The Douai Project: Douai As You Like It: Collation

Douai As You Like It: Collation

Witnesses

[F2]:

Shakespeare, William. Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London: Robert Allot, 1632. STC 22274. ESTC S111233.

[Douai MS]: Text of Douai MS 787 as transcribed by Louise Fang

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

James

F2:

Iaques

The name of Orlando’s elder brother is James throughout the Douai As You Like It rather than Jaques as in F2. See annotation at Sp1.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

rather

F2:

(to speake more properly)

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

here

F2:

heere at home

Suppression of a repetition.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

beholding

F2:

bound

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

I: besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me, his countenance seemes to take from me: he lets me feede with his Hindes, barres me the place of a brother, and as much as in him lyes, mines my gentility with my education.

Long omission.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thoug

F2:

though yet

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

then

F2:

then sir?

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

I am

F2:

Marry sir, I am

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

to be reduc’d

F2:

that I should come

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

whom

F2:

whom sir?

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

first

F2:

the first

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

although

F2:

albeit

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sake agree

F2:

remembrance, be at accord

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

allowance

F2:

allottery

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

shall

F2:

shall have

Scribal omission.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

marry

F2:

most true,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

not … crowns

F2:

yet give no thousand crownes neither

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

he’s still … Doore.

F2:

So please you, he is heere at the doore, and importunes accesse to you.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

news

F2:

new newes

Suppression of the repetition.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

none … old

F2:

There’s no newes at the Court sir, but the old newes: that is

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

her cozen

F2:

the Dukes daughter her Cosen

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

ever bred

F2:

ever from their Cradles bred

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

and that

F2:

and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England: they say many

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

I … understand

F2:

I am given sir secretly to understand,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

my honor … me

F2:

my owne honour if he come in

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

you

F2:

you withall

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

enterprize … and much

F2:

intendment, or brooke such disgrace well as he shall runne into, in that it is a thing of his owne search, and altogether

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

which … endeavour’d

F2:

which thou shalt find I will most kindly requite: I had myself notice of my Brothers purpose heerein, and have by under-hand meanes laboured

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

in all … enemie

F2:

of France, full of ambition, an envious emulator of every mans good parts, a secret and villanous contriver against me his naturall brother

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

disgrace

F2:

disgrace, or if he doe not mightily grace himselfe on thee,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

poison

F2:

poyson, entrap thee by some treacherous devise

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

some means

F2:

some indirect meanes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

lands

F2:

lands and revenues

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

belovd

F2:

beloved, and indeed so much in the heart of the world, and especially of my owne people, who best know him,

Long omission.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thee

F2:

thee; if

Scribal error.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Coz I will

F2:

I will Coz

Simple reversals like these are common in the Douai MS.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

madam … nought:

F2:

that swore by his Honour they were good Pancakes, and swore by his Honour the Mustard was naught:

Suppression of a repetition.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

now

F2:

I marry, now

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Bonjour Mr Le Beu

F2:

Ros. With his mouth full of newes. / Cel. Which he will put on us, as Pigeons feed their young. / Ros. Then shall we be newes-cram’d. / Cel. All the better: we shallbe more marketable. Boon-jour Mounsier Le Beu, what the newes?

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

foole

F2:

that was laid on with a trowell

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

here

F2:

heere where you are

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

weep too

F2:

take his part with weeping

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

this wrastling Cosin

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

this … appoynted

F2:

heere is the place appointed for wrastling, and they are ready to performe it

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Enter

F2:

Flourish. Enter

Suppression of an indication of sound.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

he will not … forwardness

F2:

the youth will not be intreated, / His owne perill on his forwardnesse

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

her

F2:

them

An emendation predating Rowe.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

strength

F2:

strength, if you saw your selfe with your eyes, or knew your selfe with your judgement, the feare of your adventure would counsell you to a more equall enterprise.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

that has … loose

F2:

that was never gracious

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

to make … greater

F2:

to eeke out hers

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sir

F2:

sir, but his will hath in it a more modest working.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

no you … second

F2:

No, I warrant your Grace you shall not entreat him to a second, that have so mightily perswaded him from a first.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

a liveless block

F2:

a quintine, a meere livelesse blocke

Suppression of a difficult word.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

were

F2:

was

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

lesser

F2:

taller

Emendation of an error in F2, predating Rowe (shorter).

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

throwne

F2:

cast

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

father

F2:

Father: Oh how full of briers is this working day world. / Cel.They are but burs, Cosen, throwne upon thee in holiday foolery, if we walke not in the trodden paths, our very petty-coates will catch them. / Ros. I could shake them off my coate, these burs are in my heart. / Cel. Hem them away. / Ros. I would try if I could cry hem, and have him.

Long omission.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

is’t … liking of

F2:

O, a good wish upon you: you will try in time in despight of a fall: but turning these jests out of service, let us take in good earnest: Is it possible on such a sodaine, you should fall into so strong a liking with

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

father

F2:

father deerely;

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

No faith,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

no … own?

F2:

Why should I not?

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

I that

F2:

If that I

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

was

F2:

was I

Scribal omission.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

father

F2:

Soveraigne

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

not

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

which … one.

F2:

Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

shall be

F2:

Shall we be

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

alone

F2:

upon you

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

other

F2:

two or three

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

brothers

F2:

brother

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

blows and bites

F2:

it bites and blowes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

adversity

F2:

adversity / Which like the toad, ougly and venemous, / Weares yet a precious Iewell in his head:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

bookes … brookes

F2:

tongues in trees, bookes in the running brookes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

confines

F2:

owne confines

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

does grieve

F2:

grieves

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

head

F2:

roope

Corrects an error in F2 (for root).

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sight

F2:

spectacle

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sraight

F2:

strait. Exeunt.

Omission of a stage direction.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

consent

F2:

consent and sufferance

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

the

F2:

her

Emendation.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

foolish

F2:

roynish

The editor suppresses an archaic word.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

oh … here?

F2:

What my yong master, oh my gentle master, / Oh my sweet master, O you memory / Of old Sir Rowland? why, what make you here? / Why are you vertuous? Why doe people love you? / And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant? / Why would you be so fond to overcome / The bonny priser of the humorous Duke?

Long omission.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

Your brother, no, no brother, yet the sonne / (Yet not the son, I will not call him son) / Of him I was about to call his Father,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

this house

F2:

this is no place, this house

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

for

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

rode?

F2:

rode? / This I must doe, or know not what to doe: / Yet this I will not doe, doe how I can,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

father

F2:

father, / Which I did store to be my foster Nurse, / When service should in my old limbes lye lame, / And unregarded age in corners throwne,

Adam’s part is consistently abridged, here and below.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

feed

F2:

feede, / Yea providently caters for the Sparrow,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

lusty

F2:

lusty; / For in my youth I never did apply / Hot, and rebellious liquors in my bloud, / Nor did not with unbashfull forehead wooe, / The meanes of weakeness and debility, / Therefore my age is a lusty winter, / Frosty, but kindly; let me goe with you,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

ancient … wellt

F2:

antique world, / When service sweate for duty, not for meede: / Thou art not for the fashion of these times, / Where none will sweate, but for promotion, / And having that doe choake their service up, / Even with the having, it is not so with thee: / But poore old man, thou prun’st a rotten tree, / That cannot so much as blossome yeeld, / In lieu of all thy paines and husbandry, / But

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Rosalinde Cælia

F2:

Rosaline for Ganimed, Celia for Aliena,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

weary

F2:

merry

Emendation predating Theobald.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thy

F2:

their

Emendation predating Rowe.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

over … bid it

F2:

upon a stone, and bid him

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

milkd

F2:

milk’d; and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I tooke two cods, and giving her them againe, said with weeping teares, weare these for my sake:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sad capers

F2:

strange capers; but as all is mortall in nature, so is all nature in love, mortall in folly.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

does … mine

F2:

Is much upon my fashion

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

travell

F2:

travaile

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

never thincks

F2:

little wreakes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

deeds

F2:

doing deeds

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

flock

F2:

Flockes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

the swain … with me

F2:

That yong Swaine that you saw heere but erewhile.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

shat

F2:

shalt

Scribal mistake.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

here

F2:

in it

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

immediatly

F2:

right sodainely

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Scene V

F2:

Scaena Quinta. / Enter, Amyens, Iaques, and others. / Song / Vnder the greene wood tree, / who loves to lye with me, / And turne his merry Note, / unto the sweet Birds throte: / Come hither, come hither, come hither: / Heere shall he see no enemy, / But Winter and rough Weather. / Iaq. More, more, I prethee more. / Amy. It will make you melancholly Monsieur Iaques / Iaq. I thanke it: More, I prethee more, I can sucke melancholly out of a song. As a Weazel suckes egges: More, I prethee more. / Amy. My voyce is ragged, I know I cannot please you. / Iaq. I doe not desire you to please me, I doe desire you to sing: Come, more, another stanzo: Call you’em stanzo’s? / Amy. What you will Monsieur Iaques. / Iaq. Nay, I care not for their names, they owne me nothing. Will you sing. / Aym. More at your request, then to please my selfe. / Iaq. Well then, if ever I thanke any man, Ile thanke you: but that they call complement is like th’encounter of two dog-Apes. And when a man thankes me hartily, me thinkes I have given him a penny, and he renders me the beggerly thankes. Come sing, and you that will not, hold your tongues. / Amy. Well, Ile end the song. Sirs, cover the while, the Duke will drinke under this tree; he hath beene all this day to looke you. / Iaq. And I have beene all this day to avoyd him: / He is too disputeable for my company: / I thinke of as many matters as he, but I give / Heaven thankes, and make no boast of them. / Come, warble, come. / Song. Altogether heere. / Who doth ambition shunne, / and loves to live i’th’Sunne, / Seeking the food he eates, / and pleas’d with what he gets: / Come hither, come hither, come hither, / Heere shall he see, & / Iaq. Ile give you a verse to this note, / That I made yesterday in despight of my invention. / Aym. And ile sing it. / Iaq. Thus it goes. / If it doe come to passe, that any man turne Asse: / Leaving his wealth and ease, / A Hubborne will to please, / Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame: / Heere shall he see, grosse fooles as he, / And if he will come to me. / Aym. What’s that Ducdame? / Iaq. ’Tis a Greeke invocation, to call fooles into a circle. Ile goe sleepe if I can: if I cannot, Ile raile against all the first borne of Egypt. / Aym. And Ile goe seeke the Duke, / His banket is prepar’d. / Exeunt.

Omission of scene V, possibly because of the songs, which are often cut in other plays too (see Douai Twelfth Night, for instance).

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

comfort thy heart

F2:

comfort a little, cheere thy selfe.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

for thee

F2:

to thee: / Thy conceite is neerer death, then thy powers.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

comforted

F2:

comfortable

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

desert

F2:

Desert. / Cheerely good Adam.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

Septima

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Lords

F2:

Lord, like out-lawes.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

musick

F2:

discord

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

forrest

F2:

Forrest, / A motley Foole (a miserable world:)

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

bakd

F2:

bask’d

Emendation.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

saies … a clock

F2:

with lacke-lustre eye, / Sayes, very wisely, it is ten a clocke:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

may you see

F2:

we may see

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

foole

F2:

foole, / A worthy foole

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

shall we … to eat

F2:

Du.Sen. What foole is this? / Iaq O worthie foole: One that hath bin a Courtier / And sayes, if Ladies be but young, and faire, / They have the gift to know it: and in his braine, / Which is as dry as the remainder bisket / After a voyage: He hath strange places cram’d / With observation, the which he vents / In mangled formes. O that I were a foole, / I am ambitious for a motley coat. / Du. Sen.Thou shalt have one. / Iaq. It is my onely suite, / Provided that you weed your better judgements / Of all opinion that growes ranke in them, / That I am wise. I must have liberty / Withall, as large a Charter as the winde, / To blow on whom I please, for so fooles have: / And they that are most gauled with my folly, / They most must laugh: And why sir must they so. / The why is plaine, as way to Parish Church: / He that a foole doth very wisely hit, / Doth very foolishly, although he smart / Seeme senseless of the bob. If not, / The Wise-man’s folly is anathomiz’d / Even by the squandring glances of the foole. / Invest me in my motley: Give me leave / To speake my minde, and I will through and through / Cleanse the foule body of th’infected world, / If they will patiently receive my medicine. / Du.Sen. Fie on thee. I can tell what thou wouldst do. / Iaq. What, for a Counter, would I do, but good? / Du.Sen. Most mischeevous foule sin, in chiding sin: / For thou thy selfe hast ben a Libertine, / As sensuall as the brutish sting it selfe, / And all th’imbossed sores, and headed evils, / That thou with license of free foot hast caught, / Would’st thou disgorge into the generall world. / Iaq. Why who cries out on pride, / That can therein taxe any private partie: / Doth it not flow as hugely as the Sea, / Till that the wearie verie meanes do ebbe. / What woman in the Citie do I name, / When that I say the Cittie woman beares / The cost of Princes on unworthie shoulders? / Who can come in, and say that I meane her, / When such a one as she, such is her neighbour? / Or what is he of basest function, / That sayes his braverie is not on my cost, / Thinking that I meane him, but therein suites / His folly to the mettle of my speech, / There then, how then, what then, let me see wherein / My tongue hath wrong’d him: if it do him right, / Then he hath wrong’d himselfe: if he be free, / Why then my taxing like a wild-goose flies / Vnclaim’d of any man. But who comes here?

A very long cut, which leaves out a satire of the world. The passage is summarized by the editor in three lines, and a stage direction is added.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Orlando … drawn

F2:

Orlando

Added stage business (predates Theobald’s with sword drawn).

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

days

F2:

dayes: / If ever beene where bels have knoll’d to Church:

Suppression of a religious reference.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

daies

F2:

dayes, / And have with holy bell bin knowld to Church,

Suppression of a religious reference; see above.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

I’ll … him

F2:

and be blest for your good comfort.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

play

F2:

play in.

Emendation predating Rowe.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

the whole world

F2:

the world

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

a snaile

F2:

snaile

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

a furnace

F2:

furnace

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

a pard

F2:

the Pard, / Ielous in honor, sodaine, and quicke in quarrell,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

wt fat

F2:

with good

wt is an error for wth (for with). Fat is an original variant.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

cut

F2:

cut, / Full of wise saws, and moderne instances,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sipperd

F2:

slipper’d

Scribal mistake.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

bearing

F2:

with

Added stage direction.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Musick and Song

F2:

Song. / Blow, blow, thou winter winde, / Thou art not so unkinde, as mans ingratitude / Thy tooth is not so keene, because thou art not seene, / although thy breath be rude. / Heigh ho, sing heigh ho, unto the greene holly, / Most friendship is fayning; most Loving, meere folly: / The heigh ho, the holly, / This Life is most iolly, / Freize, freize, thou bitter skie that dost not bight so nigh / as benefitts forgot: / Though thou the waters warpe, thy sting is not so sharpe, / as friend remembred not. / Heigh ho, sing &c.

The song is, once again, left out.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

New Duke

F2:

Duke

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

be: But were I not the better part made mercie, / I should not see an absent argument / Of my revenge, thou present: but looke to it,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

alive or dead

F2:

dead, or living

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

our

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

huntress

F2:

Huntress name

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

naught

F2:

naught. In respect that it is solitary, I like it very well: but in respect that it is private, it is a very vild life. Now

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

tedious

F2:

tedious, As it is a spare life (looke you) it fits my humor well: but as there is no more plentie in it, it goes much against my stomacke.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

meat

F2:

meanes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

burne

F2:

burne: That good pasture makes fat sheepe: and

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sun

F2:

Sunne: That hee that hath learned no wit by Nature, nor Art, may complaine of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thine

F2:

then thy manners

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

ill

F2:

a parlous

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

whit

F2:

whit Touchstone

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

is most mockeable

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

nasty

F2:

uncleanly

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

agen

F2:

agen: a more sounder instance, come.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

flesh

F2:

flesh ndeed

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

being the

F2:

the verie

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

damnd

F2:

damn’d? God helpe thee shallow man:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

my lambs … Brother

F2:

my Ewes graze, and my / Lambes sucke / Clo. That is another simple sinne in you, to bring the / Ewes and the Rammes together, and to offer to get your / living, by the copulation of Cattle, to be bawd to a Bel- / weather, and to betray a shee-Lambe of a twelvemonth / to a crooked-pated olde Cuckoldly Ramme, out of all / reasonable match. If thou bee’st not damn’d for this, the divell / himselfe will have no shepheards, I cannot see else / how thou shouldst scape.

Long cut, possibly because of bawdy content.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

find

F2:

seeke

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Witer

F2:

Wintred

Possibly a scribal error.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

fruit.

F2:

fruite. / Ros. Ile graffe it with you, and then I shall graffe it with a Medler: then it will be the earliest fruit i’th country: for you’l be rotten ere you be halfe ripe, and that’s the right vertue of the Medler. / Clo. You have said: but whether wisely or no, let the Forrest judge.

Long cut.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

peace … Cælia reading

F2:

Enter Celia with a writing. / Ros. Peace, here comes my sister reading, stand aside.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

her

F2:

his

Emendation predating Rowe.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Atalanta

F2:

Cleopatra

Original emendation.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Cleopatra

F2:

Atalanta

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

cry’d

F2:

cride, have your parishioners withall,

Scribal correction, suppression of a repetition.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

retreat

F2:

retreit, though not with bagge and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

too

F2:

too, for some of them had in them more feete then the Verses would beare. / Cel. That’s no matter: the feet might beare the Verses. / Ros. I, but the feet were lame, and could not beare themselves without the verse, and therefore stood lamely in the verse.

Long cut.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

wonderfull

F2:

wonderfull, and most wonderfull / wonderfull, and yet againe wonderfull, and after that out / of all hooping. / Ros. Good my complection, dost thou thinke though / I am caparison’d like a man, I have a doublet and a hose in / my disposition? One inch of delay more, is a South-sea / of discoverie. I pre’thee tell me, who is it quickely, and / speake apace: I would thou couldst stammer, that thou / might’st powre this conceal’d man out of thy mouth, as / Wine comes out of a narrow mouth’d bottle: either too / much at once, or none at all. I pre’thee take the Corke out of thy mouth, that I may drinke thy tydings. / Cel. So you may put a man in your belly.

Long cut.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

to so … particulars

F2:

to these particulars, is more then to answer in a Catechisme.

Suppression, possibly due to religious content.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

he was

F2:

Cry holla, to the tongue, I prethee: it curuettes unseasonably. He was

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

bringst

F2:

bringst me

Omission.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

say on

F2:

say on. / Enter Orlando & Iaques

The stage direction is moved two lines down, after Rosalind’s next cue.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

slip

F2:

slinke

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

note him./Enter Orlando & Jaques

F2:

note him.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

adieu

F2:

God buy you,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

he stands … others.

F2:

Ile tell you who Time ambles withall, who Time trots withall, who time gallops withall, and who he stands still withall.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

marry with

F2:

Marry he trots hard with

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

seven years

F2:

the length of seaven yeare

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

pain

F2:

paine: the one lacking the burthen of leane and wastefull Learning; the other knowing no burthen of heavie tedious penurie. These time ambles withall.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

gallows

F2:

gallowes: for though hee goe as softly as foot can fall, he thinkes himselfe too soone there:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

another

F2:

another, as halfe pence are,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

eye

F2:

eye and sunken

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

not

F2:

not: an unquestionable spirit, which you have not:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

ungarterd

F2:

ungarter’d; your bonnet unbanded

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

does

F2:

do’s: that is one of the points, in the which women still give the lie to their consciences.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

unfortunate man

F2:

he, that unfortunate he.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

love

F2:

Love, his Mistris:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

colour

F2:

colour: would now like him, now loath him: then entertaine him, then forsweare him: now weepe for him; then spit at him;

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Come Awdrey

F2:

Come apace good Audrie, I will fetch up your Goates, Audrey: and how Awdrie

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

yes … coupled

F2:

Your features, Lord warrant us: what features? / Clo. I am heere with thee, and thy Goates, as the most / capricious Poet honest Ovid was among the Gothes. / Iaq. O knowledge ill inhabited, worse then love in a / thatch’d house. / Clo. When a mans verses cannot be understood, nor a / mans good wit seconded with the forward childe, under- / standing: it strikes a man more dead then a great reckon- / ing in a little roome: truly, I would the Gods had made / thee poeticall. / Aud. I do not know what Poeticall is: is it honest in deed / and word: is it a true thing? / Clo. No truly: for the truest poetrie is the most faining, / and Lovers are given to Poetrie: and what they sweare in / Poetrie, may be said as Lovers, they do feigne. / Aud. Do you wish then that the Gods had made mee / Poeticall? / Clow. I do truly: for thou swear’st to me thou art ho- / nest: Now if thou wert a Poet, I might have some hope / thou didst feigne. / Aud. Would you not have me honest? / Clo. No truly, unlesse thou wert hard favour’d: for / honestie coupled to beautie, is to have Honie a sawce to / Sugar. / Iaq. A materiall foole.

The parts of Touchstone and of Audrey are considerably abridged.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

pray god

F2:

therefore I pray the Gods

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

though

F2:

though I thanke the Goddes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thanck god

F2:

praised be the Gods

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

but

F2:

But be it, as it may bee,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thee

F2:

thee: and to that end,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Martext

F2:

Mar-text, the Vicar of the next village,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

promisd

F2:

promis’d to meete me in this place of the Forrest, and

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

us. / Iaq. I would faine see this meeting.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

god

F2:

the Gods

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Amen … dispatch us

F2:

Amen. A man may if he weare of a fearfull heart, / stagger in this attempt: for heere wee have no Temple / but the wood, no assembly but horne-beasts. But what / though? Courage. As hornes are odious, they are neces- / sarie. It is said, many a man knowes no end of his goods; / right: Many a man has good Hornes, and knowes no end / of them. Well, that is the dowrie of his wife, ’tis none / of his owne getting; hornes, even so poore men alone: / No, no, the noblest Deere hath them as huge as the Ras- / call: Is the single man therefore blessed? No, as a wall’d / Towne is more worthier then a village, so is the forehead / of a married man, more honourable then the bare brow / of a Batcheller: and by how much defence is better then / no skill, by so much is a horne more precious then to / want. / Enter Sir Oliver Mar-text / Heere comes Sir Oliver: Sir Oliver Mar-text you are well / met. Will you dispatch us heere under this tree, or shall / we goe with you to your Chappell?

A long cut.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

I’ll take … after

F2:

I will not take her on guift of any man. / Ol. Truely she must bee given, or the marriage is not / lawfull. / Iaq. Proceede, proceede: Ile give her. / Clo. Good even good M. what ye cal’t: how doe you / Sir, you are verie well met: godild you for your last com- / panie, I am verie glad to see you, even a toy in hand heere / Sir: Nay, pray be cover’d. / Iaq. Wil you be married, Motley? / Clo. As the Oxe hath his bow sir, the horse his curb, and / the Falkon her bels, so man hath his desires, and as Pige- / ons bill, so wedlocke would be nibling. / Iaq. And will you (being a man of your breeding) bee / married under a bush like a begger? Get you to Church, / and have a good Priest that can tell you what marriage is: / this fellow will but joyne you together, as they joyne / Wainscot, then one of you will prove a shrunke pannell, / and like greene timber, warpe, warpe. / Clo. I am not in the minde, but I were better to be mar- / ried of him then of another, for he is not like to marrie me / well: and not being well married, it will be a good excuse / for me hereafter, to leave my wife.

Another long cut.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

we’ll … this

F2:

We must be married, or we must live in baudrey:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Oliver

F2:

Oliver: Not O sweet Oliver, O brave / Oliver leave me not behind thee: But winde away, be gone / I say, I will not to wedding with thee.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

colour

F2:

colour: / Ros. And his kissing is as full of sanctitie, / As the touch of holy bread. / Cel. Hee hath bought a paire of chast lips of Diana: a / Nun of winters sisterhood kisses not more religiouslie, / the very yce of chastitie is in them.

Suppression possibly due to religious content.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

attends

F2:

attends here in the forrest

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

lover

F2:

lover, as a / puisny Tilter, that spurnes his horse but on one side, / breakes his staffe like a noble goose;

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

blood

F2:

death

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

not

F2:

not, / Nor I am sure there is no force in eyes / That can doe hurt.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

offer

F2:

offer, / Foule is most foule, being foule to be a scoffer.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Exeunt … Cor

F2:

Exit.

The Douai stage direction is much more precise.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

troth

F2:

Deed

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

words of might

F2:

saw of might,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

so great a poverty

F2:

such a poverty

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

wonder

F2:

marvell

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

ambitious

F2:

ambitious: nor the Lawiers, which is politicke:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

computation

F2:

contemplation

An original emendation.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

Orl

Emendation to correct a misattributed cue in F2.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

travellor

F2:

Travellor: looke you lispe, / and weare strange suites; disable all the benefits of your / own Countrie: be out of love with your nativity, & almost / chide God for making you that countenance you are; / or I will scarce thinke you have swam in a Gundello.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

love

F2:

love? he that will / divide a minute into a thousand parts, and breake but a / part of the thousand part of a minute in the affairs of love, / it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapt him oth’ shoul- / der, but Ile warrant him hearthole.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

with a fairer face

F2:

of a better leere

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

your … Rosalinde

F2:

your very, verie Rosalinde

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Mistress

F2:

Mistris, or I should thinke my honestie ranker than my wit.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

cause

F2:

cause: Troilus had his braine dash’d out with a / Grecian club, yet hee did what hee could to die before, / and he is one of the patternes of love. Leander, he would / have liv’d many a faire yeere though Hero had turn’d / Nun; if it had not beene for a hot Midsomer-night, for / (good youth) hee went but forth to wash in the Hel- / lespont and being taken with the crampe, was droun’d, and / the foolish Chroniclers of that age, found it was Hero of / Sestos. But these are all lies

Long cut.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

more … cockpigeon

F2:

more jealous of thee, / then a Barbary cocke-pidgeon over his hen, more cla- / morous then a Parrat

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

much

F2:

much, and I thought no lesse

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

earnest

F2:

earnest, and so God mend mee,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

most

F2:

most patheticall breake-promise, and the most hollow lover,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Rosalinde

F2:

Rosalinde: so adieu

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

try you

F2:

try

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

taken … you

F2:

pluckt over your head,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

love

F2:

love: but it cannot be founded

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Venus

F2:

Venus, that was begot of thought, conceiv’d of spleene, and borne of madnesse,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

shade

F2:

shaddow

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Song … which

F2:

Song. / What shall he have that kild the Deare? / His Leather skin, and hornes to weare: / Then sing him home, the rest shall beare this burthen; / Take thou no scorne to weare the horne, / It was a crest ere thou wast borne, / Thy fathers father wore it, / And thy father bore it, / The horne, the horne, the lustly horne, / Is not a thing to laugh to scorne.

Another song left out.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

2 a clock

F2:

not past two a clocke

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

here’s no

F2:

heere much

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

hands

F2:

hands: / She has a huswifes hand, but that’s no matter:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

harme

F2:

vengance

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

her

F2:

her; (for I see Love hath made thee a tame snake)

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

owners

F2:

owner

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

when

F2:

why

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

an oake

F2:

an old Oake

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

its

F2:

her

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

eldest

F2:

elder

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sir I thinck

F2:

sirra, a body would thinke

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

did it

F2:

counterfeited

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

faith … woman

F2:

yfaith, I should have been a woman by right

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Enter … Oliver

F2:

Enter Clowne and Awdrie. / Clo. We shall finde a time Awdrie, patience gentle / Awdrie. / Awd. Faith the Priest was good enough, for all the / old gentlemans saying. / Clow. A most wicked Sir Oliver, Awdrie., a most vile / Mar-text. But Awdrie, there is a youth heere in the For- / rest layes claime to you. / Awd. I, I know who ’tis: he hath no interest in me in / the world: here comes the man you meane. / Enter William. / Clo. It is meat and drinke to me to see a Clowne, by / my troth, we that have good wits, have much to answer / for: we shall be flouting: we cannot hold. / Will. Good eu’n Audrey. / Aud. God ye good eu’n William / Will. And good eu’n to you Sir. / Clo. Good eu’n gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover / thy head: Nay prethee be couer’d. How olde are you / Friend? / Will. Five and twenty Sir. / Clo. A ripe age: Is thy name William? / Will. William, sir. / Clo. A faire name. Was’t borne i’th Forrest heere? / Will. I sir, I thanke God. / Clo. Thanke God: A good answer: / Art rich? / Will. ’Faith sir, so, so. / Clo. So, so, is good, very good, very excellent good: / and yet it is not, it is but so, so: / Art thou wise? / Will. I sir, I have a prettie wit. / Clo. Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a say- / ing: The foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman / knowes himselfe to be a Foole. The Heathen Philoso- / pher, when he had a desire to eate a Grape, would open / his lips when he put it into his mouth, meaning there- / by, that Grapes were made to eate, and lippes to open. You do love this maid? / Will. I do sir. / Clo. Give me your hand: Art thou Learned? / Will. No sir. / Col. Then learne this of me, To have, is to have. For it is a figure in Rhetoricke, that drinke being powr’d out / of a cup into a glasse, by filling the one, doth empty the / other. For all your Writers do consent, that Ipse is hee: / now you are not ipse for I am he. / Will. Which he sir? / Col. He sir, that must marrie this woman: Therefore / you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leave the / societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this fe- / male: which in the common, is woman: which toge- / ther, is, abandon the society of this Female, or Clowne / thou perishest: or to thy better understanding, dyest; or / (to wit) I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life in- / to death, thy liberty into bondage: I will deale in poy- / son with thee, or in bastinado, or in steele: I will bandy / with thee in faction, I will ore-run thee with policy: I / will kill thee a hundred and fifty wayes, therefore trem- / ble and depart. / Aud. Do good William. / Will. God rest yov merry sir. Exit.

Act 5 scene 1 is entirely left out (which is consistent with earlier cuts that left out many of the Clown’s lines, most particularly his bawdy jokes and songs).

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

marry

F2:

enjoy

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

her poverty

F2:

the povertie of her

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

revenue

F2:

all the revennew, that was old Sir Rowlands,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

his

F2:

all’s

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

swoone

F2:

sound

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

festivall

F2:

Nuptiall

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

anothers

F2:

another mans

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sorrow

F2:

heart heavinesse

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

then

F2:

then (for now I speake to some purpose)

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

conceit

F2:

conceit: I speake not this, that you should beare a good opinion / of my knowledge: insomuch (I say) I know you are: nei- / ther doe I labor for a greater esteeme then may in some / little measure draw a beleefe from you, to doe your selfe / good, and not to grace me.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

doe

F2:

do, which I tender deeply, though I say I am a Magitian:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

invite

F2:

bid

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

and I

F2:

And so am I

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

and I

F2:

And so am I

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

and I

F2:

And so am I

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

why … so

F2:

Why do you speake too, Why blame you mee to / love you.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

(to Sil:)

F2:

Added stage direction. The added stage directions in this scene anticipate Pope and Johnson.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

will

F2:

would

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

could

F2:

could: To morrow meet me altogether:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

(to Ph:)

F2:

Added stage direction.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

to morrow

F2:

to morrow: I will satisfie you, if ever I satisfi’d man, and you shall be married to morrow

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

(to Orla:)

F2:

Added stage direction.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

(to S)

F2:

Added stage direction.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

scene III

F2:

Scena Tertia. / Enter Clowne and Audrey. / Clo. To morrow is the joyfull day Audrey, to morrow will we be married. / Au. I do desire it with all my heart and I hope it is no dishonest desire, to desire to be a woman of the world? Heere come two of the banish’d Dukes Pages. / Enter two Pages. / I.Pa. Wel met honest Gentleman. / Clo. By my troth well met: come, sit, sit, and a song. / 2.Pa. We are for you, sit i’th middle. / I.Pa. Shal we clap into’t roundly, without hauking,or spitting, or saying we are hoarse, which are the onely prologues to a bad voice. / 2.Pa. I faith, y’faith, and both in a tune like two gipsies on a horse. / Song. / It was a Lover, and his Lasse, / With a hey, and aho, and a hey nonino, / That o’re the greene corne feeld did passe, / In the spring time: the onely pretty rang time, / When Birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding. / Sweet Lovers love the spring, / And therefore take the present time, / With a hey, & a ho, and a hey nonino, / For love is crowned with the prime, / In spring time, &c. / Betweene the acres of the Rie, / With a hey, and a ho, & a hey nonino: / These pretty Country folks would ly. / In spring time, &c. / This Carroll they began that houre, / With a boy and a ho, & a hey nonino, / How that a life was but a Flower, / In spring time, &c. / Clo. Truly youg Gentlemen, though there was no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very untunable. / I.Pa. you are deceive’d Sir, we kept time, we lost not our time. / By my troth yes: I count it but time lost to heare such a foolish song. God buy you, and God mend your voices. Come Audrie. / Exeunt.

This scene (Act 5, scene 3 in F2), which is entirely excised, functions as an interlude. Once again it involves Touchstone and Audrey and includes a song. F2 Scene 4 is renumbered here as Scene 3.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Old Duke

F2:

Duke Senior

Original variant.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

hope

F2:

know

Stylistic substitution.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

to Ph:

F2:

Added stage direction.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

keep yours

F2:

Keepe you your word,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

cleer

F2:

even

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

come with me sister

F2:

A rare addition.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

obscured … Audrew

F2:

Enter Clowne and Audrey. / Obscured in the circle of this Forrest.

The stage direction is moved for a more dramatic effect (predating Rowe’s similar move).

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

he swears … court

F2:

he hath bin a Courtier he sweares

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

god … you

F2:

God’ild you sir, I desire you of the like:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

pure

F2:

poore

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

no body

F2:

no man

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sir

F2:

sir, and such dulcet diseases

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

his beard

F2:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

her … his

F2:

his hand with his

Emendation predating Malone (his hand with her).

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

her

F2:

his

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

to ye D:)

F2:

Added stage direction.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

(to Orl:)

F2:

Added stage direction.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

wellcome daughter

F2:

Even daughter welcome

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

the banishd Duke

F2:

his banish’d Brother

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

good … epilogues

F2:

good plaies prove the better by the helpe of good Epilogues

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

women

F2:

(O women)

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

I liked

F2:

lik’d me

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

if he … said

F2:

if again

The syntax in garbled in the Douai manuscript.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

leave

F2:

good leave

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

dy’d

F2:

have died

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

daily

F2:

every day

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

you

F2:

What, you

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

yes sir

F2:

Marry doe I sir

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

you … merrier

F2:

you yet were merrier

Original emendation to correct an error in F2.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

teach me

F2:

learne mee how

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thou to me

F2:

thou

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

come … honor

F2:

in honor come off againe

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

wish

F2:

would

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

the gifts … lineaments

F2:

gifts of the world, not in the lineaments

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

she makes … cutter of

F2:

fortune makes natures naturall, the cutter off

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

perchance

F2:

peradventure

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

the dullness … alwaies

F2:

for alwayes the dulnesse of the foole, is

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

the knight … not

F2:

was not the Knight

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

then … so

F2:

(if I had it) then

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

had intendet to

F2:

would

Error for intended.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

will you

F2:

will tell you

Accidental omission of a word.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

elder

F2:

eldest

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

that … ribs

F2:

breaking of ribbes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

is that … madam

F2:

Is yonder the man? / Le Beu. Even he, Madam

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

yes sir

F2:

I my Liedge

Modernization of diction.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

young sir

F2:

Mounsieur the Challenger

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

your

F2:

this

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

may

F2:

might

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

shall

F2:

shall doe

Accidental omission of a word.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

but … in it

F2:

onely in the world I fill up a place

Omission of a repetition in F2.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thee

F2:

you

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

could

F2:

can

Correction of F2.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sir

F2:

my Liege

Modernization.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

wish

F2:

would

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

some other

F2:

another

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

wants

F2:

lackes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

yes

F2:

Have with you

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

see

F2:

heare

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

most … teeth

F2:

my teeth

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

my old … said so

F2:

God be with my old master, he would not have spoke such a word.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Exeunt

F2:

Ex. Orl. Ad.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

your Bro

F2:

your yonger brother

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

mind

F2:

disposition

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

alltogeather … dispis’d

F2:

altogether misprised

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

banishd

F2:

banished thy Uncle

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

mine to

F2:

mine is to.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

by force

F2:

perforce

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

when

F2:

when I

Possibly a scribal error.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sports

F2:

sports: let me see,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

had

F2:

have

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

moan

F2:

dole

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

will

F2:

You meane to mocke me after: you should not have mockt me before: but

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

son

F2:

heire

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thought

F2:

knowne

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

ensue

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

love … him

F2:

doe you love him

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

this

F2:

these

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

you be

F2:

thou beest

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

alwaies

F2:

still

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

then wants

F2:

lackes then

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

bear

F2:

take

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

and all

F2:

To beare

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

meanes

F2:

time

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

New Duke

F2:

Duke

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

those

F2:

these

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

runawaies

F2:

runawayes. Exeunt.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

step

F2:

gaspe

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

loyalty

F2:

loyalty, / From seventy yeeres, till now almost fourescore / Here lived I, but now live here no more. / At seventeen yeeres, many their fortunes seeke / But at fourescore, it is too late a weeke,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

should

F2:

did

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Cheerfully

F2:

cheerely

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

begun

F2:

began

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

I am

F2:

am I

Emendation predating Pope.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thifts

F2:

shifts

Possibly a scribal error.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

having

F2:

seizure

Suppression of a repetition.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

we do

F2:

do we

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

when … at ease

F2:

the more one sickens, the worse at ease he is

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

that’s without

F2:

that wants

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

the

F2:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

was at

F2:

was’t at

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

at court

F2:

at the court

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

at court

F2:

at the court

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

instance

F2:

instance I say

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

others

F2:

other mens

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

span

F2:

a span

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

never was

F2:

was never

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

scarce

F2:

hardly

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

know

F2:

Tro

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

lord

F2:

Lord, Lord,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

Nay he

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

be but

F2:

will bee

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

at one moment

F2:

in an instant

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

he? Wherein went he?

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

from

F2:

with

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

drops

F2:

droppes forth

Emendation predating Capell.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

put

F2:

bring

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

rather

F2:

as liefe

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

been alone

F2:

beene my selfe alone

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

spoyle

F2:

marre

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

spoyle

F2:

marre

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

we’ll

F2:

wee two

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

shall I

F2:

I shall

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

stay

F2:

tarrie

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

time

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

wants

F2:

lackes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

taxd

F2:

hath generally tax’d

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

their charge

F2:

the charge of women

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

one

F2:

one fault

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

fellow

F2:

fellow-fault

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

the

F2:

our

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

another

F2:

any other

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

nor

F2:

Neither

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

a meer madness

F2:

meerely a madnesse

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

whipd

F2:

punish’d

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

in a corner live

F2:

to live in a nooke

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

take

F2:

take upon me

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

will … is’t

F2:

will; Tell mee where it is

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

whereabout

F2:

where in the Forrest

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sister

F2:

sister will you goe?

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

in … dish

F2:

into an uncleane dish

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

her

F2:

the woman

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

calling

F2:

calling. / Exeunt.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

yes … but

F2:

Do I prethee, but yet

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

have not I

F2:

have I not

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

but

F2:

Marrie

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

does

F2:

comes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

pickpoket

F2:

picke purse

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

hollow

F2:

concave

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

him

F2:

him of

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

travers

F2:

travers athwart

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

my eyes

F2:

mine eye

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

somtime retains

F2:

some moment keepes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

arrow

F2:

arrowes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thou not

F2:

not thou

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

flatter

F2:

flatters

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

once

F2:

earst

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

hatefull

F2:

irkesome

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

holy

F2:

so holy

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

now

F2:

yerewhile

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

was once

F2:

once was

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

I … remember

F2:

I am remembred

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

troth

F2:

faith

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

adieu

F2:

God buy you

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

rather

F2:

leife

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

beholding

F2:

faine to be beholding

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

his

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

yours

F2:

you

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

Orl.

Emendation.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

had … speake

F2:

were better speake first

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

want

F2:

lacke

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

there’s

F2:

there begins

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

were I

F2:

if I were

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

has not one

F2:

was not any man

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

not you

F2:

you not

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

will

F2:

would

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

got

F2:

possest

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

and leave out

F2:

without

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

my life on’t

F2:

By my life

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

else

F2:

Or else

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

shut

F2:

make

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

out … Smoake

F2:

with the smoake out at the chimney

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

man

F2:

A man

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

wilt thou

F2:

wil’t

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

want

F2:

lacke

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

coz

F2:

coz, coz:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

rather

F2:

Or rather

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sleep

F2:

sleepe. / Exeunt.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

know

F2:

knew

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

writing

F2:

writing of

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

want

F2:

lacke

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thus

F2:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

giantlike

F2:

giant rude

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

sweet

F2:

milde

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

these lines

F2:

this love

Original emendation (probably to avoid a repetition in F2).

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

love

F2:

have

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Doe

F2:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

abouts

F2:

in the Purlews

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

eyes

F2:

eye

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

doe so

F2:

so doe

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

before

F2:

before him

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

wish

F2:

would

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

want

F2:

lacke

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

for … Brother

F2:

For your brother, and my sister,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

but

F2:

but they

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

you shall

F2:

shall you

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

very … displeasure

F2:

much ungentlenesse

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

obedience

F2:

observance

Emendation anticipating Malone.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

her

F2:

with hir

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

that

F2:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

marry

F2:

have

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

but

F2:

both

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

the maid

F2:

his daughter

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

that you’l

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

and was like

F2:

and like

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

like a

F2:

as your

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

your

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

that too

F2:

you may avoide that too,

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

a lady for

F2:

a woman to

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

purposing

F2:

purposely

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

rather … breake

F2:

as lief thou didst breake

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

kill

F2:

to kill

Emendation (probably for metrical reasons) predating Capell.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

here

F2:

neere

Emendation (implying a return to F1 here).

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

come goe

F2:

Goe thou

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

confirmers

F2:

confirmer

Emendation predating Pope.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

your

F2:

you

Emendation predating Theobald.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

Exit Orl:

F2:

Stage direction predating Rowe.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

his

F2:

the

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

a desert

F2:

desert

Emendation predating Rowe.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

a tedious

F2:

tedious

Emendation predating Capell.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

F2:

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

you both

F2:

you

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

her foulness

F2:

your foulness

Emendation predating Hanmer.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

you

F2:

thee

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

branches

F2:

bushes

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

nor her

F2:

nor

Emendation predating Rowe.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

shall please

F2:

please

Emendation predating Rowe.

Adopted reading (Douai MS):

thu:

F2:

Thus

Error.

Prosopography

Côme Saignol

Côme Saignol is a PhD candidate at Sorbonne University where he is preparing a thesis about the reception of Cyrano de Bergerac. After working several years on Digital Humanities, he created a company named CS Edition & Corpus to assist researchers in classical humanities. His interests include: eighteenth-century theatre, philology, textual alignment, and XML databases.

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Line Cottegnies

Line Cottegnies teaches early-modern literature at Sorbonne Université. She is the author of a monograph on the politics of wonder in Caroline poetry, L’Éclipse du regard: la poésie anglais du baroque au classicisme (Droz, 1997), and has co-edited several collections of essays, including Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish (AUP, 2003, with Nancy Weitz), Women and Curiosity in the Early Modern Period (Brill, 2016), with Sandring Parageau, or Henry V: A Critical Guide (Bloomsbury, 2018), with Karen Britland. She has published on seventeenth-century literature, from Shakespeare and Raleigh to Ahpra Behn and Mary Astell. Her research interests are: early-modern drama and poetry, the politics of translation (between France and England), and women authors of the period. She has also developed a particular interest in editing: she had edited half of Shakespeare’s plays for the Gallimard bilingual complete works (alone and in collaboration), and, also, Henry IV, Part 2, for The Norton Shakespeare 3 (2016). With Marie-Alice Belle, she has co-edited two Elizabethan translations of Robert Garnier (by Mary Sidney Herbert and Thomas Kyd), published in 2017 in the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translation Series as Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England. She is currently working on an edition of three Behn’s translations from the French for the Cambridge edition of Behn’s Complete Works

Louise Fang

Louise Fang is a Lecturer in English Literature at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. She has published a monograph on Shakespeare and games (Shakespeare et les jeux, Classiques Garnier, 2021) and is working on early modern drama. She is a transcriber and an editor in the Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project.

Mahayla Galliford

Assistant project manager, 2024-present; research assistant, encoder, and remediator, 2021-present. Mahayla Galliford (she/her) graduated with a BA (Hons) English from the University of Victoria in 2024. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early modern stage directions and civic water pageantry. She continues her studies through the UVic English master’s program and focuses on editing and encoding girls’ manuscript writing in collaboration with LEMDO.

Navarra Houldin

LEMDO project manager 2022–present. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.

William Shakespeare

Bibliography

Capell, Edward, ed. Mr William Shakespeare: His Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. 10 vols. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1767–1768. ESTC T138599. Murphy 304.

Hanmer, Thomas. The Works of Mr William Shakespear. 6 vols. London, 1743–1744. ESTC T138604.

Johnson, Samuel, ed. The Plays of William Shakespeare. 8 vols. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1765. ESTC T138601.

Malone, Edmond, ed. The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare. 10 vols. London: J. Rivingston and Sons, 1790. ESTC T138858.

Pope, Alexander, ed. The works of Shakespear. 6 vols. London: Jacob Tonson, 1725. ESTC N26060.

Rowe, Nicholas, ed. The Works of Mr William Shakespear. 6 vols. London, 1709; rpt. 8 vols. 1714. ESTC T138296.

Theobald, Lewis, ed. The works of Shakespeare: in seven volumes. Collated with the oldest copies, and corrected; with notes, explanatory, and critical. 7 vols. London: A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. Tonson, F. Clay, W. Feales, and R. Wellington, 1733. ESTC T138606.

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.

University of Victoria (UVIC1)

https://www.uvic.ca/

Witnesses

Shakespeare, William. Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London: Robert Allot, 1632. STC 22274. ESTC S111233.

Text of Douai MS 787 as transcribed by Louise Fang

Metadata

Authority title	Douai As You Like It: Collation
Type of text	Apparatus
Publisher	Sorbonne Université and University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Series	Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project
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Douai As You Like It: Collation

Witnesses

Prosopography

Côme Saignol

Janelle Jenstad

Line Cottegnies

Louise Fang

Mahayla Galliford

Navarra Houldin

William Shakespeare

Bibliography

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

University of Victoria (UVIC1)

Witnesses

Metadata

The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project