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Q = win 87 SH LEAR Nothing? … Nothing . = F.
Not in
Q 103 sisters = F. Q = sisters, to loue my father all. 110 mysteries = F2. F = miseries. Q = mistresse night = F. Q = might 118 shall … bosom = F. Q = Shall 136 shall = F. Q = still 151 falls = F. Q = stoops Reserve thy state = F. Q = Reuerse thy doome 158 pawn = F. Q = a pawne 159 ne’er = F. Q = nor 164 SH LEAR = Q. F =
Kear
. 165 SH KENT = Q. F =
Lent
. 167 Miscreant = F. Q = recreant 168 SH ALBANY … forbear . = F.
Not in
Q SH CORDELIA
some editors expand
F’s
Cor. to Cornwall
170 gift = F. Q = doome 175 strained = F. Q = straied 176 sentences = F
corrected
. F
uncorrected
, Q = sentence 179 Five = F. Q = Foure 180 disasters = F. Q = diseases 181 sixth = F. Q = fift 182 next = Ed. F, Q = tenth 187 Freedom = F. Q = Friendship 194 SH CORDELIA = F
(corrected). Some editors expand to Cornwall
. Q =
Glost
. 213 Dowered = F. Q = Couered 225 object = F. Q = best obiect 234 Should = F. Q = Could 237 will = F. Q = well 238 make known = F. Q = may know 248 but = F. Q = no more but 252 regards = F. Q = respects 255 king = F. Q =
Leir
263 respect and fortunes = F. Q = respects / Of fourtune 270 my = F. Q = thy 286 Love = F. Q = vse 291 SH REGAN = F
(Regn)
. Q =
Gonorill
292 SH GONERIL = F. Q =
Regan
295 want = F. Q = worth 296 plighted = F. Q = pleated 297 with shame derides = F. Q = shame them derides 306 not been = Q. F = beene 319 sit = F. Q = hit
    1.2.1 SH EDMUND = Ed. F, Q =
Bast. (throughout)
13 tirèd = F. Q = lyed 18 fine word, ‘legitimate’ = F.
Not in Q 21 to
th’legitimate = F.
Sometimes emended to
top the legitimate 24 Prescribed = F. Q = subscribd 38 o’erlooking = F. Q = liking 53 wake = F. Q = wakt 55 you to this = F. Q = this to you 67 declined = F. Q = declining 80 that … writ = F. Q = he hath wrote 81 other = F. Q = further 99–104 This … graves = F.
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Q 106–7 honesty! ’Tis strange = F. Q = honest, strange strange 111 stars = F. Q = the starres 113 spherical = F. Q = spirituall 117 a star = F. Q = Starres 119 I should = F. Q = Fut, I should. 120 maidenliest
spelled
maidenlest
in
F
and
Q 121 bastardizing = F. Q = bastardy 122 Pat = F. Q =
Edgar;
and out 123 sigh … o’Bedlam = F. Q = sith like them of Bedlam 124 Fa … mi . = F.
Not in
Q 130 writes = F. Q = writ 146–49 I … brother? = F.
Not in
Q 150 I am = F. Q = go arm’d, I am
    1.3.0 SD
Steward
= F. Q =
Gentleman
3 SH OSWALD = Ed. F = Ste. Q =
Gent. (throughout)
14 I’d = F.
Sometimes emended to
I’ll 15 distaste = F. Q = dislike 17 have said = F. Q = tell you 20 so . = F. Q = so. I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall, That I may speak: 21 course. Prepare = F. Q = very course, goe prepare
    1.4.1 will = F. Q = well 6 So … thy = F. Q = thy 7 SD
Horns … Attendants
= F. Q =
Enter Lear
43 SD
Enter Steward appears one line later in
F 49 SH KNIGHT = F
(spelled
Knigh
here and on two other occasions in Act 1 scene 4)
. Q =
Kent
daughter = Q. F = Daughters 51 SH KNIGHT = F. Q =
seruant (throughout)
57 of kindness appears = F. Q = apeer’s 66 purpose = F. Q = purport 73 SD
Enter Steward placed one line later in
F 78 these = F. Q = this your pardon = F. Q = you pardon me 80 strucken = F. Q = struck 86 Have … So = F. Q = you haue wisedome 93 SH LEAR Why, my boy? = F. Q =
Kent
. Why Fool? 102 all my = F. Q = any 106 the Lady Brach = F. Q = Ladie oth’e brach 107 gall = F. Q = gull 110 nuncle = F. Q = vncle 121 SH KENT = F. Q =
Lear
130 one = F. Q = foole 141 grace = F. Q = wit 143 And = F. Q = They to = F. Q = doe 152 fool = F. Q = fooles 164 You = F. Q = Methinks you 166 frowning = F. Q = frowne 171 nor crust = F. Q = neither crust nor crumb = Q. F = not crum 173 shelled
spelled sheal’d in F, sheald in
Q 188 know = F. Q = trow 193 I = F. Q = Come sir, I your = F. Q = that 195 transport = F. Q = transforme 199 This = F. Q = why this 201 weakens, his = F. Q = weaknes, or his 202 Ha! Waking? = F. Q = sleeping or wakeing; ha! sure 204 SH FOOL