II.i.232 (43,1) [this lord of weak remembrance] This lord, who, being now in his dotage, has outlived his faculty of remembering; and who, once laid in the ground, shall be as little remembered himself, as he can now remember other things. II.i.235 (43,2) [For he's a spirit of persuasion, only Professes to persuade the king his son's alive] Of this entangled sentence I can draw no sense from the present reading, and therefore imagine that the author gave it thus: _For_ he, _a spirit of persuasion, only Professes to persuade_. Of which the meaning may be either, that _he alone, who is a spirit of persuasion, professes to persuade the king_; or that, _He only professes to persuade_, that is, _without being so persuaded himself, he makes a show of persuading the king_. II.i.242 (44,3) [Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond] That this is the utmost extent of the prospect of ambition, the point where the eye can pass no further, and where objects lose their distinctness, so that what is there discovered, is faint, obscure, and doubtful. (rev. 1778, I,50,4) II.i.251 (44,5) [though some cast again; And, by that destiny, to perform an act, Whereof what's past is prologue; what to come, In yours, and my discharge.] These lines stand in the old edition thus: --_though some cast again; And, by that destiny, to perform an act, Whereof what's past, is prologue; what to come, In your and my discharge_. The reading in the later editions is without authority. The old text may very well stand, except that in the last line _in_ should be _is_. and perhaps we might better say--_and that by destiny_. It being a common plea of wickedness to call temptation destiny. II.i.259 (45,6) [Keep in Tunis] There is in this passage a propriety lost, which a slight alteration will restore: --Sleep _in Tunis, And let Sebastian wake_! II.i.278 (45,7) [Twenty consciences, That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candy'd be they, Or melt e'er they molest] I had rather read, Would _melt e'er they molest_. i.e. _Twenty consciences, such as stand between me and my hopes, though they were congealed, would melt before they could molest one_, or prevent the execution of my purposes. (see 1765, I,40,7) II.i.286 (46,8) [This ancient morsel] For _morsel_ Dr. Warburton reads _ancient moral_, very elegantly and judiciously, yet I know not whether the author might not write _morsel_, as we say a _piece of a man_. II.i.288 (46,9) [take suggestion] i.e. Receive any hint of villainy, (1773) II.i.297 (46,1) [_Ari._ My master through his art foresees the danger, That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth (For else his project dies) to keep them living]