p. 285, l. 2. C’s stage direction
reads Enter ye Embassadors. from
Seleucus,
Lysimachus, & Ptolomey:
l. 7. C] Greivances? and omits l. 8.
ll. 13 and 14. C prints (not like...open
Enemie)
after
ye’ have hedg’d in and omits as.
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2. Emb. We therefore, as yet the ministers of Peace, of ffriendship, as yet our MASTERS Swords, and Angers sleeping, all former Injuries forgot, and buried, as yet to stop that swelling tide of Blood, (O mightie Sir) that when it comes, like Tempests broke from the raging North, beates all before ’em. We yet crave restitution of those Lands, those Citties sackd*, those PRISONERS, and that PREY, the Soldiers, by your will, stands Master of; Thinck, etc.
l. 19. B] love great, Sir. l. 20. C] you late held. A] hold. l. 31. C omits stage direction. l. 32. C adds]
or War, (though rather I could afford your Age, so
much discretion to leave off brawling now);* The Wars
are doubtfull, and on Our Horsemens Staves, Death
lookes as grimly as on your keene-edgd Swords:
Our darts sure pointed, and from Our sinowye Bowes,
we can raise showres of bloody Shaffts, shall hide
the face of heaven, and cast as deepe Ecclipzes ore
the day, and terrible, as yours: Our Strengthes
are equall; Our hopes, as high, and wanton: Even
our Men the same in Labours, and in Sufferance:
Hunger they dare contemne, as well as yours, and where
they find no Meate, feed on their Angers, march on
the edge of danger; Rest and Sleepe, (the soules of
soft, and tender Bodies) they shake off, as well as
yours: And when tyrde Nature locks up their Spiritts,
yet like Stormes, farr off, even in their Rest, they
raise a warlike Murmurr, we come prepard for either.
{Enter Prince Demetrius
{from
hunting: attended
{wth
yong Gentlemen.
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p. 286, l. 6. A gives Gent to the end of this line, not to line 5. l. 11. C] MASTERS lives. l. 18. A comma has been added at end of line. l. 25. C] now a god speakes. A] Now ’a speakes. l. 35. A and C] at his best. l. 40. C] MUNITION: Or must.
p. 287, l. 3. C] must they. l. 4. A] same field. l. 6. C] their desires. l. 9. A] mortall thinge. l. 18. C] it’s. l. 19. A and C] make. l. 20. C] ’pray and so throughout. l. 22. C] ’pray ye. l. 25. C] to ’ye. l. 29. C] ’pre-thee and so throughout. l. 37. C omits] Madam, my service— l. 38. A] and ’t. ll. 39 and 40. C omits] 2.
p. 288, l. 1. A gives this line to Cel. l. 6. C] ffare ye well. l. 13. C omits] 3. l. 14. C omits] yet. l. 18. C] answeares. l. 25. C] 1. Emb. l. 31. C omits] Gentlemen. l. 34. C] beg that. l. 36. C] growne weake, and old.
p. 289, l. 1. B] yer. l. 5. C] teach me. l. 11. C] O blesse. l. 22. C omits] 2. l. 26. C omits] now. l. 29. A] thinkes. l. 36. A and C] a wing.