cently known as Le Vexen; ii. | WEATHER; "Pour down thy 1.527. VOLUNTARIES, volunteers; ii. 1. 67. weather" here, give us thy worst news; iv. 2. 109. WHAT! an ejaculation of impa tience; i. 1. 245. WAFT- wafted, borne over the WHAT THOUGH = what does it sea; ii. 1. 73. WAIT UPON = attend; v. 7. 98. WALKS; "wildly. walks," that is, goes to confusion; iv. 2. 128. WALL-EYED, fierce-eyed (perhaps simply with perverted and unnatural vision); iv. 3. 49. WANT, lack; iv. 1. 99. WANTON, one brought up in luxury, an effeminate boy; v. 1. 70. | WANTONNESS, sportiveness; iv. 1. 16. WARN'D = summoned; ii. 1. 201. WATCHFUL; "the watchful minutes to the hour" the minutes which are watchful to, or tell, the hour; iv. 1. 46. WAY; "I come one way of the Plantagenets," that is, my line of descent on one side is from the Plantagenets; v. 6. 11. WEAL, common-weal, or commonwealth; iv. 2. 65; welfare; iv. 2. 66. WEAR OUT, let come to an end; iii. 1. 110. matter! i. 1. 169. WHET ON, incite; iii. 4. 181. WHETHER (the folio has "where"), monosyllabic; i. 1. 75; ii. 1. 167. PREFACE TO KING RICHARD II THE EARLY EDITIONS. Richard II. was first published, in quarto, in 1597, in which year it was entered on the Register of the Stationers' Company. The titlepage of the First Quarto was as follows: "The Tragedie of King Richard the Second, As it hath been publikely acted by the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his Servants. London. Printed by Valentine Simmes for Andrew Wise, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church Yard at the Signe of the Angel. 1597." 1 A Second Quarto, with Shakespeare's name on the title-page, was published in 1597. In the year 1608 a Third Quarto appeared, "with new additions of the Parliament Sceane, and the deposing of King Richard, as it hath been lately acted by the Kinges Majesties servantes, at the Globe." The Fourth Quarto, a mere reprint of this, appeared in 1615. The text of the play in the 1623 Folio was evidently derived from the Fourth Quarto, "corrected with some care, and prepared for stage representation. In the ... 1 See Facsimile editions of this and other Quartos by Messrs. Griggs and Prætorius. |