The metre requires '_should_ be.' * * * * * SC. 3. "There is no measure in the occasion that heeds _it_." ACT II. SC. 1. _Bene._ "Well I would you did like me." It should be _Balt._ here and in the next two speeches. * * * * * "Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!" Collier's folio reads needlessly '_then_, Hero.' * * * * * "It is the base, though bitter disposition of Beatrice." For 'though,' which can hardly be right, the usual reading is _the_, the correction of Johnson, which is very good; the words were easily confounded, especially when _though_ was written _tho'_. * * * * * "That I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me." We should expect _him_; but 'me' may have been the poet's word. For the first 'at' we might perhaps read _as_. * * * * * "All that Adam had left him before he transgressed." There must certainly be an error either in 'left' or in 'before.' For the latter we might read _after_; for the former perhaps _lent_ or _about_. I think the true reading is _lent_, in which I had been anticipated by Collier's folio. _Lend_ was constantly used in the sense of give. "I can _lend_ you letters to divers officers," etc. (Jonson, Every Man out, etc. iii. 1.) It is not quite out of use yet. * * * * * "County Claudio, when mean you go to church?" For 'County,' which occurs nowhere else in the play, I read _Count_, which also suits the metre. * * * * * SC. 2. "Hear me call Margaret Hero; hear Margaret term me Claudio." The poet no doubt wrote 'Claudio' here; but from what precedes it certainly should have been _Borachio_. These slips were not at all unusual with him. * * * * * SC. 3. "We'll fit the hid fox with a pennyworth." The originals read '_kid_-fox'; but his hiding had just been mentioned, and the name of the game probably alluded to was Hide Fox. Warburton made the correction. * * * * * "Since many a lover doth commence his suit _thus_." Something seems evidently wanting for the sense. * * * * * "Notes, notes, forsooth, and noting!" Theobald's correction; the old copies have _nothing_. * * * * * "O, ay. Stalk on; stalk on; the fowl sits." Perhaps for the sake of metre _yonder_ should be added. * * * * * "Beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses, O sweet Benedick!" I agree with Collier's folio and Singer in reading _cries_ for 'curses,' which was suggested by 'prays.' * * * * * "My lord, will you walk _in_? dinner is ready." * * * * *