SC. 3. "If a Christian do not play the knave and get thee." The 2nd folio properly read _did_. (See on Jul. Cæs. ii. 2.) This change of tense was not unfrequent. We often meet _see_ for _saw_. * * * * * SC. 5. "Well thou shalt see; thy eyes shall be thy judge." It might be better to read '_the_ judge.' Even at the present day printers confound these words. * * * * * "Will be worth a Jewès eye," I prefer this, the reading of the old copies, to 'Jewess,' Pope's reading, which is usually followed. * * * * * SC. 6. "How like a younker or a prodigal." Rowe's correction for 'younger.' * * * * * SC. 7. "Go draw aside the curtains." So also at end of scene; but as in sc. ix. it is 'curtain,' I ascribe the _s_ to the printer. * * * * * "But more than these in love I do deserve _her_." See also Capell. * * * * * "Gilded timber do worms infold." Pope read _wood may_ for 'timber do' of the 4tos and folio; Johnson, who is always followed, read _tombs_; I read _woods_. The meaning is that gilded wooden work was often worm-eaten. ACT III. SC. 1. "And hindered me _of_ half a million." So also Warburton. * * * * * "Where? in Genoa?" 'Where' is Rowe's correction; the original editions read _Here_, which may be right. * * * * * SC. 2. "I speak too long, but 'tis to piece the time, To eke it, and to draw it out." 'Piece' is Rowe's correction for _peize_, and is, I think, right. * * * * * "There is no vice so simple but assumes." The originals all have _voice_; 'vice' is a correction, and a true one, of the 2nd folio. * * * * * "Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea, the beautious scarf Veiling an Indian beauty." Unless we take it ironically--which is unworthy of the poet--'beauty' here is nonsense. It plainly owes its origin to the preceding 'beautious.' Hanmer read _dowdy_; Sidney Walker _gipsy_--both bad. I read, with the utmost confidence, _feature_ as the only word suited to the place. (See Index _s. v._) Mr. Spedding, I find, conjectured _visage_ or _feature_, apparently taking them to be synonymous. * * * * * "Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge." For 'pale' Farmer read _stale_, perhaps needlessly. * * * * * "Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence."