"Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown. Here cousin, on this side my hand; and on that side yours." Some reject, as a needless repetition, which destroys the metre, the 'Here cousin' in the second line; but it serves to mark the impatience of the King. ACT V. SC. 1. "Hath Bolingbroke depos'd Thine intellect? hath he been in thy heart?" * * * * * "For why, the senseless brands will sympathize _With_ the heavy accent of thy moving tongue." * * * * * "_And_ he shall think that thou, which knowest the way." * * * * * "Sent back like Hallowmas, or shortest [of] day." As, on account of the rime, we must read 'day,' it is evident that 'of' is a superfluous addition made by the printers. We have just the same in Meas. for Meas. iv. 4, and elsewhere. * * * * * SC. 2. "If God prevent _me_ not, I purpose so." * * * * * "Yea, lookest thou pale? Let me see the writing, _sir_." * * * * * SC. 3. "Thy overflow of good converts to bad." What follows might lead us to read '_the_ bad.' * * * * * "But makes one pardon strong.--With all my heart I pardon him.--A god on earth thou art." This natural--I might almost say inevitable--transposition did not escape Pope; yet many subsequent editors have clung faithfully to the old printers! * * * * * "Uncle, farewell, and, cousin _mine_, adieu." This addition of Collier's folio is better than Theobald's of _too_, which makes an unpleasant jingle. * * * * * SC. 5. "My brain I'll prove the female to my soul." It might be better to read _will_ for 'I'll.' * * * * * "Against the Word, as thus: _Come, little ones_, and then again." The 'and' is most probably a printer's addition. * * * * * "My thoughts are minutes, and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch." As this is nonsense, and 'watches' was evidently suggested by 'watch,' I read _motions_ for 'watches on.' "To a minute, to a second; thou shalt set thy watch, and the bridegroom shall observe its _motions_" (Congreve, Love for Love, iii. 9). * * * * * "What art thou? and how camest thou _in_ hither?" KING HENRY IV.--PART I. ACT I. SC. 1. "Forthwith a power of English shall we levy." We might incline to read _lead_; but the text is right. Gifford quotes "Scipio before he _levied_ his forces to the walls of Carthage," from Gosson's School of Abuse, and other passages in its defence. * * * * * "Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did sir Walter see."