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Common QF mislineation

II.iv.127-132

• Q3 Dol.
  Say that my father render faire reply,
  It is against my will:
  For I desire nothing so much,
  As oddes with England.
  And for that cause, according to his youth,
  I did present him with those Paris balles.
  
  Exe.
  Hee'l make your Paris Louer shake for it,
  
  
• F Dolph.
  Say: if my Father render faire returne,
  It is against my will: for I desire
  Nothing but Oddes with England.
  To that end,/as matching to his Youth and Vanitie,
  I did present him with the Paris-Balls.
  
  Exe.
  Hee'le make your Paris Louer shake for it,
  
  

The coincidence of Q and F in the erroneous line-ending "England" betrays the F dependence on its copy. Further bibliographical traces or links may appear in the common colon after "will", and the common spelling of Louvre.

IV.i.295-8 (see also Plate VI below)

• Q3 Which euery day their withered hands hold vp To heauen, to pardon blood, And I haue built two Chanceries, more will I do:

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• F Who twice a day their wither'd hands hold vp Toward Heauen, to pardon blood: And I haue built/two Chauntries, Where the sad and solemne Priests/sing still For Richards Soule. More will I doe:

Here F ends two lines wrongly, one (296) directly from Q, the other by beginning a line with the F insertion ("Where . . . Soule."), which is itself misdivided.

IV.viii.38-41

• Q3 King.
  Let me see thy gloue.
  Looke you, this is the fellow of it.
  It was I indeede you promised to strike.
  And thou hast giuen me most bitter words.
  
  
• F King.
  Giue me thy Gloue Souldier;
  Looke, heere is the fellow of it:
  'Twas I indeed thou promised'st to strike,
  And thou hast giuen me most bitter termes.
  
  

Here the QF agreement in dividing the first line into two, at the same point, is suggestive, whether the line is prose (as usually printed), or verse, as Shakespeare probably intended. It is perhaps worth adding that F agrees specifically with Q3, since Q1 and Q2 divide after "Looke you".