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APPENDIX D

The Text of the Present Edition

The text of the present volume is, by permission of the Oxford University Press, that of the Oxford Shakespeare, edited by the late W. J. Craig, except for the following deviations:

1. The stage directions of the First Folio have been restored, necessary modern additions being enclosed in square brackets. Passages of text for which the Folio offers no equivalent are similarly bracketed.

2. Many minor changes in punctuation have been made, and the spelling of certain words normalized in accordance with English usage; e.g. everything, swoll'n, villainy. The old forms, murther, murtherer, etc., which occur in the Folio beside murder, murderer, etc., have been retained.

3. The following alterations, most of them reversions to the readings of the First Folio, have been made in the text, the reading of the present text preceding the colon, and that of Craig following it:

I. i. 108 sons F: son

126 T'appease F: to appease

154 grudges F: drugs

487 sware F: swore

II. i. 25 Hollo! F: Holla!

iii. 55 whom F: who

126 braves F: she braves

iv. 17 Hath F: have

III. i. 12 these, tribunes F: these, these, tribunes

36 And bootless,: All bootless

225 flow F: blow

259 my F: thy

ii. 9 Who, when F: And when

60 'But!' How, if that fly had a father and mother?: But how if that fly had a father and a mother?

85 begin F: begins