Music Reference ID Work Character RSC Line Number RSC Text Norton Oxford Line Number Norton Oxford Text F1 Character F1 Text First Edition Character First Edition Text Third Edition Text Through Line Number Q1 Q2 Q3 Arden Line Number Arden Text Oxford Line Number Oxford Text Cambridge Line Number Cambridge Text Comments
1021 Merry Wives of Windsor Evans 3.1.25 [^Singing^] ‘To shallow rivers to whose falls’ Euan. To shallow Riuers, to whose fals: 1181 - 3.1.28 [Sings.]… 3.1.28 (Sings)… 3.1.24
1022 Merry Wives of Windsor Ford 3.2.30 A man may | hear this shower ^sing in the wind^. Ford. A man may heare this showre sing | in the winde; 1299 - 3.2.33 3.2.32 3.2.27
1023 Merry Wives of Windsor Falstaff 3.3.54 I see what thou wert if ^fortune, thy foe^, were, with | nature, thy friend. Fal. I see what thou wert if Fortune thy | foe, were not Nature thy friend: 1407 - 3.3.58 …were not, Nature thy friend. 3.3.60 …Fortune thy foe were Nature thy friend… 3.3.49 …if Fortune (thy foe) were - not Nature - thy friend.
1024 Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Page 4.4.49 With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads, | And ^rattles^ in their hands. Mist. Pa. With rounds of waxen Tapers on their heads, | And rattles in their hands; 2173 - 4.4.49 4.4.48 4.4.48
1025 Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Page 4.4.52 Let them from forth a saw-pit rush at once, | With some diffused ^song^. Mist. Pa. Let them from forth a saw-pit rush at once | With some diffused song: 2176 - 4.4.52 4.4.51 4.4.51
1026 Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Page 4.4.55 Then let them all encircle him about, | And fairy-like, to pinch the unclean knight, | And ask him why, that hour of fairy ^revel^, | In their so sacred paths, he dares to tread | In shape profane. Mist. Pa. Then let them all encircle him about, | And Fairy-like to pinch the vncleane Knight; | And aske him why that houre of Fairy Reuell, | In their so sacred pathes, he dares to tread | In shape prophane. 2179 - 4.4.55 4.4.54 4.4.54
1027 Merry Wives of Windsor Falstaff 5.5.16 Let the sky rain potatoes, | let it ^thunder to the tune of ‘Greensleeves’^, hail kissing-comfits Fal. Let the skie | raine Potatoes: let it thunder, to the tune of Greenesleeues,| haile-kissing Comfits, and snow Eringoes: 2499 - 5.5.18 5.5.18 5.5.14
1028 Merry Wives of Windsor SD 5.5.26 A noise [within] SD - There is a noise of hornes, the two women run away. 5.5.30 Noise of horns within 5.5.28 [A noise of rattles within' 5.5.23 [A noise of horns within] Shortly before this, Q (G2) has Fal. Well I stand here | For Horne the hunter, waiting my Does coming. Not in F1.
1029 Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Quickly 5.5.62 And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you ^sing^, | Like to the Garter’s compass, in a ring. Qu. And Nightly-meadow-Fairies, looke you sing | Like to the Garters-Compasse, in a ring, 2547 - 5.5.65 5.5.64 5.5.53
1030 Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Quickly 5.5.72 Our ^dance^ of custom, round about the oak Qu. Our Dance of Custome, round about the Oke 2557 5.5.76 5.5.75 5.5.68