II.iii.105 (54,4) [There's one grape yet,--I am sure, they father drunk wine.--But if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth of fourteen. I have known thee already] This speech the three last editors have perplexed themselves by dividing between Lafeu and Parolles, without any authority of copies, or any improvement of sense. I have restored the old reading, and should have thought no explanation necessary, but that Mr. Theobald apparently misunderstood it. Old Lafeu having, upon the supposition that the lady was refused, reproached the young lords as _boys of ice_, throwing his eyes on Bertram who remained, cries out, "_There is one yet into whom his father put good blood,----but I have known thee long enough to know thee for an ass_." II.iii.135 (55,6) [good alone Is good, without a name, vileness is so] [W: good; and with a name,] The present reading is certainly wrong, and, to confess the truth, I do not think Dr. Warburton's emendation right; yet I have nothing that I can propose with much confidence. Of all the conjectures that I can make, that which least displeases me is this: --_good alone. Is good without a name_; Helen _is so_; The rest follows easily by this change. II.iii.138 (56,7) [--She is young, wise, fair; In these, to nature she's immediate heir; And these breed honour] Here is a long note [W's] which I wish had been shorter. _Good_ is better than _young_, as it refers to _honour_. But she is more the _immediate heir_ of _nature_ with respect to _youth_ than _goodness_. To be _immediate heir_ is to inherit without any intervening transmitter: thus she inherits beauty _immediately_ from _nature_, but honour is transmitted by ancestors; youth is received _immediately_ from _nature_. but _goodness_ may be conceived in part the gift of parents, or the effect of education. The alteration therefore loses on one side what it gains on the other. II.iii.170 (58,9) [Into the staggers] One species of the _staggers_, or the _horses apoplexy_, is a raging impatience which makes the animal dash himself with destructive violence against posts or walls. To this the allusion, I suppose, is made. II.iii.185 (59,1) [whose ceremony Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief, And be perform'd to-night] This, if it be at all intelligible, is at least obscure and inaccurate. Perhaps it was written thus, --what _ceremony Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief_ Shall _be perform'd to-night; the solemn feast_ _Shall more attend_-- The _brief_ is the _contract of espousal_, or the _licence_ of the church. The King means, What _ceremony_ is necessary to make this _contract a marriage_, shall be immediately _performed_; the rest may be delayed. II.iii.211 (60,2) [I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow] While I sat twice with thee at table.