Grey proposed _Charm_ for 'Clamour,' and in Othello (v. 2) we have the very phrase, "charm your tongue." But, as far as I have observed, _charm_ in this sense is used only by characters of the educated class. Singer says 'clamour' here is a mere corruption of _chamour_, _chaumer_, or _chaumbre_, from the French _chômer_, 'to refrain,' and he adds, "Mr. Hunter has cited a passage from Taylor, the water-poet, in which the word was thus again perverted:--'_Clamour_ the promulgation of your tongue.'" For my own part I think that, except in orthography, the text is right. The real word was probably _clammer_ or _clemmer_, the same as the simple _clam_ or _clem_, to squeeze or press, and the phrase answers to _Hold your tongues_. "To _clam_ a bell," says Johnson, "is to cover the dapper with felt, which drowns the blow and hinders the sound." As for the extract from Taylor, I attach little importance to it, as he probably adopted the word from this very passage. See on Rom. and Jul. iii. 3. * * * * * "Why, sir, they stay at door." The folio places 'sir' at the end of the speech; but the metre requires the transposition, which also makes the reply run more naturally. I neglected to make it in my Edition. * * * * * "Can he speak? hear? Know man from man? dispute his own estate?" In Romeo and Juliet (iii. 3) we have, "Let me dispute with thee of thy estate;" but in Jonson's Fox, iii. 2, "Read you the principles, argued all the grounds, Disputed every fitness, every grace." * * * * * "Far than Deucalion off." 'Far' is an old form for _farther_, as _near_ is of _nearer_. (See Rich. II. iii. 2, v. 1.) We need not then read _farther_, nor, with Johnson, 'Far _as_.' * * * * * "Or hoop his body more with thy embraces." The folio has 'hope,' the orthography of the time. * * * * * "Looks on _it_ alike. Will't please you, sir, begone?" * * * * * "To die upon the bed my father died _on_." * * * * * "And most opportune to our need I have." For 'our' the folio reads _her_, probably from the preceding line. Theobald made the correction. * * * * * "His welcomes forth; asks thee, the son, forgiveness." The folio has _there_ for 'the.' The correction was made in the 3rd folio. * * * * * "She is as forward of her breeding as She's in the rear _of_ our birth." * * * * * "And then your blood had been the dearer by I know _not_ how much an ounce." Hanmer added the negative. * * * * * "Besides the King to effect your suits, here is _the_ man shall do." ACT V.