"He makes a July's day short as December'_s_." * * * * * "With all the nearest things to my heart as well _as_." * * * * * "Resides not in that man that does not think _it_." This is the reading of the 2nd folio also. * * * * * "Why he that wears her like her medal hanging About his neck." "That like a jewel has hung twenty years About his neck." Hen. VIII. ii. 2. With Collier's folio, I read _a_ for 'her.' The error, suggested by the preceding 'her,' is an ordinary one with printers. * * * * * "With the pin and _the_ web, but theirs, theirs only." In Florio a cataract in the eye is termed "a pin and _a_ web." * * * * * "Is goads, _is_ thorns, _is_ nettles, tails of wasps." * * * * * "I am appointed _by_ him to murder you." The 'appointed him' of the folio is a strange expression. * * * * * "That e'er was heard or read _of_. Swear his thought over By each particular star." This, if correct, would seem to mean exorcise his thought, try to banish it. * * * * * "Profess'd _love_ to him, why his revenges must In that be made more bitter. Fear o'ershades me. Good expedition be my friend, and comfort The gracious queen." How could his expedition or haste to depart comfort the queen? It would seem to have the contrary effect, as tending to prove her guilt. For 'and' in the third line we might, with Singer, read _God_, or, as I have done, with Hanmer, _Heaven_. The insertion of _love_ in the first line seems necessary. ACT II. SC. 1. "And why so, my _dear_ lord?--Not for because." * * * * * "Or a half-moon made with a pen.--Who taught _you_ this?" * * * * * "All's true that is mistrusted." For 'is' it might be better to read _was_. The change was not unusual. * * * * * "Has made thee swell thus.--But I'd say he _had_ not." _Has_ might seem to have been the poet's word. * * * * * "More, she's a traitor; and Camillo is A federary with her, and one that knows _her_ _To be_ what she should shame to know herself, But with her most vile principal." 'Federary' is an unknown word. It may be a printer's error for _federate_; but I rather think--as I find that Malone, followed by Singer and Dyce, reads, and which is also more metrical--that the right word is _fedary_, to be taken in the same sense as in Meas. for Meas. and Cymb. As Polyxenes is styled 'her principal,' the meaning may be that she (and Camillo 'with her') had transferred her allegiance to him. * * * * *