The original word is _unhatch'd_, and if any alteration be admitted it should be _an hatch'd_, for the first reason assigned in Mr. Malone's ingenious note. Sir Toby says that his brother knight was no hero dubbed in the field of battle, but a carpet knight made at home in time of peace with a sword of ceremony richly _gilt or engraved_. In _Don Quixote_, the damsel whom Sancho finds wandering in the streets of Barataria disguised as a man, is furnished with "a very faire _hatched_ dagger," chap. 49 of Shelton's translation. In _The tragical history of Jetzer_, 1683, 18mo, mention is made of "a sword richly _hatcht_ with silver." Thus much in support of the above slight alteration of the old reading. The second conjecture of Mr. Malone, that _unhatcht_ might have been used in the sense of _unhack'd_, deserves much attention; but there was no necessity for introducing the latter word into the text. To _hatch_ a sword has been thought to signify to _engrave_ it; but it appears from Holme's _Academy of armory_, B. iii. p. 91, that "_hatching_, is _to silver or gild_ the hilt and pomell of a sword or hanger." With respect to _carpet_ knights, they were sometimes called knights of the _green cloth_. For this information we are also indebted to Holme, who, in his above cited work, B. iii. p. 57, informs us that "all such as have studied law, physic, or any other arts and sciences whereby they have become famous and serviceable to the court, city, or state, and thereby have merited honour, worship, or dignity, from the sovereign and fountain of honour; if it be the King's pleasure to knight any such persons, seeing they are not knighted as soldiers, they are not therefore to use the horseman's title or spurs; they are only termed simply _miles et milites, knights of the carpet or knights of the green cloth_, to distinguish them from knights that are dubbed as soldiers in the field; though in these our days they are created or dubbed with the like ceremony as the others are, by the stroak of a naked sword upon their shoulder, with the words, _Rise up Sir T. A. knight_." ACT IV. SCENE 1. Page 136. CLO. I am afraid this great _lubber the world_ will prove a cockney. A typographical corruption seems to have crept into this place from similitude of sound; but a very slight alteration will restore the sense. The clown is speaking of _vent_ as an affected word; and we should therefore read "this great _lubberly word_ will prove a cockney," i. e. will turn out to be cockney language. SCENE 2. Page 140. CLO. For as _the old hermit of Prague_---- Not the celebrated heresiarch Jerome of Prague, but another of that name born likewise at Prague, and called _the hermit of Camaldoli_ in Tuscany. SCENE 2. Page 141. CLO. Say'st thou that _house_ is dark?