As a sound breathing is pure nonsense, Pope read _south_ for 'sound'; and, with the exception of Mr. Knight and Mr. Staunton, all the editors, I believe, have followed him. Yet even this correction does not remove the difficulty, for _south_ alone, no more than _north_, _east_, or _west_, is never used of the wind. It seems to me then that the poet wrote _south wind_, and as the _th_ was usually suppressed in _south_, _north_, etc., as _sou'-west_, _sou'-east_, the printer pronounced _sou wind_ or, it may be, _sou 'ind_, which easily became 'sound' in his mind, and so he printed it. (See Introd. p. 67.) It is rather remarkable that this very correction is made by an _Anon._ in the Cambridge Shakespeare. The same idea, I may observe, occurs in the Antonio and Mellida of Shakespeare's contemporary, Marston (Act I.): "Smile heaven and softest southern wind Kiss her cheek gently with perfumed breath." Both were probably indebted to "Her breath is more sweet than a gentle south-west wind, that comes creeping over flowery fields and shadowed waters" in Sidney's Arcadia. For a similar omission of _wind_, see on Temp. i. 2. * * * * * "So please _you_, my lord, I might not be admitted." * * * * * "The element itself, till seven years heat _'em_, Shall not behold her face at ample view." That is, not for seven summers, possibly with an allusion to racing, as in Win. Tale, i. 2. As the element is the sky, the heaven, we might also read _it_. * * * * * "_Of_ her sweet perfections with one self-king." That is with Love. We might also transpose, but, I think, with a loss of force. We have an instance of this prefixing of the genitive in Temp. iii. 3. * * * * * SC. 2. "They say she hath abjur'd the company And sight of men." This is the judicious transposition of Theobald. The folio has 'sight' in the first, 'company' in the second line, to the manifest injury of the metre. * * * * * SC. 3. "_Castiliano vulgo!_ for here comes Sir Andrew Aguecheek." Warburton's conjecture of _volto_ for 'vulgo' is ingenious, and may be right, meaning putting on a grave countenance, like a Castilian. * * * * * "An thou let _her_ part so sir Andrew." It was left to the 3rd folio to supply the needful _her_. * * * * * "Thou seest it will not curl by nature." Theobald's indubitable emendation of 'cool my nature' of the folio. * * * * * "In a flame-coloured stock."