I think we should read '_maid_-child', a term we meet with in Pericles, v. 3. We have _man-child_ in Cor. i. 3, and in the Bible. I made the correction without being aware of the passage in Pericles. * * * * * "You're a made old man." In the folio it is _mad_; but this correction, given by Theobald, is indubitable. ACT IV. "_Chorus._ To the effects of his fond jealousy, so grieving." * * * * * "If never yet, that Time himself doth say, He wishes earnestly you never may." This is evidently one of the cases in which 'that' has taken the place of _than_, _then_. See Introd. p. 68. * * * * * SC. 1. "but I fear the angle, that plucks my son thither." I adopt Theobald's reading of _and_ for 'but.' * * * * * SC. 2. "Within a mile _of_ where my land and living lies." * * * * * SC. 3. "I should blush To see you so attired; sworn, I think, To show myself a glass." For 'sworn' Theobald, followed by Singer and Dyce, reads _swoon_; but the text is right; 'myself' is simply me: "Upon my life she finds, although I cannot, _Myself_ to be a marvellous proper man." Rich. III. i. 2. "He will the rather do it when he sees _Ourselves_ well-sinewed to our defence." King John, v. 7. * * * * * "Burn hotter than my faith _does_.--Oh! but, sir." * * * * * "One of these two necessities must be." So also Hanmer read. (See on Temp. ii. 1.) The folio has 'must be necessities.' * * * * * "On his shoulder and _on_ his, her face of fire." * * * * * "As your good flock shall prosper.--Sir, welcome." A syllable is lost apparently. We might add _hither_ or _to us_ at the end, or, as I have done,'_you're_ welcome.' Malone would read 'welcome, sir,' which sounds rather flat. Mr. Collier observes that "Shakespeare [_i.e._ the printer?] was a better judge of verse than Mr. Malone." * * * * * "From Dis's waggon! daffodils." An epithet, probably _yellow_, which I have given, has evidently been lost here. All the other flowers, we may see, have epithets. Coleridge also saw the want, and supplied _golden_. How ill-qualified he was for emendatory criticism! Hanmer's _early_ was much better. * * * * * "Nothing but that, _but so_ move still, still so." * * * * * "And the true blood that peeps fairly through it."