Hanmer reads _stout_ for 'stoop,' but I see no need of change. We talk of a person being bowed to the earth with grief, and this is what the poet meant. 'Owner' was used of one who simply had, as "But like the _owner_ of a foul disease" (Ham. iv. 1). * * * * * "But as we under Heaven are supreme head, So under Him that great supremacy." Collier's folio reads _Heaven_ for 'Him,' which is very good. * * * * * "In likeness of a new, untrimmed bride." This would seem intended to express the indecent haste of the wedding, the bride having, as it were, no _trousseau_, but being married in her ordinary clothes. In ii. 2 it was termed an "unlook'd-for, unprepared pomp." Theobald proposed '_and_ trimm'd' and '_be_trimm'd'; Dyce reads '_up_trimm'd.' * * * * * "A cased lion by the mortal paw." As 'cased' is skinned, it can hardly be right. I read, as Mitford, I find, had done, _caged_. "So looks a _pent-up_ lion, o'er the wretch That trembles under his _devouring paws_." 3 Hen. VI. i. 3. As Shakespeare had re-made this play not long before, the image may have remained in his mind. We might also read _raged_, i.e. enraged-- "In war was never lion rag'd more fierce" (Rich. II. ii. 1); or, with Theobald, _chafed_-- "So looks the _chafed_ lion Upon the daring huntsman that ha gall'd him" (Hen. VIII. iii. 2). * * * * * "By what thou swear'st against the thing thou swear'st." I rather think that the second 'swear'st' should be _swor'st_. Possibly _to_ or _by_ was lost at the end of the line; but we have, "Thou swear'st thy gods in vain." Lear, i. 1. * * * * * SC. 2. "Some airy devil hovers in the sky." Warburton proposed _fiery_, needlessly. * * * * * "_Here_, Hubert, keep this boy.--Philip, make up." * * * * * SC. 3. "Of hoarding abbots; imprison'd angels Set at liberty: the fat ribs of peace." Never was a more happy and a more certain correction than S. Walker's transposition of 'imprison'd angels' and 'Set at liberty,' which restores the metre of two lines. * * * * * "Sound on into the drowsy race of Night." As Shakespeare had read, in the Faerie Queen, of Night "To run her timely _race_" (i. 5. 45), the attempted corrections of 'race' are all superfluous. So also is Warburton's reading of _one_ for 'on'; for 'Sound on' is keep sounding. * * * * * "Then in despight of brooded, watchful day." As 'brooded' is brooding, no just objection can be made. Pope proposed _broad-eyed_, Mitford _broad and_. * * * * *