Theobald, in my mind most properly, proposed _sea-mells_, of the existence of which term Malone and Reed have given abundant proofs; by the usual change of _l_ to _w_ we have _sea-mew_, the term now in use. Yet some editors persist in retaining the old printer's error, as limpets are in some places called _scams_ or _scammels_, not reflecting that old limpets are to be preferred. Mr. Dyce reads _staniels_, after another conjecture of Theobald's. * * * * * "Nor scrape trencher nor wash dish." In the folio it is 'trenchering,' caused by the participles in the preceding line. ACT III. SC. 1. "Point to rich ends. This my mean task Would be as heavy to me, as odious; but." The first line here is short, which it should not be, as it does not begin or end a paragraph. (See Introd. p. 82.) We should therefore arrange thus: "Point to rich ends. This my mean task would be As heavy to me as '_tis_ odious; but." It is very remarkable that I never noticed this until after my Edition had been printed. However, I rectified it in the corrections. * * * * * "But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours, Most busy, lest when I do it...." This punctuation removes all difficulty. The entrance of Miranda causes him to break off. * * * * * "So perfect and so peerless are created." The folio reads _peetiesse_. It escaped the Camb. editors. * * * * * "And would no more endure This wooden slavery, than to suffer The flesh-fly blow my mouth." Though, as Malone has shown, this construction is quite correct, still, as Pope also saw, the metre demands 'than _I would_ suffer.' In the Maid's Tragedy (iv. 2) we have "'Tis fit an old man and a counsellor To fight for what he says," where we must either read 'fit _for_,' or '_should_ fight,' to make any sense. * * * * * "Beyond all limit of what's else in the world." * * * * * "Much business appertaining _to my project_." "Now does _my project_ gather to a head."--v. 1. * * * * * SC. 2. "As you like this give me the lie another time." Perhaps for 'As' we should read _An_. * * * * * "_Trin._ Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano." The first sentence here belongs, I think, to Stephano's last speech. See on As You Like it, ii. 1. * * * * * SC. 3. "If I should say I saw such islanders." The folio has 'islands.' So in the Queen of Corinth (iii. 1), "Our neighbour islands would make of us." In both places sense and metre alike require _islanders_. * * * * *