"_To_ set foot under thy table. Tut, a toy." "Do get their children; but in this case of wooing A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning." Rime demands for 'cunning' the reading of Steevens, _doing_. _Wooing_ and _doing_ have already rimed in this scene. (See also Tr. and Cr. i. 2, _ad fin._) ACT III. SC. 1. "Spit in the hole, man, and tune _it_ again." * * * * * "To charge true rules for old inventions." All are agreed to read _change_ with 2nd folio; and as 'old' evidently makes no sense, Theobald read _odd_. With Rowe I prefer _new_. (See Introd. p. 66.) * * * * * SC. 2. "Make friends, invite, and proclaim the banns." The 2nd folio adds _yes_, Malone _them_, Dyce _guests_ after 'invite'; my own conjecture was _aye_. Would it not be better, however, to read as I have done, "Make friends _be_ invite_d_, and proclaim the banns"? There is an exactly similar omission of _be_ in All's Well, i. 3, where there can be no doubt. We might also read simply 'friends invite_d_'; but I doubt, after all, if it were not best to read "Make invite friends _too_ and proclaim the banns," which would agree better with the character of the speaker. * * * * * "Master, master! news, and such news as you never heard of.-- Is it new and old too? how may that be?" Is it quite evident that _old_ has been omitted in the first line. Rowe, who is followed, prefixed it to the first 'news.' I think it is better with the second, as in Collier's folio. * * * * * "Often burst, and now_'s_ repaired with knots." * * * * * "And 'The Humours of forty Fancies.'" Collier's folio reads "The Amours or forty Fancies." * * * * * "Were it _not_ better I should rush in thus...." Sense and metre demand the negative. There is, I think, a break in sense at the end of the line. * * * * * "But, sir, _to her_ love concerneth us to add Her father's liking." So I find Tyrwhitt also correctly completed the line. * * * * * "Signior Gremio, _how_ came you from the church." * * * * * "I'll tell you, sir Lucentio. When the priest." For 'sir' we should most certainly read _signior_. (See on Induction, sc. 1.) * * * * * "Having no other reason, etc." This speech is prose in the 1st folio; in the 2nd it is arranged as verse, but not well. In my Edition I have rearranged it, as I find Reed also had done. * * * * * "My household stuff, my field, my barn, _my granary_." S. Walker conjectured _my grange_; the Cambridge editors _my garner_. ACT IV. SC. 1. "Out, _out_ you rogue! you pluck my foot awry." * * * * *