SC. 4. "So by a roaring tempest, on the flood A whole armado of convicted sail," etc. For 'convicted' I read _conflicted_, i.e. dashed, or dashing together. We have "_conflicting_ wind and rain" (Lear, iii. 1), "_conflicting_ elements" (Tim. iv. 3). It seems more probable than any of the various corrections proposed. * * * * * "No scope of Nature, no distempered day." I adopt Pope's reading, _'scape_. * * * * * "Strong reasons make strong actions." So 2nd folio properly reads; the 1st has '_strange_ actions.' ACT IV. SC. 1. "Can you not read it? is it not fair_ly_ writ?" The reply proves that we should read so. * * * * * "And quench this fiery indignation." The context shows that 'this' should be _his_. * * * * * SC. 2. "Doth make a stand at what your Highness will_s_." * * * * * "And more, more strong then lesser, is my fear." I read '_in_ my fear.' We have _Is_ for _In_ also in Jul. Cæs. i. 3; the same confusion of these words occurs more than once in Chaucer. I have often met with it in books printed in the last century; and I myself, in writing these Notes, have frequently confounded these words. * * * * * "If what in rest you have in right you hold, Why then your fears--which, as they say, attend The steps of wrong--should move you to mew up Your tender kinsman," etc. As it is plain, from what went before, that they should not have that effect, editors have made a transposition of 'then' and 'should.' It seems to me, however, that here, as in so many other places, the printer omitted the negative after 'should.' I do not perfectly understand 'rest' in the preceding line, but it may be tranquillity, tranquil, undisturbed possession, a sense it bears in Scripture. See Ps. xcv. 11, cxvi. 7. * * * * * "That you'_d_ have bid us ask his liberty." * * * * * "How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done!" So also Capell and Collier's folio have transposed in the last line. * * * * * "As bid me tell my tale in express words." For 'As' Pope read _Or_, Malone _And_. * * * * * "Thou art a murderer.--Do not prove me so; Yet am I none." For 'not,' which makes no sense, we should read _you_ or _but_. I prefer the latter. ACT V. SC. 1. "Send fairplay orders and make compromise." For 'orders' Collier's folio reads _offers_, which I have adopted. * * * * * SC. 2. "That we the sons and children of this isle Were born to see so sad an hour as this." For 'Were' the folio has _Was_, produced by 'isle.' * * * * *