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accepted, for example, in standard modern texts like
The Cambridge Shakespeare and The Arden Shakespeare.
Here are some of the more important of these re-
storations, important inasmuch as the variants involve
difference in meaning or in poetic value:
'co-mart' (Q2) for 'covenant' (Fi) at 1. r. 93; 'new-
hatched unfledged courage' (Q2) for 'new-hatched un-
fledged comrade' (Fi) at 1. 3. 6$) 'a working mute and
dumb' (Q2) for 'a winking mute and dumb' (Fi) at
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2.2.137; 'repelled' (Q 2) for 'repulsed' (F i)at2.2.146; 'But
who, ah woe!' (Q 2) for 'But who, O who' (F1) at 2.2.5065
'stallion' (Q2) for 'scullion' (Fi) at 2. 2. 5915 'drift of
I
conference' (Q2) for 'drift of circumstance' (Fi) at .1. J
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'co-medled' (Q2) for 'co-mingled' (Fi) at 3. 2. 67; 'This
bad begins' (Q2) for 'Thus bad begins' (Fr) at 3. 4. 179}
'like an apple' (Q2) for 'like an ape' (Fi) at 4. 2. 175
"pear' (Q2) for 'pierce' (Fi) at 4. 5. 151; 'devise' (Q2)
for 'advise' (Fi) at4. 7. 525 'preferred' (Q2) for 'prepared'
(Fi) at 4. 7. 1585 'Therewith...make' (Q2) for 'There
with...come' (Fi) at 4. 7. 167; 'lauds' (Q2) for 'tunes'
(Fi) at4. 7.176; 'sagerequiem' (Fi) for 'arequiem' (Q2)
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at .1. 2315 'out of an habit' (Q2)for 'outward habit' (Fi)
at 5. 2. 191; and 'O God, Horatio' (Q2) for 'Oh good
Horatio' (Fi) at 5. 2. 342.
Passing from the choice of variants to the question of
emendation, bibliographical and literary arguments have
been advanced in support of the following solutions for
ten of the capital cruxes in the text:
'sullied flesh' (Q2 sallied flesh, i solid flesh) at 1.2.129}
F
'sanity' (Qz safty, Fi sanctity) at 1. 3. 21; 'often most
select' (Q2, Fi, Q1 of a most select) at 1. 3. 74; 'the dram
of evil' (Q2 the dram of eale) and 'often dout' (Q2 of a
doubt) at 1.4. 36-7; 'peacock' (Q2, i paiock) at 3.2. 2845
F
'brawls' (Q2 browes, Fi Lunacies) at 3. 3. 7; 'bait
and salary' (Q2 base and silly, Fi hyre and Sallery) at
3. 3. 79; 'of habits evil' (Q2 of habits deuill) at 3.4.162}
'parts' (Q 2 part) at 5.2.115 and ' profound and winnowed'
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Q 2 prints 'repell'd.*