I. i. 120. 'venom-mouthed'; Pope's reading; Folios read, 'ven-
om'd-mouth'd.'

I. i. 152. 'Whom from the flow of gall I name not,' etc.; i.e.
whom I mention, not because I am still angry,'; etc.

I. i. 167. 'renching'; the Camb. ed. 'rinsing.' Pope's unneces-
sary emendation of the Folio reading 'wrenching,' which is evi-
dently an error for 'renching,' a provincial English cognate of
'rinse,' both words being ultimately derived from the same Scan-
dinavian original, rinse, through the medium of French, rench, a
direct borrowing (Collier MS., 'wrensing').

I. i. 172. 'count-cardinal'; Pope proposed 'court-cardinal.'

I. i. 176. 'Charles the Emperor,' viz., Charles V., Emperor of
Germany; Katharine was his mother's sister.

I. i. 200. 'Hereford'; Capell's reading; Folios, 'Hertford.'

I. i. 204, 206. The meaning of these unsatisfactory lines seems
to be, as Johnson explained, "I am sorry to be present, and an
eye-witness of your loss of liberty."

I. i. 211. 'Abergavenny'; Folios, 'Aburgany,' the usual pro-
nunciation of the name.

I. i. 217. 'Montacute'; Folios read, 'Mountacute'; Rowe reads,
'Montague.'

I. i. 219. 'chancellor'; Theobald's correction; Folios 1, 2 read,
Councellour.'

I. i. 221. 'Nicholas Hopkins'; Theobald's correction (from Hol-
inshed) of Folios, 'Michaell' (probably due to printer's confusion
of 'Nich' with 'Mich').

I. ii. 67. 'business'; Warburton's emendation of Folios, 'baseness.'

I. ii. 147. 'Henton'; ie. Nicholas Hopkins, "a monk of an
house of the Chartreux Order beside Bristow, called Henton
( Holinshed); there is no need to emend the text.

I. ii. 164. 'confession's seal'; Theobald's emendation (following
Holinshed) of Folios, 'commissions.'

I. ii. 170. 'To gain'; the reading of Folio 4; Folios 1, 2, 3 read,
'To'; Collier MS. reads, 'To get'; Grant White, 'To Win.'

I. ii. 179. 'for him'; Capell's emendation of 'For this' of the
Folios; Collier MS. reads, 'From this'; etc.

I. ii. 190. 'Bulmer'; Folios read, 'Blumer': Pope, 'Blomer.'

I. iii. 13. 'Or springhalt'; Verplanck's (Collier conj.) emenda-
tion of Folios, 'A springhalt'; Pope, 'And springhalt.'

I. iii. 34. 'wear'; the reading of Folios 2, 3, 4; Folio 1 reads,
'wee'; Anon. conj., 'oti.'

I. iii. 59. 'has wherewithal'; Folios, 'ha's,' probably an error
for ''has,' i.e. '(he) has.'

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