The metre proves this to be the right text. * * * * * "So, now uncape." I think Hanmer was right in reading _uncouple_; for 'uncape,' as a term of the chase, is unknown. The final letters of _uncouple_ had probably been effaced in the MS. * * * * * SC. 4. "Farewell, gentle Mistress _Page_. Färewell, Nan." Both sense and metre gain, I think, by this addition. Policy, if nothing else, should make Fenton return the farewell of Mrs. Page. Capell read '_my_ gentle.' * * * * * "A fool and a physician." We should certainly read with Hanmer _or_ for 'and.' * * * * * SC. 5. "As they'd have drowned a bitch's blind puppies." The original copies read 'a blind bitch's'; Hanmer made the obvious transposition. ACT IV. SC. 2. "Your husband is in his old _lunes_ again." The folio has _lines_. Theobald made the correction. See W. T. ii. 2. * * * * * "Good gentlemen, let him _not_ strike the old woman." The negative was added in the 2nd folio. * * * * * SC. 4. "You say he has been thrown into the rivers." It might be better to read _see_ for 'say.' * * * * * "That silk will I go buy. And in that time." With Mr. Dyce, I adopt Theobald's reading of _tire_ for 'time,' as best suited to the context. * * * * * "And he my husband best of all affects." If 'husband' be the subject to 'affects,' as I think he is, we should read _him_. See Introd. p. 52. * * * * * SC. 5. "Conceal them or thou diest." Collier's folio for 'or' reads _and_; but the text is right. Simple had used 'conceal' in the sense of reveal, and the Host repeats his word. * * * * * SC. 6. "The mirth whereof_'s_ so larded with my matter." ACT V. SC. 2. "Remember, son Slender, my _daughter_." The word _daughter_, necessary both for sense and metre, was supplied by the 2nd folio. * * * * * SC. 5. Among the characters given in the heading of this scene, we meet Mrs. Quickly and Pistol; the 4tos have "Mrs. Quickly, like the Queen of Fairies," and prefix _Quic._ to the following speeches, and it is not said that Anne was to assume that character. The folio heads the speeches with _Qui._ and _Qu._ We may therefore say that the poet was oblivious when, in iv. 4. 6, he said that Anne should "present the Fairy Queen;" for throughout she only appears as an ordinary fairy, as is plain by the mistake made by Caius and Slender. The poet seems to have confined the speaking to the elder persons. * * * * * "You moonshine-revellers, and shades of night, You orphan-heirs of fixed Destiny."