Here is what seems to be a convincing proof of the effacement of the ends of lines in the MS. In the second line the 2nd folio inserted _sir_ in the middle, and in the third it read '_most_ ready and _most_ willing.' Lower down the ends of two lines more have been also effaced. * * * * * "The match is made and all is done; Your son shall have my daughter, with consent.-- I thank you, sir, where then do you know best." 'Your son' belongs to first line; and as we have had (iii. 2) "And marry sweet Bianca with consent," we might complete the metre by reading 'with _my full_ consent'; but it is more probable, as this page of the MS. appears to have been injured, that the loss was at the end. I read of _me, Baptista_, as (v. 1) we have "mine only son and heir to the lands of _me, signior Vincentio_." In the next line 'know' is most probably a mere printer's error. I have in my Edition, given _hold_, the reading of Collier's folio; but I think now that the right word is _trow_, which occurs more than once in Shakespeare in the sense of think, and which I find was also the conjecture of Hanmer. * * * * * "I cannot tell; except _while_ they are busied about." The 1st folio has _expect_, which was rightly corrected in the 2nd. _While_ was properly supplied by Capell. * * * * * "The priest be ready [to come] against you come with your appendix." Both sense and metre counsel the ejection of 'to come' caused by the following 'you come.' * * * * * "She will be pleased, then wherefore should I doubt _her_?" The rime evidently requires this addition, made also by Pope. * * * * * SC. 5. "And so it shall be still for Katherine." 'Still' is Ritson's correction of _so_ in the folio. * * * * * "But soft _you_! company is coming here." ACT V. SC. 1. "And then come back to my master." This is the reading of Capell, which I have followed; _master's_, that of Theobald, is perhaps better. The folio has _mistress_: see on i. 2. * * * * * "I pray you tell signior Lucentio that his father is come from Padua." Tyrwhitt, who has been followed by all succeeding editors, reads _Pisa_, which is no doubt right; but the error was the poet's. * * * * * "Right son _un_to the right Vincentio." * * * * * "Better once than never; for never _is_ too late." * * * * * SC. 2. "And time it is when raging war is done, To smile at scapes and perils overblown." The folio has _come_; but both sense and rime demand 'done,' Rowe's correction. We might also, as Mr. Collier observes, read _gone_; and this is perhaps the best. "_And_ how likes Gremio these quick-witted folks?"