I.ii.285 (22,4) upon my wit to defend my wiles] So read both the copies) yet perhaps the author wrote, Upon my wit to defend my will. The terms _wit_ and _will_ were, in the language of that time, put often in opposition. I.ii.300 (23,5) At your own house; there he unarms him] [These necessary words added from the quarto edition. POPE.] The words added are only, _there he unarms him_. I.ii.313 (23,6) joy's soul lies in the doing] So read both the old editions, for which the later editions have poorly given, --the _soul's joy_ lies in doing. I.ii.316 (23,7) That she] Means, that woman. I.iii.31 (25,2) With due observance of thy godlike seat] [T: godlike seat] This emendation [for goodly seat] Theobald might have found in the quarto, which has, --the _godlike_ seat. I.iii.32 (25,3) Nestor shall apply/Thy latest words] Nestor _applies_ the words to another instance. I.iii.54 (26,7) Returns to chiding fortune] For _returns_, Hanmer reads _replies_, unnecessarily, the sense being the same. The folio and quarto have _retires_, corruptly. I.iii.62 (27,8) both your speeches; which are such, As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece Should hold up high in brass; and such again, As venerable Nestor, hatch'd in silver, Should with a bond of air (strong as the axle-tree On which heaven rides) knit all the Greekish ears To his experienc'd tongue] Ulysses begins his oration with praising those who had spoken before him, and marks the characteristick excellencies of their different eloquence, strength, and sweetness, which he expresses by the different metals on which he recommends them to be engraven for the instruction of posterity. The speech of Agamemnon is such that it ought to be engraven in brass, and the tablet held up by him on the one side, and Greece on the other, to shew the union of their opinion. And Nestor ought to be exhibited in silver, uniting all his audience in one mind by his soft and gentle elocution. Brass is the common emblem of strength, and silver of gentleness. We call a soft voice a _silver_ voice, and a persuasive tongue a _silver_ tongue.--I once read for _hand_, the _band_ of Greece, but I think the text right.--To _hatch_ is a term of art for a particular method of _engraving_. _Hatcher_, to cut, Fr. I.iii.78 (28,1) The specialty of rule] The particular rights of supreme authority. I.iii.81 (29,2) When that the general is not like the hive] The meaning is, _When the general is not_ to the army _like the hive_ to the bees, the repository of the stock of every individual, that to which each particular resorts with whatever be has collected for the good of the whole, _what honey is expected_? what hope of advantage? The sense is clear, the expression is confused. I.iii.101 (30,5) Oh, when degree is shak'd] I would read, --So when degree is shak'd. (see 1765, VII, 431, 5) I.iii.103 (30,6) The enterprize] Perhaps we should read, _Then_ enterprize is sick!--