* * * * * "Drop on you both! a south-west _wind_ blow on ye!" As _north_, _south_, etc., were not used alone of the wind, I have added _wind_, which also gives energy to the expression, which is tame and feeble, if the metric accent fall on 'ye.' See on Twelfth Night, i. 1. * * * * * "Oho! oho! _I_ would it had been done!" * * * * * "The wild waves whist." Steevens properly made this a parenthesis. 'Whist' is whisted, hushed. "The moisting air was _whist_, no leaf ye could have moving seen." Golding, Ovid, p. 81. * * * * * "Of his bones are coral_s_ made." * * * * * "Make the prize light. One word more, _sir_. I charge thee." * * * * * "The wrack of all my friends, nor this man's threats, To whom I am subdued, are but light to me." For 'nor' Steevens read _or_; we might also read _and_ or _nay_; but perhaps it is as it was written. For 'are,' too, the proper word would be _were_. ACT II. SC. 1. "Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause Of joy:--so have we all; for our escape," etc. I make the transposition of "So have we all--of joy," in the second line boldly; for surely neither Shakespeare nor any other writer would put a parenthesis between a noun and its genitive. Gonzalo is speaking quite calmly, and without any perturbation. We have an exactly similar printer's error in "Add more, From thine invention, offers." Ant. and Cleop. iii. 10. "One of these two must be necessities." Wint. Tale, iv. 3. See also Hen. VIII. iii. 1. * * * * * "Every day some sailor's wife, The master's of some merchant--and the merchant Have just our theme of woe." The word 'merchant' occurs here in two different senses; and when this play was written Shakespeare had long since abstained from such practices. One of them, therefore, must belong to the printer; if the first, then we might, and I think should, read _vessel_, if the second, _owner_. 'Merchant' certainly occurs in the sense of merchantman. See B. and F. Coxcomb, i. 3. * * * * * "_Ant._ Ha, ha, ha! So you're paid." Theobald's arrangement; the folio gives 'So,' etc., to _Seb._ * * * * * "To the shore that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd, As stooping to relieve him." Possibly the poet wrote _receive_, which seems more appropriate. * * * * * "Weigh'd, between loathness and obedience, at Which end o' the beam should bow."