"You did mistake,--_No_, no, if I mistake." * * * * * "I would land-damn him." As 'land-damn' seems to be an unknown term, it might be better to read, with Collier's folio, _lamback_, derived perhaps from _lambiccare_, It. There is also a vulgar term _lambaste_. 'Damn' was probably suggested by the same word in the preceding line. * * * * * SC. 3. "We have always truly served you and beseech _you_." * * * * * "They have been absent. 'Tis good speed, _and_ foretells." We might also read _it_; or, with Pope, '_This_ good speed.' ACT III. SC. 2. "This sessions--to our great grief we pronounce _it_." * * * * * "To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore Who please to come and hear." We might be inclined to read _plead_ for 'prate'; but no change is required. * * * * * "Since he came With what encounter so uncurrent I Have strain'd to appear thus." I read 'have I Strain'd to appear thus?' in which I had been anticipated by Hanmer. An 'uncurrent encounter' was an unusual kind of meeting; and 'strain'd' signifies pulled against the line of my duty as a wife--a metaphor taken from dogs in a leash-- "What I was I am, More _straining_ on for plucking back, not following My leash unwillingly" (iv. 3). It might also signify, acted indecorously, "Unless he know some _strain_ in me that I know not myself." Merry Wives, ii. 1. * * * * * "You will not own it.--More than _I am_ mistress of." So also Hanmer corrected. * * * * * "Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself, No father owning it." If we read '_left_ to itself' we might get better sense. * * * * * "But yet hear this; mistake me not. No! life-- I prize it not a straw.... But, for mine honour." So we may best punctuate, with Hanmer. We might perhaps read '_For_ life,' as above. * * * * * "Which you knew great, and to the hazard _boldly_." The 2nd folio reads '_certain_ hazard.' * * * * * "What studied torments, tyrant, hast _thou_ for me? What wheels? _what_ racks? _what_ fires? what flaying, boiling, In leads or oils?" See above, i. 2. Introd. p. 55. * * * * * "Who is lost too. Take your patience to you, _sir_." * * * * * SC. 3. "Which may, if Fortune please, both breed thee, pretty _one_." So Rowe also. * * * * * "A boy or a child, I wonder."