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Shared Error

Errors common to all the quartos and F will be a reliable guide to lines not checked against the promptbook—if such errors can be securely identified, and if they do not originate with Shakespeare himself. No such list can be definitive. Ours includes editorial emendations which are usually accepted, together with one convincing emendation (932) introduced by Kenneth Muir in his 1963 Signet edition,[18] and 2 proposed

readings (964, 2556) and a proposed alternative reading (1090) first put forward here.[19]                      

	TLN	Q1-F1	Emendation
1.1.163	168-9	obedience bids, | Obedience bids	Obedience bids
2.1.283	932	Iohn	Thomas
2.2.12	964	With . . . at	At . . . with
2.2.110	1065	Thus disorderly thrust	Thus thrust disorderly or Disorderly thus thrust
2.2.138	1090	Will the hatefull commons	Will the hatefull commoners or The hatefull commons will
3.4.11	1817	griefe	ioy
3.4.67	1879	you the	you then the
4.1.148	2068	Preuent it	Preuent
5.3.31	2528	my	the
5.3.57	2556	lest thy	lest

One odd variant does not quite fit into this category. Q1 has a self-evident dittography: F reads: F might have independent authority from the promptbook, though it surely gives the weaker reading. On the other hand, the simplest unauthoritative correction would have been to remove the first (nonsensical and extrametrical) 'not'. Perhaps an annotation was misunderstood by the compositor. In any case, this variant cannot confidently be put forward as a miscorrection resulting from failure to consult the promptbook.