"But justly, as you have exceeded all promise _here_." Hanmer read '_here_ exceeded.' * * * * * "But yet indeed the taller, is his daughter." For 'taller' Pope read _shorter_, Malone _smaller_, which is the usual reading, as Rosalind was 'the taller.' I feel, however, almost certain that the poet wrote '_less_ taller,' and have so printed it. We have, "Against the envy of _less happier_ lands" (Rich. II. ii. 1), and no one would object to _more taller_. * * * * * SC. 3. "Not a word!--No, not one to throw at a dog." The 'No,' it will be seen, was transferred to the beginning of the next speech, where it was not wanted; while both sense and metre require it here. * * * * * "No, some of it for my child's father." Rowe properly read 'father's child.' Sense, taste, and delicacy, alike commend this simple and natural transposition. Some editors, however, think otherwise. * * * * * "Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste." For 'safest' Collier's folio reads _fastest_; we might also read, with Singer, _swiftest_, like "_swiftest_ expedition" (Two Gent. iii. 1); "in all _swift haste_" (Tr. and Cr. i. 1). But it is not necessary to alter the text; for _safe_ is, sure, certain, a sense which it retains in the Midland counties. "To take the safest occasion by the front" (Oth. iii. 2). * * * * * "Which teacheth thee, that thou and I am one." Such was the structure of the time. "My thoughts and I _am_ for this other element" (Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, i. 1). It was the same in French: "Ni la mort ni vous-même Ne me _ferez_ jamais prononcer que je l'aime." Racine, Bajazet, iv. 1. ACT II. SC. 1. "Here feel we not the penalty of Adam, The season's difference," etc. As the Duke proceeds to show that he _did_ feel this difference, the text cannot be right. Critics, therefore, for 'not' read _but_, as these words were frequently confounded by the printers. But then a question arises, was 'the season's difference' any part of 'the penalty of Adam.' In Scripture that penalty was "in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread;" and this was the very penalty that the Duke and his friends did not feel; for we have just been told of them (i. 1) that "they fleet away the time carelessly, as they did in the Golden World." Further, it does not appear that any writer anterior to Milton made the Ovidian change of seasons a part of Adam's penalty. The text may therefore be right, and a line, something like this, have been lost, "Here is no toil; we have only to endure" * * * * * "I would not change it." Upton, most properly, made this the conclusion of the Duke's speech. (See on W. T. v. 1) * * * * *