29 In K. there follows:

VEDDER. Oh. I wish I was your husband, Dame Winkle. [_Exit._
DAME. You, my husband, you! [_To the others._] Out of my sight,
reprobates.

30 "goot-hell" in K.

31 "stewed" in K.

32 "buts" in K.

33 "bulls" in K.

34 "der" in K.

35 "stewed but" in K.

36 "creebs" in K.

37 "bond" in K.

38 "think" in K.

39 "gooses" in K.

40 "von" in K.

41 "den" in K.

42 "back" in K.

43 "do" follows "how" in K.

44 "Nein, nein" in K.

45 In K., Rip's speech is "Ter tyfill but I have cotch him dis time!"

SCENE II.

_A Plain Chamber._

_Enter_ DERRIC VAN SLAUS.(46)

DERRIC.

Should the present application fail, I am a ruined man; all my
speculations will be frustrated, and my duplicity exposed; yes, the
dissipation of my son must inevitably prove his ruin as well as mine. To
supply his wants, the public money has been employed; and, if unable to
replace it, heaven knows what may be the consequence. But my son is now
placed with an able advocate in New York, and should he pursue the right
path, there may be still hopes of his reformation.

HERMAN.

[_Without._] My father, you say, is this way?

D