SC. 1. "What! have _I_ scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty?" _I_ is the insertion of the 2nd folio; and is perhaps not absolutely necessary, as we might put a (!) after 'beauty.' * * * * * "For though Love use Reason as his precision." For 'precision,' which gives but poor sense, we should adopt, as I have done, Johnson's conjecture, _physician_: "My reason the _physician_ to my love." Son. cxlvii. * * * * * "I'll exhibit a bill in Parliament for the putting down of men." Theobald's reading, '_fat_ men' has been generally and properly adopted. There is a similar omission of _fat_ in 1 Hen. IV. ii. 2. In the 4to she says, "Well, I shall trust _fat_ men the worse while I live for his sake." * * * * * "Will you go, An-heires?" This is mere nonsense. Boaden's conjecture, _Cavalieres_, adopted by Singer and myself, seems to be very good; it might easily, with a little effacement, have been mistaken by the printer. We might also, and still better I think, read _on heróes_, as this last word was thus pronounced at times by Spenser, Chapman, and others; and we have, "Noble heróes, my sword and yours are kin" (All's Well, ii. 1). The metre excludes _héroes_. Theobald, followed by Dyce, read _mynheers_, not a Shakespearian term; Steevens _on hearts_; Malone _and hear us_. The reading of the 4tos is 'Bully Hector!' * * * * * "On his wife's frailty." Theobald read _fealty_, Collier's folio has _fidelity_. I prefer the last; but I make no change. ACT III. SC. 2. "Give fire, she is my prize." Most certainly 'my' should be _thy_; the confusion is common. * * * * * SC. 3. "Cried Game? said I well?" Mr. Douce, Mr. Dyce, and myself, all independently corrected 'Cried I _aim_?' and Warburton had proposed _Cry aim_. The correction might therefore appear to be certain; and yet I am dubious of it. 'Cried game' is the reading of the 4tos, as well as of the folio; and as the first 4to and the folio were printed from independent MSS., it is not at all likely that two transcribers or printers should have fallen into the same error. 'Cried Game? said I well?' would suit the abrupt tone of the Host, and signify, Did I intimate sport? * * * * * "Thou hast the right arched beauty of the brow." The 4to reads _bent_ for 'beauty'; so the right word may be _bend_. I have given 'bent'. * * * * * "By the Lord, thou art a tyrant to say so." For 'tyrant' the 4tos read _traitor_. I have adopted this reading, though dubious of its being the best. * * * * * "What thou wert if Fortune thy foe were not, Nature _is_." So also Capell. * * * * * "I love thee, and none but thee."