I.ii.50 (13,3) [To three thousand dollars a year] [A quibble intended between _dollars_ and _dolours_. Hammer.] The same jest occured before in the _Tempest_. I.ii.83 (15,5) [what with the sweat] This nay allude to the _sweating sickness_, of which the memory was very fresh in the time of Shakespeare: but more probably to the method of cure then used for the diseases contracted in brothels. I.ii.124 (16,6) [Thus can the demi-god, Authority, Make us pay down, for our offence, by weight.-- The words of heaven;--on whom it will, it will; On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just] [Warburton had emended the punctuation of the second line] I suspect that a line is lost. I.ii.162 (18,8) [the fault, and glimpse, of newness] _Fault_ and _glimpse_ have so little relation to each other, that both can scarcely be right: we may read _flash_ for _fault_ or, perhaps we may read, _Whether it be the fault_ or _glimpse_-- That is, whether it be the seeming enormity of the action, or the glare of new authority. Yet the sane sense follows in the next lines, (see 1765, I, 275, 4) I.ii.188 (19,2) [There is a prone and speechless dialect] I can scarcely tell what signification to give to the word _prone_. Its primitive and translated senses are well known. The authour may, by a _prone_ dialect, mean a dialect which men are _prone_ to regard, or a dialect natural and unforced, as those actions seem to which we are _prone_. Either of these interpretations are sufficiently strained; but such distortion of words is not uncommon in our authour. For the sake of an easier sense, we may read, --_In her youth There is a_ pow'r, _and speechless dialect, Such as moves men._ Or thus, _There is a_ prompt _and speechless dialect._ I.ii.194 (20,3) [under grievous imposition] I once thought it should be _inquisition_, but the present reading is probably right. _The crime would be under grievous_ penalties imposed. I.iii.2 (20,4) [Believe not, that the dribbling dart of love Can pierce a compleat bosom] Think not that a breast _compleatly armed_ can be pierced by the dart of love that comes _fluttering without force_. I.iii.12 (21,5) [(A man of stricture and firm abstinence)] [W: strict ure] _Stricture_ may easily be used for _strictness_; _ure_ is indeed an old word, but, I think, always applied to things, never to persons. I.iii.43 (22,9) [To do it slander] The text stood, _So do in slander_.-- Sir Thomas Hammer has very well corrected it thus, To _do_ it _slander_.-- Yet perhaps less alteration might have produced the true reading, _And yet my nature never, in the fight,_ So _do_ing _slander_ed.-- And yet my nature never suffer slander by doing any open acts of severity. (see 1765, I,279,3) I.iii.51 (23,2) [Stands at a guard] Stands on terms of defiance. I.iv.30 (24,3) [make me not your story] Do not, by deceiving me, make me a subject for a tale. I.iv.41 (26,5)