"And virtuous; 'tis so, I cannot reprove it." It would perhaps be better to read '_dis_prove it.' * * * * * "And choke a daw withal." Collier's folio reads '_not_ choke'; but it is dubious. ACT III. SC. 1. "Good Margaret, run thee _in_ to the parlour." Pope read '_in_to.' * * * * * "Whisper her ear and tell her I and Ursula." There has probably been an omission of _in_ before 'her.' * * * * * "No, not to be so odd and from all fashions." The proper word is _nor_, as Capell also saw. * * * * * SC. 2. "Well, every one can master a grief, but he that has it." Both folio and 4to read 'can_not_' for 'can,' Pope's correction. * * * * * "As a German from the waist downward all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip upward no doublet." This is only in 4to, 1600. We should probably read, as Mason also did, '_all_ doublet.' * * * * * "He is no fool for fancy as you would have it to appear he is." For 'fool' we should perhaps read _food_. * * * * * "She shall be buried with her face upwards." That is, like everybody else. Theobald read _heels_ for face, quoting, "Whilst I have meat and drink love cannot starve me; For if I die of the first fit I am unhappy, And worthy _to be buried with my heels upward_;" (Fletcher, Wild-goose Chase, i. 3) while Mason proposed _feet_. But Singer says, referring to Winter's Tale, iv. 3, that the meaning is, she shall be buried _in her lover's arms_; and I think there _is_ a waggish allusion to nuptial joys. ACT IV. SC. 1. "Out on thee, seeming! I will write against it, You seem to me as Dian in her orb." For 'thee' we should, I think, read _thy_ or _this_, as they were pronounced alike, and for 'seem' _seem'd_, for the same reason.' (See Introd. p. 52.) Pope also read _thy_, and Hanmer _seem'd_. * * * * * "But if all aim but this be levell'd false." I would read _in_; for 'but,' suggested by 'But,' makes nonsense. I have, however, made no change in my Edition. ACT V. SC. 1. "And bid him speak of patience _to me_." * * * * * "And sorrow wag, cry Hem! when he should groan." For 'wag,' which gives no sense, I would read _sway_, which gives most excellent sense. "For Affection, Mistress of passion, _sways_ it." Mer. of Ven. iv. 1. "You _sway_ the motion of Demetrius' heart." M. N. D. i. 1. "The will of man is by his reason _sway'd_." Ib. ii. 2.