The Douai Project: Douai Macbeth: Collation

Douai Macbeth: Collation

Witnesses

[F2]:

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

[This edition]: Text of Douai MS 787 as transcribed by Line Cottegnies and the Sorbonne team.

Adopted reading (This edition):

ofserve

F2:

observe

An obvious mistake.

Adopted reading (This edition):

quarrel

F2:

quarry

Emendation which predates Hanmer to whom it is usually attributed.

Adopted reading (This edition):

when … done

F2:

When the Hurley-burleys done, / When the Battailes lost and wonne.

Adopted reading (This edition):

’fore … sun.

F2:

ere the set of Sunne,

Adopted reading (This edition):

they meet

F2:

meeting

Adopted reading (This edition):

tel

F2:

say

Adopted reading (This edition):

how didst thou

F2:

As thou didst

Adopted reading (This edition):

this great

F2:

the

Adopted reading (This edition):

macdonnell … supplied

F2:

Macdonnell / (Worthy to be a Rebell, for to that / The multiplying VIllaines of Nature / Doe swarme upon him) from the Western Isles / Of Kernes and Gallow glasses is supply’d

An omission which clarifies the thought.

Adopted reading (This edition):

whore all’s

F2:

Whore: but all’s

Adopted reading (This edition):

the

F2:

that

Adopted reading (This edition):

unto

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

gives

F2:

gins

An original emendation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

those

F2:

these

Adopted reading (This edition):

truth

F2:

sooth

This is consistent with the modernization of the lexis in the Douai MS.

Adopted reading (This edition):

for doubly they

F2:

so they doubly

Adopted reading (This edition):

whether

F2:

Except

Adopted reading (This edition):

to the Surgeon

F2:

Surgeons

Adopted reading (This edition):

Skyes

F2:

Sky

Adopted reading (This edition):

wth manlike … arm

F2:

with selfe-comparisons, / Point against Point, rebellious Arme gainst Arme,

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

That now

Adopted reading (This edition):

grant

F2:

deigne

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

doth

Adopted reading (This edition):

madding

F2:

insane

Adopted reading (This edition):

hail / came puffing posts

F2:

Tale / Can post with post

Emendations usually first attributed to Rowe. See Annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

brave

F2:

great

Adopted reading (This edition):

truth?

F2:

Truth? I am Thane of Cawdor.

Adopted reading (This edition):

leysure

F2:

time

Adopted reading (This edition):

leaving

F2:

the leaving

Adopted reading (This edition):

trifle

F2:

careless Trifle

Adopted reading (This edition):

know

F2:

finde

Adopted reading (This edition):

our Duties are both

F2:

And our Duties are

Adopted reading (This edition):

less

F2:

No lesse

Perhaps a misreading.

Adopted reading (This edition):

stars of nobleness on all shall shine

F2:

signes of Nobleness, like Starres shall shine / On all deservers

Adopted reading (This edition):

night

F2:

Light

An original emendation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Macbeths Lady alone reading

F2:

Macbeths Wife alone with

Adopted reading (This edition):

letter

F2:

Letter. / Lady. They meet me in the day of successe: and I have learn’d / by the perfectst report, they have more in them, then mortall / knowledge. When I burnt in desire to question them further, / they made themselves Ayre, into which they vanish’d. Whiles / I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came Missiues from the King, / who all hail’d me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title before, these / weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr’d me to the comming on / of time, with haile King that shalt be. This have I thought / good to deliver thee (my dearest Partner of Greatnesse) that thou might’st not loose the dues of rejoycing by being ignorant / of what Greatnesse is promis’d thee. Lay it to thy heart, and / farewell.

Adopted reading (This edition):

win.

F2:

winne. / Thouldst have, great Glamis, that which cryes, / Thus thou must doe, if thou have it; / And that which rather thou do’st feare to doe, / Then wishest should be undone.

Adopted reading (This edition):

impedes thee

F2:

thee hinders

Adopted reading (This edition):

newes.

F2:

newes. Exit Messenger.

The messenger does not exit in the Douai MS.

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

hit

An emendation (which can be found in F3 and F4) correcting an error of F1 and F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

blackest

F2:

dunnest

Adopted reading (This edition):

sharp

F2:

keene

Adopted reading (This edition):

Enter

F2:

Hoboyes, and Torches. Enter

Omission of sound and light effects.

Adopted reading (This edition):

the aire

F2:

This Guest of Summer, / The Temple-haunting Barlet does approve, / By his loued Masonry, that the Heavens breath, / Smells wooingly here: no Iutty frieze, / Buttrice, nor Coigne of Vantage, but this Bird / Hath made his pendant Bed, and procreant Cradle, / Where they must breed, and haunt: I have observ’d / The ayre

Omission of a long flowery descriptive passage, perhaps for dramatic efficiency.

Adopted reading (This edition):

trouble

F2:

our trouble

Adopted reading (This edition):

thank … present

F2:

bid god eyld us for your paines / And thank us for your

Adopted reading (This edition):

many … wide

F2:

honors deepe, and broad

Adopted reading (This edition):

mind

F2:

purpose

Adopted reading (This edition):

night.

F2:

night. / Lady. Your Servants ever, / Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs in compt, / To make their Audit at your highness pleasure, / Still to returne your owne.

Cut perhaps to serve dramatic efficacy.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Divers … Stage

F2:

Enter a Sewer, and divers Servants wiht Dishes and Service over the Stage.

Adopted reading (This edition):

well

F2:

done

Adopted reading (This edition):

the all and end all

F2:

the be all, and the end all

Adopted reading (This edition):

ingredients

F2:

Ingredience

Adopted reading (This edition):

murtherers

F2:

Murtherer

Adopted reading (This edition):

upon

F2:

Vpon the

Adopted reading (This edition):

other side

F2:

other.

Adopted reading (This edition):

doe … would

F2:

Letting I dare not, wait upon I would.

Adopted reading (This edition):

proverb

F2:

Addage

Adopted reading (This edition):

his

F2:

the

Adopted reading (This edition):

drownd in death

F2:

as in a Death

Adopted reading (This edition):

sin

F2:

great quell

Adopted reading (This edition):

griefe and Clamors

F2:

Griefes and Clamor

Adopted reading (This edition):

bloody

F2:

terrible

Adopted reading (This edition):

thinck

F2:

take’t

Adopted reading (This edition):

officers

F2:

Offices

Adopted reading (This edition):

hot

F2:

heat-

Adopted reading (This edition):

glistring … drops

F2:

blade, and Dudgeon, gouts

Adopted reading (This edition):

my dim

F2:

to mine

Adopted reading (This edition):

stealing

F2:

stealthy

Adopted reading (This edition):

steps,

F2:

steps, which they may walk

A faulty line in F2, corrected in Douai.

Adopted reading (This edition):

the

F2:

thy

Adopted reading (This edition):

are

F2:

have

Adopted reading (This edition):

my selfe

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

themselves

F2:

each other

Adopted reading (This edition):

fell

F2:

addrest them

Adopted reading (This edition):

I am … more.

F2:

Ile goe no more: / I am afraid, to thinke what I have done: / Looke on’t againe, I dare not.

Adopted reading (This edition):

pluck

F2:

pluck out

Adopted reading (This edition):

lett us goe

F2:

Retyre

Adopted reading (This edition):

thoughts

F2:

deed

Adopted reading (This edition):

wish

F2:

would

Adopted reading (This edition):

dressing … while.

F2:

Knocking within.

Addition of stage business (the porter dressing himself).

Adopted reading (This edition):

who’s … coming.

F2:

if a man were / Porter of Hell Gate, hee should have old turning the / Key. Knocke, Knock, Knock, Knock. Who’s there / i’th’name of Belzebub? Here’s a Farmer, that hang’d / himselfe on th’expectation of Plenty: Come in time, have / Napkins enough about you, here you’le sweat for’t. Knock. / Knock, Knock. Who’s there in th’other Devils Name? / Faith here’s an Equivocator, that could sweare in both / the Scales, against eyther Scale, who committed Treason / enough for Gods sake, yet could not equivocate to Hea- / ven: oh come in, Equivocator, Knock. Knock, / Knock, Knock. Who’s there? Faith here’s an English / Taylor come hither, for stealing out of a French Hose: / Come in Taylor, here you may rest your Goose. Knock. / Knock, Knock, Never at quiet: What are you? but this / place is too cold for Hell. Ile Devill-Porter it no further: / I had thought to have let in some of all professions, that / goe the Primrose way to th’everlasting Bonfire. Knock. / Anon, anon, I pray you remember the Porter.

The porter’s cues are excised; see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

(Opens the doore)

F2:

A stage direction added in Douai.

Adopted reading (This edition):

cock … master

F2:

Cock: / And Drinke, Sir, is a great provoker of three things. / Macd. What three things does Drinke especially / provoke? / Port. Marry, Sir, Nose-painting, Sleepe, and Vrine. / Lechery, Sir, it provokes, and unprovokes: it Provokes / the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore / much Drinke may be said to be an Equivocator with Le- / chery: it makes him and it marres him; it sets him on, / and it takes him off; it perswades him, and disheartens / him; makes him stand to, and not stand to: in conclusion, / equivocates him in a sleepe, and giving him the Lye, leaves / him. / Macd. I beleeve, Drinke gave thee the Lye last Night. / Port. That it did, Sir, i’the very Throat on me: but I / requited him for his Lye, and (I thinke) being too strong / for him, though he tooke up my Legges sometime, yet I / made a Shift to cast him. / Enter Macbeth. / Macd. Is thy Master

A long cut which leaves out the porter’s drunk speech; see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

this

F2:

The labour we delight in, Physicks paine. / This

Adopted reading (This edition):

all the

F2:

the live long

Adopted reading (This edition):

seems

F2:

seem’d

Adopted reading (This edition):

now

F2:

yet

Adopted reading (This edition):

make it

F2:

make’s love

Adopted reading (This edition):

horse

F2:

House

An error introduced in F2 (not in F1) which the scribe corrects.

Adopted reading (This edition):

then

F2:

Thriftless Ambition, that will raven upon / Thine owne lives meanes: Then

Adopted reading (This edition):

old

F2:

Not in F2

Adopted reading (This edition):

blessing

F2:

benyson

Substitution of a more modern word for an archaic one.

Adopted reading (This edition):

just as the witches

F2:

As the weyward Women

Adopted reading (This edition):

they

F2:

it was

Adopted reading (This edition):

Enter

F2:

Senit sounded. Enter

One of several sound effects that are dispensed with in the Douai MS.

Adopted reading (This edition):

lay your commands on

F2:

Command upon

Adopted reading (This edition):

If … fast

F2:

Goe not my Horse the better,

Adopted reading (This edition):

two

F2:

twaine

Modernization of lexis as is typical of Douai MS.

Adopted reading (This edition):

disposd

F2:

bestow’d

Adopted reading (This edition):

Hie

F2:

When therewithall we shall have cause of State, / Craving us joyntly. Hye

Adopted reading (This edition):

the

F2:

his

Adopted reading (This edition):

till

F2:

While

Adopted reading (This edition):

witches

F2:

Sisters

Adopted reading (This edition):

filld

F2:

fil’d

Adopted reading (This edition):

and find

F2:

Know, that it was he, in the times past, / Which held you so under forturne, / Which you thought had beene our innocent selfe, / This I made good to you, in our last conference, / Past in probation with you: / How you were borne in hand, how crost: / The Instruments: who wrought with them: / And all things else, that might / To halfe a Soule, and to a Notion craz’d, / Say, Thus did Banquo. / 1. Murth. You made it knowne to us. / Macb. I did so: / And went further, which is now / Our point of second meeting. / Doe you finde

A long cut that leaves out the convoluted justification for why the Murderers should hate Banquo; the argument is summarized below, however.

Adopted reading (This edition):

I … misery

F2:

Instead of a cut, this passage is an addition that summarizes the argument of the section the editor has excised above. Additions of this nature are very rare.

Adopted reading (This edition):

careless

F2:

recklesse

Adopted reading (This edition):

neerest

F2:

neer’st of

Adopted reading (This edition):

must

F2:

must not

Adopted reading (This edition):

and … fathers:

F2:

Alwayes thought, / That I require a clearenesse; and with him / To leave no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke: / Fleans, his Sonne, that keepes him companie, / Whose absence is no lesse materiall to me, / Then is his Fathers,

Adopted reading (This edition):

this night

F2:

to Night

Adopted reading (This edition):

Dolefull frenzies

F2:

sorryest Francies

An original emendation (Francies was Fancies in F1).

Adopted reading (This edition):

then

F2:

Whom we, to gayne our place, have sent to peace: / Then

Adopted reading (This edition):

point

F2:

Poyson, / Malice domestique, forraine Levie, nothing,

Adopted reading (This edition):

frisk

F2:

bright

Adopted reading (This edition):

plain

F2:

sleeke

Adopted reading (This edition):

you

F2:

your

Probably a transcription error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

wash

F2:

lave

Adopted reading (This edition):

eternall

F2:

eterne

Emendation; see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

all the crows make

F2:

the Crow makes

Adopted reading (This edition):

hang their heads

F2:

droope, and drowse,

Adopted reading (This edition):

strengthen themselves with

F2:

make strong themselves by

Adopted reading (This edition):

Then

F2:

2. He needes not our mistrust, since he delivers / Our Offices, and what we have to doe, / To the direction just. / 1. Then

A rather convoluted sentence left out in Douai.

Adopted reading (This edition):

done.

F2:

done. / Exeunt.

Adopted reading (This edition):

you are

F2:

At first and last, the

Adopted reading (This edition):

All

F2:

Lords

Adopted reading (This edition):

I … yt

F2:

that I did

Adopted reading (This edition):

but

F2:

As broad, and generall, as the casing Ayre: / But

Adopted reading (This edition):

lies

F2:

bides

Adopted reading (This edition):

bloody

F2:

trenched

Adopted reading (This edition):

it.

F2:

it; never shake / Thy goary lockes at me,

Adopted reading (This edition):

eat

F2:

Feed,

Adopted reading (This edition):

Impostures

F2:

Imposters

Emendation; see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

look … behold.

F2:

Behold, looke, loe, how say you:

Adopted reading (This edition):

why?

F2:

What?

Adopted reading (This edition):

former times

F2:

olden time

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

I do

Adopted reading (This edition):

all.

F2:

all; and him we thirst, / And all to all.

Adopted reading (This edition):

proclaim

F2:

protest

Adopted reading (This edition):

good

F2:

good meeting

Scribal error: omission of a word.

Adopted reading (This edition):

strange

F2:

admir’d

Adopted reading (This edition):

you … wonder.

F2:

And overcome us like a Summers Clowd, / Without our speciall wonder? You make me strange / Even to the disposition of that I owe,

Adopted reading (This edition):

white

F2:

blanchd

Adopted reading (This edition):

sights

F2:

signes

Emendation which corrects an error of F2 (also in F3, and F4).

Adopted reading (This edition):

our

F2:

our great

Adopted reading (This edition):

bribd

F2:

Feed

Adopted reading (This edition):

gone on

F2:

Spent in

Adopted reading (This edition):

come … rest.

F2:

Come, weel to sleepe; My strange & self-abuse / Is the initiate feare, that wants hard use: / We are yet but young indeed.

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

the three

Adopted reading (This edition):

much too

F2:

over

Adopted reading (This edition):

spurne …fate

F2:

spurne Fate, scorne Death

Adopted reading (This edition):

greatest

F2:

chiefest

Adopted reading (This edition):

calls

F2:

stayes

Adopted reading (This edition):

againe.

F2:

againe. Exeunt.

Adopted reading (This edition):

subjects

F2:

thralles

Adopted reading (This edition):

no more of this.

F2:

But peace; for from broad words, and cause he fayl’d / His presence at the Tyrants Feast;

Adopted reading (This edition):

ye … lives

F2:

The Sonnes of Duncane / (From whom this Tyrants holds the due of Birth) / Live

Adopted reading (This edition):

to … him;

F2:

upon his ayd

Adopted reading (This edition):

doth … the

F2:

Hath so exasperate their

Adopted reading (This edition):

Roung

F2:

Round

Transcription error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

double. &c

F2:

Double, double, toyle and trouble, / Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.

The magic incantation is summarized in the Douai MS (here and further down).

Adopted reading (This edition):

slab.

F2:

slab. / Adde thereto a Tigars Chawdron, / For th’ Ingredience of our Cawdron.

Adopted reading (This edition):

double. &c

F2:

Double, double, toyle and trouble, / Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.

The magic incantation is again summarized in the Douai MS (here as above).

Adopted reading (This edition):

other

F2:

the other

Douai introduces a welcome precision here, as the other three witches (needed for the song) have not been introduced yet.

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

shall share

Adopted reading (This edition):

song.

F2:

a Song. Blacke Spirits, &c.

The title of the song is left out, perhaps because it mentions devils, but it could also be the case the song was no longer familiar by 1694.

Adopted reading (This edition):

speake

F2:

aske you

Adopted reading (This edition):

aske

F2:

Speake

Adopted reading (This edition):

thou must

F2:

deaftly

Adopted reading (This edition):

hit

F2:

harp’d

Adopted reading (This edition):

who

F2:

where

Adopted reading (This edition):

Dunsiman high

F2:

high Dunsinane

Adopted reading (This edition):

command

F2:

impress

Adopted reading (This edition):

never rise

F2:

rise never

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

may

Scribal error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

alwaies cursed

F2:

aye accursed

Adopted reading (This edition):

indeed.

F2:

indeed my Lord.

Adopted reading (This edition):

(pauses)

F2:

The flighty purpose never is o’re-tooke / Vnlesse the deed go with it, From this moment / The very firstling of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand. And even now / To Crown my thoughts with Acts: be it thought & done:

Adopted reading (This edition):

I’ll … deed

F2:

This deed Ile do,

Adopted reading (This edition):

where

F2:

But no more sights. Where

Adopted reading (This edition):

your husband’s

F2:

I pray you schoole your selfe, But for your Husband, / He is Noble,

Adopted reading (This edition):

season.

F2:

Season. I dare not speake much further, / But cruell are the times, when we are Traitors / And do not know our selves: when we hold Rumor / From what we feare, yet know not what we feare, / But floate upon a wilde and violent Sea / Each way, and move.

Adopted reading (This edition):

my … you

F2:

Shall not be long but Ile be here againe: / Things at the worst will cease, or else climbe upward, / To what they were before. My pretty Cosine, / Blessing upon you. / Wife. Father’d he is, / And yet hee’s Fatherlesse. / Rosse. I am so much a Foole, should I stay longer / It would be my disgrace, and your discomfort. / I take my leave at once.

The role of Ross in this scene is almost entirely excised, and the scene is considerably abridged.

Adopted reading (This edition):

they

F2:

they. / Wife. Poore bird, / Thoud’st never Feare the Net, nor Line, / The Pitfall, nor the Gin. / Son. Why should I Mother? / Poore Birds they are not set for:

Adopted reading (This edition):

was

F2:

Then you’i by’em to sell againe. / Wife. Thou speak’st with all thy wit. / And yet I’faith with wit enought for thee. / Son. Was

Adopted reading (This edition):

yes.

F2:

I, that he was

Adopted reading (This edition):

Who

F2:

And must they all be hang’d, that swear and lye? / Wife. Every one. / Son. VVho

Adopted reading (This edition):

soon

F2:

quickly

Adopted reading (This edition):

dame

F2:

Dame: I am not to you knowne, / Though in your state of honour I am perfect;

Adopted reading (This edition):

I dare

F2:

To fright you thus, Me thinkes I am to savage: / To do worse to you, were fell Cruelty, / VVhich is too nie your person. Heauen preserve you, / I dare

Adopted reading (This edition):

harme

F2:

harme. But I remember now / I am in this earthly world: where to doe harme / Is often laudable, to doe good sometime / Accounted dangerous folly. Whty then (alasre) / Doe I put up that womanly defence, / To say I had done no harme?

Adopted reading (This edition):

down … right

F2:

downfall Birthdome: each new Morne, / New Widdowes howle, new Orphans cry, new sorowes / Strike Heaven on the face, that it resounds / As if it felt with Scotland, and yell’d out / Like Syllable of Dolour.

Adopted reading (This edition):

a poor

F2:

a weake, poore

Adopted reading (This edition):

fell.

F2:

fell. / Though all things foule, would wear the brows of grace / Yet Grace must still looke so.

See annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

bonds

F2:

knots

Adopted reading (This edition):

taking leave

F2:

leave-taking

Adopted reading (This edition):

then is

F2:

In evils, to top

Adopted reading (This edition):

greedy

F2:

stanchlesse

Adopted reading (This edition):

anothers

F2:

this others

Adopted reading (This edition):

quarrells

F2:

Quarrels unjust

Adopted reading (This edition):

riches

F2:

Foysons

Adopted reading (This edition):

what’s your

F2:

your meere

Adopted reading (This edition):

vertue

F2:

Verity

Adopted reading (This edition):

fit

F2:

Not in F2

Adopted reading (This edition):

said

F2:

spoken

Word substitution to avoid a repetition.

Adopted reading (This edition):

when

F2:

With an untitled Tyrant, bloody Sceptred

A cut which leaves out a passage that might have had a political resonance for Catholic exiles at the end of the seventeenth century.

Adopted reading (This edition):

coming hither

F2:

heere approach

Adopted reading (This edition):

all ready

F2:

Already

Adopted reading (This edition):

hath

F2:

hath Heaven

About the double omission of Heaven and heavenly below, see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

stump

F2:

stampe

Possibly a transcription mistake.

Adopted reading (This edition):

the gift

F2:

a heavenly guift

About the double omission of heavenly here and Heaven above, see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

hand

F2:

hang

Transcription error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

meanes

F2:

meanes, the meanes

Correction of an unnecessary repetition in F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

before

F2:

or ere

Adopted reading (This edition):

breeds

F2:

teems

Adopted reading (This edition):

nobles

F2:

Fellowes

Adopted reading (This edition):

yours

F2:

your

Transcription error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

shake … disasters

F2:

doffe their dire distresses

Adopted reading (This edition):

old

F2:

good

Adopted reading (This edition):

catch

F2:

latch

Adopted reading (This edition):

lett … quickly

F2:

quickly let me have it

Adopted reading (This edition):

let us

F2:

Come

Adopted reading (This edition):

we … Hellish

F2:

Our lacke is nothing but our leave. Macbeth

Adopted reading (This edition):

Doctor

F2:

Doctor of Physick

Adopted reading (This edition):

find

F2:

perceive

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

A great perturbation in Nature, to receive at / once the benefit of sleepe and do the effects of watching. / In

Adopted reading (This edition):

more … her

F2:

That Sir, which I will not report after her

Adopted reading (This edition):

fit

F2:

meet

Adopted reading (This edition):

See here

F2:

Lo you, here

Adopted reading (This edition):

fast

F2:

This is her very guise, and upon my life fast

Adopted reading (This edition):

continually.

F2:

continually, ’tis her command.

Adopted reading (This edition):

usuall

F2:

accustom’d

Adopted reading (This edition):

here’s … yet

F2:

Yet heere’s a spot.

Adopted reading (This edition):

you

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

mind

F2:

marke

Adopted reading (This edition):

Lord.

F2:

Lord, no more o’that:

Adopted reading (This edition):

starting

F2:

stating

Correction of an error in F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

whole

F2:

whole body.

Adopted reading (This edition):

well: this

F2:

well, well. / Gent. Pray God it be sir. / Doct. This

Adopted reading (This edition):

come,

F2:

come, come, come,

Adopted reading (This edition):

to bed.

F2:

to bed, to bed.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Phisitian

F2:

Physitian: / God, God forgive us all. Looke after her, / Remove from her the meanes of all annoyance, / And still keepe eyes upon her: So goodnight: / My minde she ha’s mated, and amaz’d my sight.

The role of the Doctor is abridged.

Adopted reading (This edition):

them.

F2:

them: for their deere causes / Excite the mortified man.

Adopted reading (This edition):

we … coming

F2:

Shall we meet them, that way are they comming.

Adopted reading (This edition):

reason

F2:

Rule

Adopted reading (This edition):

since

F2:

Now

Adopted reading (This edition):

not … of

F2:

Nothing in

Adopted reading (This edition):

lett … on

F2:

Well, march we on,

Adopted reading (This edition):

truly due … byrnam.

F2:

truly ow’d: / Meet we the Med’cine of the sickly Weale, / And with him powre we in our Countries purge, / Each drop of us. / Lenox. Or so much as it needs, / To dew the Soveraigne Flower, and drowne the Weeds / Make we our March towards Birnam. Exeunt marching

A cut, with some reformulation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

faint

F2:

taint

Emendation, see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

sanguine ore

F2:

over-red

Original emendation, see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Patch,

F2:

slave

Emendation for an unusual word.

Adopted reading (This edition):

heart … I

F2:

heart, / When I behold: Seyton, I say, this push / Will cheere me ever, or disease me now, / I

Adopted reading (This edition):

there’s … yet

F2:

Tis not needed yet.

Adopted reading (This edition):

skirt

F2:

skirr

Original emendation, see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

thy Phisick

F2:

Physicke

Adopted reading (This edition):

Doctor … cast

F2:

Seyton, send out. Doctor, the Thanes flye from me: / Come sir, dispatch. If thou could’st Doctor, cast

Adopted reading (This edition):

stable

F2:

pristine

Adopted reading (This edition):

I’ll … death

F2:

Pull’t off I say, / What Rubarb, Cæny, or what Purgative drug / Would scowre these English hence: heast thou of them? / Doct. I my good Lord: your Royall preparation / Makes us heare something. / Mac. Bring it after me: / I will not be afraid Death and Bane.

Omission of a rather obscure passage ini F2.

Adopted reading (This edition):

find

F2:

draw

Adopted reading (This edition):

Enter

F2:

Drums and Colours. Enter

Another instance of sound effects and martial display being left out.

Adopted reading (This edition):

cut

F2:

hew

Adopted reading (This edition):

hope

F2:

hope: / For where there is advantage to be given, / Both more and lesse have given him the Revolt, / And none serve with him, but constrained things, / Whose hearts are absent too. / Macd. Let our best Censures / Before the true event, and put we on / Industrious Souldiership.

Long cut, perhaps to serve dramatic efficiency.

Adopted reading (This edition):

Soldiers

F2:

Souldiers, with / Drum and Colours

Another instance of sound effects and martial display being left out.

Adopted reading (This edition):

them up

F2:

the Ague eate them up:

Scibal error.

Adopted reading (This edition):

backd

F2:

forc’d

Adopted reading (This edition):

boldly

F2:

darefull

Adopted reading (This edition):

feard

F2:

cool’d

Adopted reading (This edition):

night shrieke

F2:

Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire / Would at a dismall Treatise rowze, and stirre / As life were in’t

Adopted reading (This edition):

Murderous

F2:

slaughterous

Adopted reading (This edition):

hereafter

F2:

hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word: / To morrow, and to morrrow, and to morrow, / Creepes in this petty pace from day to day, / To the last Syllable of Recorded time: / And all our yesterdayes, have lighted Fooles / The way to study death.

See annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

truth

F2:

sooth

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

Adopted reading (This edition):

staying

F2:

tarrying

Adopted reading (This edition):

Enter

F2:

Drummes and Colours. Enter

Another instance of sound effects and display of military being left out.

Adopted reading (This edition):

grow

F2:

’gin

Adopted reading (This edition):

Exeunt

F2:

exeu. / Alarums continued.

Adopted reading (This edition):

feare

F2:

feare, or none

Adopted reading (This edition):

dreadfull

F2:

fearefull

Adopted reading (This edition):

all

F2:

But

Adopted reading (This edition):

swords

F2:

staves

Adopted reading (This edition):

unbloody

F2:

undeeded

Emendation, see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

doe. enter

F2:

doe. / Malc. We have met with Foes / That strike beside us. / Seyw. Enter

Adopted reading (This edition):

F2:

But

Adopted reading (This edition):

speake thee

F2:

give thee out

Adopted reading (This edition):

unfeeling

F2:

intrenchant

Emendation, see annotation.

Adopted reading (This edition):

sharp

F2:

keen

Adopted reading (This edition):

Ross

F2:

Ross, Thanes

Adopted reading (This edition):

wanting

F2:

missing

Adopted reading (This edition):

untill

F2:

but till

Adopted reading (This edition):

pearles

F2:

Pearle

Adopted reading (This edition):

Exeunt

F2:

Flourish. Exeunt

Another instance of sound effects being left out.

Adopted reading (This edition):

usure

F2:

unsure

Scribal error

Adopted reading (This edition):

with them

F2:

before him

Adopted reading (This edition):

would

F2:

should

Adopted reading (This edition):

and

F2:

I, and

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.

Eric Rasmussen

Eric Rasmussen is Regents Teaching Professor and Foundation Professor of English at the University of Nevada. He is co-editor with Sir Jonathan Bate of the RSC William Shakespeare Complete Works and general editor, with Paul Werstine, of the New Variorum Shakespeare. He has received the Falstaff Award from PlayShakespeare.com for Best Shakespearean Book of the Year in 2007, 2012, and 2013.

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

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

Shakespeare, William. Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies: Published according to the true originall copies. London: William Jaggard, 1623. STC 22273. ESTC S111228. DEEP 5081.

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 Line Cottegnies and the Sorbonne team.

Metadata

Authority title	Douai Macbeth: 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
Source	Born-digital, peer-reviewed collation prepared by Line Cottegnies for publication in the Douai 1.0 anthology on the LEMDO platform
Editorial declaration	Edited according to the Douai Manuscript Project’s Editorial Procedures
Edition	Released with The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project 1.0
Sponsor(s)	The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project Anthology Lead: Line Cottegnies. The project is a scientific collaboration between Sorbonne Université and the University of Victoria.
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Document status	published, peer-reviewed
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Douai Macbeth: Collation

Witnesses

Prosopography

Côme Saignol

Eric Rasmussen

Janelle Jenstad

Line Cottegnies

Mahayla Galliford

Navarra Houldin

William Shakespeare

Bibliography

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

University of Victoria (UVIC1)

Witnesses

Metadata

The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project