And again in _Timon_ and _Othello_. Yet Milton writes _glutted offal_ for _swallowed_, and therefore perhaps the present text may stand. I.i.65 (7,1) [Farewell, brother!] All these lines have been hitherto given to Gonzalo, who has no brother in the ship. It is probable that the lines succeeding the _confused noise within_ should be considered as spoken by no determinate characters, but should be printed thus. 1 _Sailor_. Mercy on us! We split, we split! 2 _Sailor_. Farewell, my, &c. 3 _Sailor_. Brother, farewell, &c. (see 1765, I,6,6) I.ii.15 (8,3) [_Mira_. O, woe the day! _Pro_. No harm, I have done nothing but in care of thee] I know not whether Shakespeare did not make Miranda speak thus: _O, woe the day! no harm?_ To which Prospero properly answers: _I have done nothing but in care of thee_. Miranda, when he speaks the words, _O, woe the day_! supposes, not that the crew had escaped, but that her father thought differently from her, and counted their destruction _no harm_. I.ii.27 (8,4) [virtue of compassion] Virtue; the most efficacious part, the energetic quality; in a like sense we say, _The virtue of a plant is in the extract_. I.ii.29 (8,5) [I have with such provision in mine art So safely order'd, that there is no soul-- No, not so much perdition as an hair, Betid to any creature in the vessel] Thus the old editions read, but this is apparently defective. Mr. Rowe, and after him Dr. Warburton, read _that there is no soul lost_, without any notice of the variation. Mr. Theobald substitutes _no foil_, and Mr. Pope follows him. To come so near the right, and yet to miss it, is unlucky: the author probably wrote _no soil_, no stain, no spot: for so Ariel tells, _Not a hair perish'd; On their sustaining garments not a blemish, But fresher than before._ And Gonzalo, _The rarity of it is, that our garments being drench'd in the sea, keep notwithstanding their freshness and glosses_. Of this emendation I find that the author of notes on _The Tempest_ had a glimpse, but could not keep it. I.ii.58 (10,7) [and thy father Was duke of Milan, thou his only heir] Perhaps--_and_ thou _his only heir_. I.ii.83 (11,1) [having both the key Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state To what tune pleas'd his ear] _Key_ in this place seems to signify the key of a musical instrument, by which he set _Hearts to tune_. I.ii.93 (11,2) [and my trust,_Like a good parent, did beget of him_ A falshood] Alluding to the observation, that a father above the common rate of men has commonly a son below it. _Heroum filii noxae_.