SC. 1. "Destroyed the sweetest companion that e'er man Bred his hopes out of.--True, too true, my lord." The folio gives 'True' to the King. See on As You Like It, ii. 1. Ant. and Cleop. ii. 2. * * * * * "Was like to be the best.--_My_ good Paulina." * * * * * "Would make her sainted spirit Again possess her corpse, and on this stage, Where we offenders now appear, soul-vex'd, And begin, Why to me?...--Had she such power She had just such cause." In the third line I adopt, with Mr. Dyce, the certain, as I think, emendation of Mr. Spedding, 'Where we offend _her_,' and I join 'now' with it. _Offender_ and _offend her_ are pronounced exactly alike, and 'we' caused the printer to add _s_. In the last line 'such,' caused by that in the preceding line, is superfluous, and should be omitted. * * * * * "Will have your tongue too. This is a creature _who_." * * * * * "Whose daughter His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her." I would read, as I find Thirlby read, _her_ for the second 'his,' caused probably by the first. * * * * * "Give you all greetings that a king at friend." The 2nd folio reads needlessly '_as_ friend.' * * * * * "Which lames Report to follow it, and undoes Description to do it _justice_." This last word, added by Singer, is required both by sense and metre. * * * * * "That she might no more be in danger of losing _her_." * * * * * "_And_ caught the water, though not the fish." * * * * * "And himself little better, _and_ extremity of weather continuing." * * * * * SC. 3. "On those that think it is unlawful business." Hanmer properly read _Or_ for 'On.' * * * * * "Strike all that look upon _you_ with marvel. Come." * * * * * "This is your son-in-law, And son unto the king, who, heavens directing, Is troth-plight to your daughter." So it should be punctuated. The folio reads 'whom,' confounding, as usual, _who_ and _whom_; of which there are other instances in this play. See Introd. p. 59. THE TEMPEST. ACT I. SC. 1. "Mercy on us! We split, we split! farewell, my wife and children! Farewell, _my_ brother! we split, we split, we split!" This is, beyond question, "the confused noise within," and not the exclamation of Gonzalo, of whose family we hear nothing. Speaking behind the scenes was not unusual. * * * * * "Long heath, brown furze."