"Our own stars all our fortunes, Which, as we _sway_ 'em, to abuse or bless us." Fletch. Chances, ii. 3. It seems evident that the initial _s_ of _sway_ was effaced, a thing not unusual. As to the change of _y_ to _g_, I lately read a work on South America, in which the well-known name _Almagro_ was invariably printed _Almayro_. 'Cry Hem!' may mean, use the language of rakish youths; "Our watch-word was, Hem boys!" (2 Hen. IV. iii. 2). * * * * * "Some of us would lie low.--Who _is it_ wrongs him?" * * * * * "Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience." The meaning of 'wake' is not clear; perhaps we should read _task_. Hanmer read _rack_; Talbot _waste_. * * * * * "I cannot bid you bid my daughter live." A printer's error, probably caused in the usual way. We might better read _make_, though 'bid' makes sense. 'Can I _make men live_ whe'r they will or no?' (2 Hen. VI. iii. 3.) * * * * * "I do embrace your offer, and dispose From henceforth of poor Claudio." It would seem that something had been lost at the end, the speech terminates so abruptly. We might supply _at your pleasure_. * * * * * "Have you been deceived; _for_ they swore you did." Mr. Dyce would read '_for_ they _did swear_'; but the two _did_s rather offend the ear. * * * * * "Brave punishments for him. _Come_, strike up, piper." MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. ACT I. SC. 1. "The Council shall hear _of_ it; it is a riot." The metre requires _of_, which makes the expression more idiomatic. Sir Hugh naturally omits it. * * * * * "And I thank you always with my heart la!" The folio reads '_love_ you'; the correction is Farmer's. So also in Shallow's next speech. * * * * * SC. 3. "The good humour is to steal at a minute's rest." As "_minim's_ rest" occurs in Rom. and Jul. ii. 1, Langton and Collier's folio would so read here; but it may be, and probably is, a mere blunder of Nym's. * * * * * "He hath studied her well, and translated her well." The folio reads _will_; in both places the 4tos have 'well' in the first, and omit it in the last. * * * * * "Hold, sirrah, bear you these _two_ letters tightly." * * * * * "For the revolt of mine is dangerous." For 'the' we must, with Pope, read _this_. We have, "For this revolt of thine" (Hen. V. ii. 1). Theobald, whom some critics follow, read _mien_ for 'mine,' which I utterly reject. (See on Two Gent. ii. 4.) I do not think 'revolt' occurs anywhere in the sense of mere change. ACT II.