Endnotes

1. Editors add “Why, aunt,” to correct the line’s meter. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

2. Editors add “it” to correct the line’s meter. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

3. Editors add “a” to correct the line’s meter. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

4. Editors add “so” to correct the line’s meter. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

5. Some modern editions combine scenes 4 and 5. See the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

6. The number of scenes in act 4 can differ from edition to edition. The Shakespeare Apocrypha’s edition, edited by C. F. Tucker Brooke contains as many as nine scenes. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

7. Editors add “streamers” to correct the line’s meter. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

8. Editors add “holy” to correct the line’s meter. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

9. Editors add “he be” to correct the line’s meter. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

10. Editors add “with” to correct the line’s meter. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩

11. Editors add another “on” to correct the line’s meter. —⁠S.E. Editor ↩