Such is the reading of the Folio. Mr. White reads, "I live distained, thou one dishonored." But we cannot help thinking that the true reading should be, "I live distained, though undishonored," which is a less forced construction, and coincides with the rest of the passage,--"I am contaminate through thee, though in myself immaculate." In "As You Like it," (Act ii. Sc. 3,) Mr. White (with the Folio and some recent editors) calls the Duke's wrestler, "the _bonny_ priser of the Duke." The common reading is "bony," which seems to us better, though we believe _brawny_ to be the word intended. We likewise question Mr. White's explanation of the word _priser_, which, he says, "is prize-fighter, one who wins prizes." One who "fights for prizes" would have been better; but we suspect that the word is more nearly akin with the French _prise_ (in the sense of _venir aux prises_) than with _prix_. We should prefer also "Aristotle's ethicks" (_Taming of the Shrew_, Act i. Sc. 1) to the ordinary "Aristotle's checks," which is retained by Mr. White. In "Much Ado about Nothing," (Act ii. Sc. 1,) we have no doubt that Mr. Collier's corrector is right in reading "_sink_ apace," though Mr. White states authoritatively that Shakspeare would not have so written. It is only fair to Mr. White, however, to say that he is generally open-minded toward readings suggested by others, and that he accepts nearly all those of Mr. Collier's Corrected Folio on which honest lovers of Shakspeare would be likely to agree. In comparing his notes with the text, our eye was caught by a verse in which there seems so manifest a corruption that we shall venture to throw down the discord-apple of a conjectural emendation. In the "Merchant of Venice," (Act iii. Sc. 2,) where Bassanio is making his choice among the caskets, after a long speech about "outward shows" and "ornament," he is made to say that ornament is, "in a word, The seeming truth which cunning _times_ put on To entrap the wisest." We find it hard to believe that _times_ is the right word here, and strongly suspect that it has stolen the place of _tires_. The whole previous tenor of the speech, and especially of the images immediately preceding that in question, appears to demand such a word. We have said, that we considered the style and matter of Mr. White's notes excellent. Indeed, to the purely illustrative notes we should hardly make an exception. There are two or three which we think in questionable taste, and one where the temptation to say a sharp thing has led the editor to vulgarize the admirable Benedick, and to misinterpret the text in a way so unusual for him that it is worth a comment. When Benedick's friends are discussing the symptoms which show him to be in love, Claudio asks, "When was he wont to wash his face?" Mr. White annotates thus:--