Pope has:

'where is that Devil's butcher,

Richard hard-favour'd Richard, where art thou?'

Theobald:

'where is that Devil-butcher,

Richard hard-favour'd Richard, where art thou?'

Capell :

'Where is that butcher, Richard?

Hard-favour'd Richard? Richard, where art thou?'

NOTE XII.

v. 6. We have retained the stage direction of the Folios 'on the walls' instead of adopting Capell's alteration a Room in the Tower', as it seems likely that the mistake lies in the expression another room' (1.92) which was retained from the older play, the author forgetting that he had changed the scene to the walls.

NOTE XIII.

v. 7. 25. The copy of the first Folio belonging to Lord Ellesmere has in this place 'add' for 'and.' In line 27, the same copy reads ''tis' for 'kis,' which latter is the word found so far as we know in all other copies.

NOTE XIV.

v. 7. 30. Steevens says: In my copy of the second Folio, which had belonged to King Charles the First, his Majesty has erased Cla. and written King, in its stead. Shakespeare, therefore, in the catalogue of his restorers may boast a Royal name.'

KING RICHARD III.

KING EDWARD the Fourth.

EDWARD, Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward V.

RICHARD, Duke of York,

GEORGE, Duke of Clarence,

RICHARD, Duke of Gloucester, afterwards

King Richard III.,

A young son of Clarence.

sons to

the King.

brothers to the King.

HENRY, Earl of Richmond, afterwards King Henry VII.
CARDINAL BOURCHIER, Archbishop of Canterbury.

THOMAS ROTHERHAM, Archbishop of York.

JOHN MORTON, Bishop of Ely.

DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

DUKE OF NORFOLK.

EARL OF SURREY, his son.

EARL RIVERS, brother to Elizabeth.

MARQUIS OF DORSET and LORD GREY, sons to Elizabeth.

EARL OF OXFORD.

LORD HASTINGS.

LORD STANLEY, called also EARL OF DERBY.

LORD LOVEL.

SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN.

SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF.

SIR WILLIAM CATESBY.

SIR JAMES TYRREL.

SIR JAMES BLOUNT.

SIR WALTER HERBERT.

SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY, Lieutenant of the Tower.
SIR WILLIAM BRANDON.

CHRISTOPHER URSWICK, a priest. Another Priest.

3

TRESSEL and BERKELEY, gentlemen attending on the Lady Anne.
Lord Mayor of London. Sheriff of Wiltshire.

ELIZABETH, queen to King Edward IV.
MARGARET, widow of King Henry VI.

DUCHESS OF YORK, mother to King Edward IV.

LADY ANNE, widow of Edward Prince of Wales, son to King
Henry VI.; afterwards married to Richard.

A young daughter of Clarence (MARGARET PLANTAGENET). Ghosts of those murdered by Richard III., Lords and other Attendants; a Pursuivant, Scrivener, Citizens, Murderers, Messengers, Soldiers, &c.

SCENE: England.

1 DRAMATIS PERSONE.] First given, imperfectly, by Rowe.

2 BOURCHIER,] Capell. BOUCHIER, Knight.

3 TRESSEL] TRUSSEL French conj.

THE TRAGEDY

OF

KING RICHARD III.

Glou.

ACT I.

SCENE I. London. A street.

Enter RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, solus.

Now is the winter of our discontent

Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house

In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting

THE TRAGEDY...] See note (1).
London. A street.] Capell. The
Court. Pope.

1 our] QQFf. om. Q3 Q4QQ6 Q7Q8°
sour Strutt conj.

2 sun] Rowe. sonne Qq. Son Ff.
3 lour'd] lourd Q1Q2Q3Q4Q5. lowr'd
QFf. low'r Q7. lowr Q8.

barbed steeds

4 bosom] bowels Qg.

buried.] buried, Vaughan conj.

7 alarums] alarmes Q1

8 measures] pleasures Q4Q5Q6Q7Q89 wrinkled wringled Q3Q4Q5 10 instead] QQs in steed QF2 sted Q. in stead The rest.

5

10

in

To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;

15

grace

I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world; scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable

That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;

while

dames

Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun,
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king

bate

22 unfashionable] unfashionably Pope. 23 by them] at them Q7Q8.

24 Why] While Qg

26 spy] Qq. see Ff.

27 on] one Q7.

29 days] dames Malone conj.
31 hate] bate Johnson conj.

32 inductions] inductious Q1Q-
33 By...dreams,] Transferred to follow
line 35 by Johnson.