For 'broom' Hanmer read _brown_, which I have adopted; though contrary to my rule (see Introd. p. 51), as I have met no earlier authority for this use of _brown_ than Milton. The poet's word may have been _broad_ or _trim_. The broom never attains a height to justify the terming it a 'grove.' Dyer, a good authority, has in his Fleece "_low-tufted_ broom," and Bloomfield (Rural Tales) "_tufts_ of green broom," both using the proper term. I doubt if 'grove' is ever used of any but forest-trees. * * * * * "Spring come to you at the farthest, In the very end of harvest." No one has ever made, or can make, sense of this. For 'Spring' Collier's folio reads _Rain_--no great improvement. The fact is, as the context plainly shows, that the poet's word was _Shall_. With this simple change the whole passage becomes clear and grammatical, and forms a parallel to the fairy-blessing at the end of Mids. Night's Dream. * * * * * "So rare a wonder'd father and a wise." Some copies of the folio read 'wife' for 'wise'; which has become the general reading, even that of the Cambridge Edition. I prefer, as more Shakespearian, the other reading, which is also that of all the succeeding folios. * * * * * "Makes this place paradise--_O_ sweet, now silence." * * * * * "You nymphs, called Naiads of the winding brooks, With your sedg'd crowns and ever harmless looks." The word in the folio is _windring_; so it is doubtful whether we should read _winding_ or _wandering_. 'Sedg'd' may have been _sedge_; for the sound is exactly the same in this place. * * * * * "You do look in a mov'd sort, my son." The folio reads "my son, in a moved sort." * * * * * "Leave not a wrack behind." This is undoubtedly the true reading. The folio has _racke_, but instances of this error are common. See my note on Milton's Par. Reg. iv. 452. We have _wrack_ for _rack_ in "Even like a man new-haled from the _wrack_." 1 Hen. VI. ii. 5. * * * * * "Humanly speaking all, all lost, quite lost." With Malone, I read _are_ for the second 'all.' In the same way we have "sir, sir," in All's Well, v. 2. * * * * * "_O_ good my lord, give me thy favour still." * * * * * "Let us alone, And do the murder first." With Theobald I read 'Let us along,' which connects so well with what follows: we have this very expression in Wint. Tale, v. 2; and see on L. L. L. iv. 3. Hanmer read 'Let _it_ alone.' * * * * * "Make us strange stuff ..." * * * * * "_Hey_, Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark, hark!" ACT V.