The Douai Project: Douai Twelfth Night: Collation

Douai Twelfth Night: 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.

This edition:

spright … quick

F2:

spirit of Love, how quicke and fresh

While the Douai MS tends on the whole to modernize the spelling, here the scribe uncharacteristically chooses the archaic word spright over spirit, probably for metrical reasons.

This edition:

prize

F2:

price

This edition:

fierce

F2:

fell

Modernization of the lexis typical of the Douai MS.

This edition:

bring back

F2:

return

This edition:

kite

F2:

Knight

Probably a scribal error for Knight (F2).

This edition:

himselfe

F2:

himselfe, / (Courage and hope both teaching him the practise)

This edition:

hope

F2:

hope, / Whereto thy speech serves for authority

This edition:

after

F2:

also

This edition:

enclose black treason

F2:

close in pollution

This edition:

bounteously pay thee

F2:

pay thee bounteously

Simple reversals like these, which are common in the Douai MS, are only occasionally flagged in the collation.

This edition:

may

F2:

shall

This edition:

permit

F2:

commit

This edition:

exceptions att

F2:

great exceptions to

This edition:

if … too

F2:

these cloathes are good enough to drinke in, and so be these boots too: and they be not,

This edition:

without

F2:

word for word without

This edition:

he’s almost a natural

F2:

almost naturall

This edition:

any … throat

F2:

a passage in my throat, and drink in Illyria

This edition:

top

F2:

top. What wench? Castiliano vulgo

The Douai scribe tends to excise absurd jokes.

This edition:

Andrew

F2:

Andrew Agueface

This edition:

woe … her

F2:

front her, boord her, wooe her,

This edition:

letst … part

F2:

let part

This edition:

my hand

F2:

my had. / Mar. Now sir, thought is free: I pray you bring your hand to’th Buttry barre, and let it drinke. / An. Wherefore (sweet-heart?) What’s your Metaphor?.

Two lines omitted, perhaps because of the sexual double entendre they contain.

This edition:

ends

F2:

ends: marry now I let goe your hand, I am barren.

This edition:

life

F2:

life I thinke, unlesse you see Canary put downe: me thinkes sometimes I have no more wit then a Christian, or an ordinary mans ha’s: but

This scene as a whole is slightly abridged, and here the scribe leaves out an irreverent joke on the intelligence of Christians.

This edition:

bear baiting

F2:

beare-bayting: O had I but followed the Arts

This edition:

question

F2:

question, for thou seest it will not coole my nature

This edition:

distaff

F2:

distaffe: and I hope to see a huswife take thee between her legs, & spin it off

Omission of a bawdy joke.

This edition:

I’ll … home

F2:

Faith Ile home

This edition:

have … himself

F2:

not be seene, or if she be it’s four to one, she’l none of me the Count himself here hard

Cut, probably out of a desire to abridge the scene.

This edition:

herselfe

F2:

her degree

This edition:

they … curtain

F2:

these things a Curtain

This edition:

walk

F2:

so much as make water

Omission of a scatological allusion.

This edition:

mean, I

F2:

meane? Is it a world to hide vertues in? I

Omission of an irreverent reference to virtue.

This edition:

strong: shall

F2:

strong, and it does indifferent well in a dam’d colour’d stocke. Shall

This edition:

constitution

F2:

excellent constitution

This edition:

apparell

F2:

attire

This edition:

Duke

F2:

Count

Here and throughout, the scribe consistently restores the right title, thus correcting an inconsistency in F2 where Orsino is described alternatively as a Duke and a Count.

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F2:

wth

Scribal error.

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sharp

F2:

sound

This edition:

else

F2:

or be

This edition:

oftentimes

F2:

very oft

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take … fellows

F2:

Doe you not heare fellowes, take away the Lady.

This passage includes a number of small changes, word substitutions, or mostly reversals in the order of groups of words which are not all noted.

This edition:

mend

F2:

amend

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if not

F2:

if it will not

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bid … I

F2:

bad take away the foole, therefore I

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sirra … bid

F2:

Sir, I bad

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degree: good

F2:

degree. Lady, Cucullus non facit monachum: that’s as much to say, as I weare not motley in my braine: good

The omitted passage includes what could have been perceived as an offensive reference to churchmen, in particular monks, in the Catholic context of Douai.

This edition:

you Madona

F2:

(Madona)

This edition:

foole

F2:

foole, Gentlemen

This edition:

to increase

F2:

for the better increasing

This edition:

run

F2:

put

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stone

F2:

stone. Looke you now, he’s out of his gard already: unlesse you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gag’d. I protest I take these Wisemen, that crow so at these set kind of fooles, no better then the fooles Zanies

The omitted passage, critical of jesters, also implies a satire of those who allow them the freedom to rail.

This edition:

appetite

F2:

appetite. To be generous, guitlesse, and of free disposition, is to take those things for Birdbolts, that you deeme Cannon bullets: There is no slander in an allow’d foole, though he doe nothing but rayle; nor no rayling, in a knowne discreet man, though he doe nothing but reprove. / Clo. Now mercury indue thee with leasing, for thou speak’st well of fooles

The omitted passage is a plea for the freedom to rail. It seems the editor of the Douai manuscript had little tolerance for satire and humor.

This edition:

brains … kindred

F2:

braines, for heere he comes. Enter Sir Toby. / One of thy kin

This edition:

mads … foole

F2:

makes him a foole, the second maddes him

These kinds of permutations, not always indicated here, are frequent in the Douai MS.

This edition:

malice

F2:

malice, I sweare

This edition:

such a Dialogue

F2:

so skipping a dialogue

This edition:

secrets

F2:

as secret as a maiden-head

Expurgation of a bawdy passage.

This edition:

will you

F2:

will you not

The scribe edits F2 to get rid of an unnecessary double negation.

This edition:

no.

F2:

no: my starres shine darkely over me;

This edition:

the leave to

F2:

your leave that I may

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you must

F2:

No sooth, sir, my determinate voyage is meere extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me, what I am willing to keepe in: therefore it charges me in manners, the rather to expresse my selfe: you must

A cut; this scene is consistently abridged.

This edition:

drownded

F2:

drown’d

This edition:

beautifull.

F2:

beautifull: but though I could not,with such estimable wonder over-farre beleeve that, yet thus farre I will boldly publish her, she bore a mind that envy could not but call faire:

This edition:

done … not

F2:

done, that is kill him, whom you have recouer’d, desire it no. Fare ye well at once, my bosome is full of kindnesse, and I am yet so neere the manners of my mother, that upon the least occasion more, mine eyes will tell tales of me:

This edition:

spared … pains

F2:

saved me my paines

This edition:

took

F2:

made

This edition:

bootless

F2:

thriftlesse

The play is full of such lexical substitutions.

This edition:

soon

F2:

betimes

This edition:

troth … I

F2:

by my troth I know not: but I know

Accidental omission of know.

This edition:

cann ... lives

F2:

Canne, To be up after midnight, and to goe to bed then is early: so that to goe to be after midnight, is to goe to bed betimes. Does not our lives

This edition:

breast

F2:

breast. I had rather then foty shillings I had such a legge, and so sweet a breath to sing, as the foole has

This edition:

politians

F2:

politicians

Spelling error?

This edition:

tilly vally

F2:

Am I not of her blood: tilly vally

This edition:

your Catches

F2:

your Coziers Catches

This edition:

bid

F2:

bad

This edition:

welcome

F2:

welcome to the house

This edition:

F2:

Scribal error.

This edition:

right

F2:

right. Goe sir, rub your Chaine with crums

This edition:

love

F2:

favour

This edition:

this night

F2:

to night

This edition:

he’s … perswaded

F2:

The div’ll a Puritane that he is, or any thing constantly but a time-pleaser, an affection’d Asse, that Cons State without booke, and utters it by great swarths. The best perswaded

Cut; the passage is abridged, but the omission of a reference to the devil and to Malvolio’s puritanism could be significant.

This edition:

Lady … scarce

F2:

Lady your Neece, on a forgotten matter we can hardly

This edition:

an ass … not

F2:

Asse, I doubt not

This edition:

and … letter

F2:

and let the Foole make a third, where he shall find the Letter: observe this construction of it:

This edition:

trus

F2:

trust

Scribal error.

This edition:

the

F2:

these

This edition:

jeaster

F2:

Iester my Lord, a foole that the Lady Oliviaes Father tooke much delight in. He is about the house.

This edition:

feature

F2:

favour

This edition:

fade

F2:

fall

This edition:

and song

F2:

The Song. / Come away, come away death, / And in sad cypresse let me be laid, / Fye away, fie away breath, / I am slaine by a faire cruell maid. / My shrowd of white, stucke all with Ew, O prepare it. / My part of death no one so true did share it. / Not a flower, not a flower sweet / On my blacke coffin, let there be strewne: / Not a friend, not a friend greet / My poore corpes, where my bones shall be throwne: / A thousand thousand sighes to save, lay me O where / Sad true lover never find my grave, to weepe there.

In the other plays copied in the Douai MS, the scribe often leaves sound effects out, perhaps to reflect different staging conditions. While this might again be the case here, the excision of one of one of Feste’s songs, although his first two songs are included, might have also something to do with the fact that it is a digression not essential to the action.

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F2:

Duk.

The scribe edits F2, which erroneously attributes this speech to the Duke.

This edition:

Fare … well

F2:

I would have men of such constancy put to Sea, that their businesse might be every thing, and their intent every where, for that’s it, that alwayes makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell

This edition:

had … her

F2:

hath bestow’d upon her, / Tell her I hold as giddily as Fortune:

This edition:

of of

F2:

Scribal error.

This edition:

sonns

F2:

brothers

An original emendation introduced by the scribe, which restores a symmetry with daughters.

This edition:

my … delay

F2:

Thy love can give no place, bide no denay

Emendation: The scribe corrects an error that F2 (Thy) introduced into the text (which was not in F1). The emendation replaces a rare word, denay (in the sense of denial) by delay.

This edition:

Rascally

F2:

niggardly Rascally

This edition:

shall we

F2:

shall we not

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of of

F2:

Scribal error.

This edition:

Jezabell

F2:

Iezabel. / Fa. O peace, now he’s deepely in: looke how imagination blowes him

Fabian’s part is abridged in the Douai text.

This edition:

peace

F2:

Oh peace, peace

This edition:

telling … Toby

F2:

and after a demure travaile of regard: telling them I know my place, as I would they should doe theirs: to aske for my kinsman Toby

This edition:

shackles

F2:

shackles. / Fa. Oh peace, peace, peace, now, now

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goe

F2:

make out

This edition:

perhaps

F2:

perchance

This edition:

live?

F2:

live? / Fa. Though our silence be drawne from us with cares, yet peace.

The scribe omits an obscure line; cares is usually emended as cars. Another instance of Fabian’s speech being cut.

This edition:

what

F2:

What employment

This edition:

Lucrse’s

F2:

Lucresse

Scribal error.

This edition:

but

F2:

There is no obstruction in this, and the end;

This edition:

he’s … Scent

F2:

O I, make up that, he is now at a cold sent. / Fab. Sowter will cry upon’i for all this, though it be as ranke as a Fox

This edition:

the cur

F2:

Did not I say he would worke it out, the Curre

This edition:

behind you

F2:

at your heeles

The scribe’s eye was probably caught by the same phrase in the preceding line.

This edition:

al these

F2:

This simulation is not as the former: and yet to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for every one of these

This edition:

servants

F2:

servants: Let thy tongue tang arguments of State; put thy selfe into the tricke of singularity

This edition:

fare well

F2:

Farwell. Shee that would alter services with thee, the fortunate unhappy daylight and champian discovers not more

This edition:

will strange

F2:

will be strange

Scribal omission.

This edition:

cross gartered

F2:

crosse garter’d even with the swiftnesse of putting on

This edition:

no dowry

F2:

no other dowry

This edition:

Slave

F2:

bondslave

This edition:

observe

F2:

marke

This edition:

live

F2:

live by the Church: for I doe live

A joke at the expense of the church is abridged.

This edition:

lives

F2:

dwells

This edition:

may may

F2:

may

Erroneous repetition.

This edition:

I am

F2:

shee will keepe no foole sir, till she be married, and fooles are as like husbands, as Pilchers are to Herrings, the husbands the bigger, I am

This edition:

bargain

F2:

commodity

This edition:

one

F2:

one, though I would not have it grow on my chinne

The scribe leaves out the bawdy joke.

This edition:

my Lady

F2:

Would not a paire of these have bred sir? / Vio. Yes, being kept together, and put to use. / Clo. I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring a Cressida to this Troylus. / Vio. I understand you sir, ’tis well begg’d. / Clo. The matter I hope is not great sir; begging, but a begger: Cressida was a begger. My Lady

An expurgation that cancels a reference to Pandarus as a bawd and Cressida as a prostitute.

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and

F2:

Not in F2. This and changes the meaning of the sentence: F2 suggests that who Cæsario is and what he wants are both out of the fool’s depth.

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starrs

F2:

speares

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did send

F2:

did send, / After the last enchantment you did heare,

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you too

F2:

me you

This edition:

F2:

oft

Transcription error.

This edition:

loss

F2:

waste

This edition:

truth … thing

F2:

honor, truth, and every thing

This edition:

hide

F2:

hide: / Doe not extort thy reasons from this clause, / For that I wooe, thou therefore hast no cause: / But rather reason thus, with reason fetter; / Love sought, is good: but given unsought, is better.

This edition:

reason

F2:

reason. / Fabia. You must needs yeeld your reason, Sir Andrew.

This edition:

Duke’s

F2:

Counts

This edition:

that kindness

F2:

favour to the youth in your sight

This edition:

liver … slip

F2:

Liver: you should then have accosted her, and with some excellent jests (fire-new from the mint) you should have bangd the youth into dumbenesse: this was look’d for at your hand, and this was baulkt: the double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash off, and

Fabian’s part is consistently abridged in the play.

This edition:

rather

F2:

as lief

This edition:

Duke’s … reputation

F2:

Counts youth to fight with him hurt him in eleven places, my Neece shall take note of it, and assure thy selfe, there is no love-Broker in the world, can more prevaile in mans commendation with woman, than report

This edition:

invention. let

F2:

invention: taunt him with the license of Inke: if thou thou’st him some thrice, it shall not be amisse, and as many Lyes, as will lye in thy sheete of paper, although the sheete were big enough for the bed of Ware in England, set ’em downe, goe about it. Let

The scribe excises some of the most extravagant and farcical lines in the play.

This edition:

we shall

F2:

This is a deere Manakin to you Sir Toby. / Tob. I have beene deere to him lad, some two thousand strong, or so. / Fa. We shall

This edition:

carry

F2:

deliver

This edition:

by all

F2:

by all meanes

One word omitted by the scribe.

This edition:

open … fly

F2:

if he were open’d and you find so much blood in his Liver, as will clog the foot of a flea

This edition:

Heathen, for

F2:

Heathen, a very Renegatho; for

This edition:

desires

F2:

means

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villanously … He

F2:

villanously: like a Pedant that keepes a Schoole i’th Church: I have dogg’d him like his murtherer. He does obey every point of the Letter that I dropt, to betray him: He

The scribe has excised a reference to religious schooling, which might have echoed with the situation of the Douai exiles.

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I can

F2:

you have not seene such a things as tis: I can

This edition:

My Lady

F2:

I know my Lady

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he is.

F2:

he is. / Exeunt Omnes

A rare instance of the omission of a stage direction indicating an exit.

This edition:

F2:

your

This edition:

Duke

F2:

Count

This edition:

if any … at

F2:

if I be lapsed in

This edition:

opee

F2:

open

Scribal spelling error.

This edition:

you

F2:

your Ladyship

This edition:

he’s … mad

F2:

sure the man is tainted in’s wits

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goe

F2:

This edition:

meer

F2:

very

This edition:

Ladyshop

F2:

Ladyships pleasure

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Toby

F2:

Toby, let some of my people have a speciall care of him

This edition:

him

F2:

him on purpose

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so forth

F2:

so forth. I have lymde her, but it is Ioves doing, and Iove make me thankefull

Omission of a passage in which Malvolio attributes his alleged good fortune to God (as Jove).

This edition:

object

F2:

prospect

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here … sir?

F2:

Heere he is, heere he is: how ist with you sir? How ist with you man?

Fabian’s lines are abridged again.

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be … private

F2:

enjoy my private

Omission of a line with bawdy implications.

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within him.

F2:

within him, did not I tell you?

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goe to … Malvolio

F2:

Goe to, goe to: peace, peace, we must deale gently with him: Let me alone. How doe you Malvolio? How ist with you

This edition:

look you

F2:

La you

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Fab: no way

F2:

To. Prethee hold thy peace, this is not the way: Doe you not see you move him? Let me alone with him. / Fa. No way

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I come

F2:

I biddy, come

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shadows

F2:

shallow things

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thee

F2:

the device

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not it

F2:

not the matter

This edition:

Agewcheek. If this

F2:

Ague-cheeke. To. If this

The scribe corrects an error in F2, where this line is attributed to Sir Toby (probably instead of Fabian); the Douai scribe merges it into Toby’s previous speech.

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shortly

F2:

by and by

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draw and swear

F2:

draw, and as thou draw’st sweare

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accent

F2:

accent sharpely twang’d off

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himself

F2:

it selfe

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the youth

F2:

the youth: he will finde it comes from a Clodde-pole

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gentleman,

F2:

Gentleman (as I know his youth will aptly receive it)

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stone / There’s

F2:

stone, / And laid mine honour too vnchary on’t: / There’s

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despight … tuck

F2:

despight, bloody as the Hunter, attends thee at the Orchard end: dismount thy tucke, be yare in thy preparation,

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I … any

F2:

my remembrance is very free and cleere from any image of offence done to any man

This scene is considerably abridged.

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therefor … incarnate

F2:

therefore, if you hold your life at any price, betake you to your gard: for your opposite hath in him what youth, strength, skill, and wrath, can furnish man withall

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rapier … anger

F2:

Rapier, and on carpet consideration, but he’s a divell in private brall, soules and bodies hath he divorc’d three, and his incensement

This edition:

some …try

F2:

some kind of men, that put quarrells purposely on others; to taste

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from … house

F2:

out of a very computent injury, therefore get you on, and give him his desire. Backe you shall not to the house, unlesse you undertake that with me, which with as much safety you might answer him? therefore on, or strippe your sword starke naked

This edition:

you ask … him is

F2:

you doe me this courteous office, as to know of the Knight what my offence to him is: it is something of my negligence, nothing of my purpose

This edition:

you but

F2:

you, even to a mortall arbitrement, but

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devill: they

F2:

divell, I have not seene such a firago: I had a passe with him, rapier, scabber’d, and all: and he gives me the stucke in with such a mortall motion that is inevitable: and on the answer, he payes your as surely, as your feete hits the ground they step on. They

This edition:

him … horse

F2:

him. Let him let the matter slip, and I’ll give him my horse, gray Capilet

This edition:

him

F2:

him: and pants, and lookes pale, as if a Beare were at his heeles

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sake, therefor

F2:

sake: marry he hath better bethought him of his quarrell, and he finds that now scarse to be worth talking of: therefore

This edition:

a little

F2:

a little thing

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the Gentle … sake

F2:

there’s no remedy, the Gentleman will for his honors sake have one bout with you: he cannot by the Duello avoid it

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sir

F2:

sir: and for that I promis’d you Ile be as good as my word. He will beare you easily, and raines well

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Duke

F2:

Count

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what will you doe?

F2:

This comes with seeking you: / But there’s no remedy, i shall answer it: / What will you doe? now my necessity / Makes me to aske you for my purse. I greeves me / Much more, for what I cannot doe for you, / Then what befals my selfe:

This scene is abridged.

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feature

F2:

feature: / I hate ingratitude more in a man, / Then lying, vainness, babling drunkennesse, / Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption / Inhabites our fraile blood.

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this youth

F2:

Let me speake a little. This youth

This edition:

shame. / vertue

F2:

shame, / In Nature, there’s no blemish but the mind: / None can be call’d deform’d, but the unkind.

This edition:

Fabian

F2:

Fabian: Well whisper ore a couplet or two of most sage sawes

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boy …him

F2:

boy, and more a coward then a Hare, his dishonesty appeares, in leaving his friend heere in necessity, and denying him: and for this cowardship aske Fabian

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Coward

F2:

Coward, religious in it.

A cut of a passage which associates the word religious with cowardice.

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you … name

F2:

you, nor I am not sent to you by my Lady, to bid you come speake with her: nor your name.

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foole. I am

F2:

foole. Vent my folly: I am

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stay … have

F2:

tarry longer, I shall give

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two pence

F2:

two pence. / To. Come on sir, hold.

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him, tho

F2:

him, if there be any law in Illyria: though

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against against

F2:

against

Erroneous repetition.

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gowne

F2:

gowne, and this beard,

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in it

F2:

in’t, and I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a Gowne. I am not tall enough to become the function well, nor leane enough to be thought a good Student: but to be said an honest man, and a good Housekeeper goes as fairely, as to say, a carefull man, and a great Scholler

This cut suggests again a particular sensitivity to comments that are critical of churchmen, and here of students as well.

This edition:

Sir Toby

F2:

sir Toby: for as the Hermit of Prage, that never saw Pen and Inke, very wittily said to a Neece of King Gorbodacke, that that is, is: so I being M. Parson, am M. Parson; for what is that, but that? and is, but is?

The obscure joke is left out.

This edition:

Sathan

F2:

Sathan: I call thee by the most modest termes, for I am one of those gentle ones, that will use the Divell himselfe with curtesie

Omission of a playful reference to the devil.

This edition:

hell … there of

F2:

hell; and I say that was never man thus abus’d, I am no more madde than you are, make the triall of it

This edition:

perchance

F2:

happily

This could be an attempt by the scribe to tone down the radicality of the conjecture.

This edition:

F2:

approve

This edition:

well delivred … free

F2:

rid of this knavery. If hee may be conveniently deliver’d, I would he were

This edition:

unto me

F2:

to mee, Asses

Another disparaging remark about priests is left out.

This edition:

here

F2:

here. Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore: endevour thy selfe to sleepe, and leave thy vaine bibble babble.

This edition:

chid

F2:

shent

This edition:

I wish

F2:

Well-a-day,

This edition:

good fool … write

F2:

By this hand I am: good foole, some Inke, Paper, and Light: and convey what I will set downe

This edition:

I will

F2:

I will helpe you too’t

This edition:

find

F2:

seek

This edition:

servants … dispatch

F2:

followers, / Take, and give backe affaires, and their dispatch

This edition:

prove

F2:

This edition:

recieve

F2:

desire

This edition:

abused

F2:

abused: so that conclusions to be a kisses, if your foure negatives make your two affirmatives, why then the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

This edition:

to to

F2:

Scribal error.

This edition:

all. the bells

F2:

all: the triplex sir, is a good tripping measure, or the bels

This edition:

thereto did ad

F2:

did thereto adde

This edition:

perfect madness

F2:

madness

This edition:

Love … hear

F2:

love: (a savage jealousie, / That sometime savours nobly) but heare

This edition:

sacrifice … love

F2:

sacrifice the Lambe that I doe love

Omission, which could be accidental, of the word Lamb. The latter, however, might have had a blasphemous implication in a Catholic context.

This edition:

glad

F2:

apt

This edition:

can he … it

F2:

Can he that deny

This edition:

lately

F2:

newly

This edition:

too

F2:

to: for the love of God your helpe, I had rather than forty pound I were at home.

A reference to God in a comic context is left out.

This edition:

Dukes … Cæsario

F2:

Counts Gentleman, one Cesario

This edition:

he’s … set on

F2:

here he is: you broke my head for nothing, and that that I did, I was set on to doo’t

This edition:

here

F2:

If a bloody Coxecombe be a hurt, you have hurt me: I thinke you set nothing by a bloody Coxecombe, Heere

This edition:

other wayes

F2:

other gates

This edition:

an end ont

F2:

th’end on’t. Sot, didst see Dicke Surgeon sot? / Clo. O he’s drunke sir above an houre agone: his eyes were set at eight i’th morning. / To. Then he’s a Rogue after a passy measures Pavin: I hate a drunken Rogue.

The speeches of drunk Toby are consistently abridged.

This edition:

with them

F2:

with them? / And. Ile helpe you Sir Toby, because we’ll be drest together. / To. Will you helpe an Asse-head, and a Coxecombe, and a Knave: a thinne-fac’d Knave, a Gull?

Cut.

This edition:

were you

F2:

A spirit I am indeed, / But am in that dimension grosly clad, / Which from the Wombe I did participate. / Were you

The passage was perhaps left out because it includes a joke on the word spirit.

This edition:

his help

F2:

whose gentle help

This edition:

by ass

F2:

bias

Possibly a misreading.

This edition:

sooner

F2:

to day morning

This edition:

madness

F2:

madness: and your Ladyship will have it as it ought to be, you must allow Vox.

This edition:

doe … thus

F2:

doe Madona: but to read his right wits, is to reade thus: therefore, perpend my Princesse, and give eare

This edition:

know it.

F2:

know it: Though you have put mee into darkenesse, and give your drunken Cozen rule over me, yet

This edition:

shame … leave

F2:

shame: Thinke of me as you please. I leave

This edition:

letter

F2:

Letter. / You must not now deny it is your hand, / Write from it if you can, in hand, or phrase, / Or say, ’tis not your seale, not your invention: / You can say none of this. Well, grant it then, / And tell me in the modesty of honour, / Why you have given me such cleare lights of favour, / Bad me come smiling and crosse-garter’d to to you, / To put on yellow stockings, and to frowne / Vpon sir Toby, and the lighter people: / And acting this in an obedient hope, / Why have you suffer’d me to be imprison’d, / Kept in a darke house, visited by the Priest, / And made the most notorious gecke or gull, / That ere invention plaid on? Tell me why?

A long cut that leaves out the passage in which Malvolio recalls his humiliating treatment, which repeats what we have seen.

This edition:

read … letter

F2:

Not in F2.

An added stage direction.

This edition:

importunity

F2:

great importance

This edition:

greatnes

F2:

great

Probably a misreading.

This edition:

convenes

F2:

convents

In the sense of is fitting (OED v. 5, variant of convenes). An interesting correction given the Catholic context of Douai.

This edition:

Queen

F2:

Queene. Exeunt. / Clowne sings. / When that I was and a little tine Boy, / with hey, ho, the winde and the raine: / A foolish thing was but a toy, / for the raine it raineth every day. / But when I came to mans estate / with hey, ho, &. / Gainst knaves and theeves men shut their gate, / for the raine &. / But when I came alas to wive, / with hey, ho, &. / By swaggering could I never thrive, / for the raine, &. / But when I came unto my beds, / with hey, ho, &. / With Tospots still had drunken heads, / for the raine, &. / A great while agoe the world begon, / with hey, ho, &. / But that’s all one, our Play is done, / and wee’l strive to please you every day.

See annotation.

This edition:

vice

F2:

vice in him

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, LʼÉclipse 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 Shakespeareʼs 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 Behnʼs translations from the French for the Cambridge edition of Behn’s Complete Works

Navarra Houldin

Project manager 2022–present. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.

William Shakespeare

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.

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 Twelfth Night: Collation
Type of text	Apparatus
Short title	Douai TN: Collation
Publisher	Sorbonne Université and University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Series	Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project
Source	Collation prepared by Line Cottegnies
Editorial declaration	Edited according to the Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project 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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Douai Twelfth Night: Collation

Witnesses

Prosopography

Côme Saignol

Eric Rasmussen

Janelle Jenstad

Line Cottegnies

Navarra Houldin

William Shakespeare

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

Witnesses

Metadata

The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project