V.i.151 (388,4) restraining aid to Timon] I think it should be _refraining aid_, that is, with-holding aid that should have been given _to_ Timon. V.i.154 (389,5) Than their offence can weigh down by the dram] This which was in the former editions can scarcely be right, and yet I know not whether my reading will be thought to rectify it. I take the meaning to be, We will give thee a recompence that our offences cannot outweigh, _heaps of wealth down by the dram_, or delivered according to the exactest measure. A little disorder may perhaps have happened in transcribing, which may be reformed by reading, --_Ay, ev'n such heaps And sums of love and wealth, down by the dram, As shall to thee_-- V.i.165 (389,6) Allow'd with absolute power] _Allowed_ is _licensed_, _privileged_, _uncontrolled_. So of a buffoon, in _Love's Labour lost_, it is said, that he is _allowed_, that is, at liberty to say what he will, a privileged scoffer. V.i.139 (390,7) My long sickness/Of health and living now begins to mend] The disease of life begins to promise me a period. V.i.211 (391,8) in the sequence of degree] Methodically, from highest to lowest. V.iii.4 (393,2) Some beast read this; here does not live a man] [W: rear'd] Notwithstanding this remark, I believe the old reading to be the right. _The soldier had only seen the rude heap of earth._ He had evidently seen something that told him _Timon was dead_; and what could tell that but his tomb? The tomb he sees, and the inscription upon it, which not being able to read, and finding none to read it for him, he exclaims peevishly, _some beast read this_, for it must be read, and in this place it cannot be read by man. There is something elaborately unskilful in the contrivance of sending a soldier, who cannot read, to take the epitaph in wax, only that it may close the play by being read with more solemnity in the last scene. V.iv.7 (394, 3) traverst arms] Arms across. V.iv.8 (394,4) the time is flush] A bird is _flush_ when his feathers are grown, and he can leave the nest. _Flush_ is _mature_. V.iv.18 (395,7) So did we woo Transformed Timon to our city's love, By humble message, and by promis'd means] [T: promis'd mends] Dr. Warburton agrees with Mr. Theobald, but the old reading may well stand. V.iv.28 (395,8) Shame, that they wanted cunning, in excess/Hath broke their hearts] [Theobald had emended the punctuation] I have no wish to disturb the means of Theobald, yet think some emendation nay be offered that will make the construction less harsh, and the sentence more serious. I read, _Shape that they wanted, coming in excess, Hath broke their hearts._ _Shame which they_ had so long _wanted at last_ coming in _its utmost_ excess. V.iv.36 (396,8) not square] Not regular, not equitable. V.iv.35 (397,9) uncharged ports] That is, _unguarded gates_.