'Masters' is the correction of Theobald for _mistress_ of the folio. _Master_ and _mistress_ are confounded also in v. 1, and in Mer. of Ven. iv. 1, 2 Hen. IV. ii. 4, 2 Hen. VI. i. 3, Tim. ii. 2. _Mistress_ was frequently written _misteris_, which may have been partly the cause of the confusion. * * * * * "That gives not half so great a blow to hear." For 'to hear,' which makes very poor sense, Warburton most happily read _to th' ear_. He was equally happy in Tim. i. 2. * * * * * "For his own good and yours." For 'yours' Thirlby most properly read _ours_. * * * * * "_Bion._ He that has the two fair daughters?" For _Bion._ I read _Gre._, in which I had been anticipated by Capell, Tyrwhitt, and Heath; so that it is certain. In my Edition will be found the correct punctuation of the whole passage. * * * * * "And were his daughter fairer than she is." There is either an aposiopesis or a line lost after this; I think the latter. * * * * * "What! this gentleman will out-talk us all." There is apparently something wrong here. As 'what!' is almost invariably followed by an interrogative, I would read 'will this gentleman'; we might also insert an adj. before 'gentleman,' or read _all of us_ for 'us all.' The speech, however, as it is a single line, may be as the poet wrote it; I have therefore let it stand in my Edition. * * * * * "No, sir, but hear I do that he hath two." To avoid the jingle we might read 'I do hear.' * * * * * "If it be so, sir, that you are the man." I have no doubt that for 'that' we should read _then_. (See Introd. p. 68.) * * * * * "And if you break the ice, and do this seek." For 'seek' I read _deed_; Rowe read _feat_. ACT II. SC. 1. "As the other in music and _in_ mathematics." * * * * * "But, gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger." Perhaps for 'sir' we should read _signior_, and for 'walk' _look_. * * * * * "Sirrah! Lead these gentlemen to my daughters, and tell them both." So we should arrange the passage. * * * * * "No such jade as you, if me you mean." We might read 'Not such _a_ jade.' Mr. Dyce reads, after Collier's folio, 'as _bear_ you,' which is better, and which I follow. * * * * * "'_Tis_ in his tail.--'_Tis_ in his tongue.--Whose tongue?" * * * * * "The gain I seek is quiet me the match." For 'me' Rowe properly read _in_. * * * * * "Myself am struck in years I must confess." There must be a line at least lost after this. * * * * *