Cymbeline (1924) Yale/Appendix C
APPENDIX C
The Text of the Present Edition
The text of the present edition is, by permission of the Oxford University Press, based on that of the Oxford Shakespeare, edited by the late W. J. Craig. Stage directions, when not bracketed, are from the First Folio; bracketed stage directions are modern.
In the following list of variants from the Oxford text, the readings of this edition precede, and Craig's readings follow, the colon. The Folio authority is given wherever involved.
I. i. 116 cere: sear Ff
I. i. 117 bands: bonds Ff
I. i. 132 heap'st Ff: heap'st instead
I. iv. 68 constant-qualified: constant, qualified Ff
I. iv. 151 a friend Ff: afraid
I. iv. 177 understand Ff: understand that
I. v. 68 change thou chancest: chance thou changest Ff
I. v. 83 primroses: prime-roses Ff
I. vi. 22 Imo. reads Ff : Imo.
I. vi. 24 trust Ff: truest
I. vi. 122 self exhibition Ff1, 4: self-exhibition Ff2, 3
II. ii. 32 sense Ff: senses
II. iii. 126 foil Ff: soil
II. iv. 6 fear'd Ff: sear'd
II. iv. 21 order'd Ff: ordered
II. iv. 24 mingled Ff2, 3, 4 (F1 wing-led): winged
II. iv. 75 So rarely Ff : rarely
II. v. 2 bastards Ff: bastards all
II. v. 27 may be named Ff2, 3, 4 (Fl name): man may name
III. i. 20 oaks Ff: rocks
III. ii. 42, 43 would even Ff: would not even
III. iv. 104 mine eyeballs Ff: mine eyeballs blind
III. iv. 135 nothing: F1 nothing; F2 nothing? Ff3, 4 nothing Cloten
III. iv. 177 will Ff: you'll
III. v. 9 your Grace, and you Ff: your Grace. Qu. And you!
III. v. 44 the loudest of (th' lowd of Ff): the loudest
III. v. 95 once, Ff: once
III. vi. 73 After long absence Ff: After a long absence
IV. i. 21 happily Ff: haply
IV. ii. 112 cause of fear Ff: cease of fear
IV. ii. 170 thou thyself F1 (thyself Ff2, 3, 4): how thyself
IV. ii. 207 but ay: but I Ff
IV. ii. 237 to our mother Ff: our mother
V. i. 20 mistress; peace Ff: mistress-piece
V. iii. 92 leg Ff: lag
V. iv. 60 Leonati Ff: Leonati's
V. v. 393 interrogatories Ff: inter-gatories