For 'By' we should apparently read _For_; yet in Jeronimo (ii. 1) we have:-- "Kneel by thy father's loins, and thank my liege _By_ honouring me, thy mother, and thyself, With this high staff of office." Either, then, the printers made the same confusion in both places, or _by_ was used in the sense of _for_. * * * * * SC. 5. "To Valentius, _to_ Rowland, and to Crassus." In 'Valentius' an _n_ may have been omitted. * * * * * SC. 6. "He says to veil _his_ full purpose." * * * * * "The generous and gravest citizens Have hent the gate; and very near upon _this time_ The Duke is entering. Therefore, hence away." Something had evidently been lost at the end of the second line. Perhaps also we should read 'The _most_ generous.' ACT V. SC. 1. "Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me here!" For 'here' we might read _hear_; but no change is needed. * * * * * "Nay it is ten times true." Perhaps it should be 'true_r_.' * * * * * "As _n_e'er I heard in madness." * * * * * "_He did_, my lord, most villainously. Believe it." * * * * * "First let her show _her_ face." It is _your_ in the 1st folio; the correction was made in the 2nd. * * * * * "No, my lord.--Are you a maid _then_?--No, my lord." * * * * * "Not that I know _of_.--No! you say your husband." * * * * * "And punish them, _unto_ your height of pleasure." * * * * * "We'll touze you Joint by joint, but we'll know his purpose. What! Unjust!--Be not so hot, _sir_; the Duke dare," etc. For _his_ in the second line we should certainly read _your_. * * * * * "Your well-defended honour, you must pardon _him_." * * * * * "A due sincerity govern'd his deeds, till he Did look on me. Since it is so, let him not die.-- My brother had but justice, in that he did The thing for which he died. For Angelo." * * * * * "Which is that Barnardine?--This _is_, my lord." * * * * * "Look that you love your wife; her worth'_s_ worth yours." * * * * * "Wherein have I deserved so of you?" In the folio 'so deserv'd.' * * * * * "There's more behind that is more gratulate." The poet may have written 'gratulat_ing_,' and the final letters have been effaced. The meaning, however, is the same. WINTER'S TALE. ACT I. SC. 1. "Their encounters, though not personal, have been _so_ royally attornied."