The explanations given of 'Balk'd' do not satisfy me. Steevens has given some good authority for _Bak'd_, the conjecture of Grey; but on the whole I incline to Heath's _Bath'd_. Still I have made no alteration. * * * * * "Mordake, _the_ earl of Fife, and eldest son To beaten Douglas, and the earls of Athol, Of Murray, _and_ of Angus and Menteith." * * * * * SC. 2. "If thou darest not stand for ten shillings." Pope also read, as I do, '_cry_ stand.' * * * * * SC. 3. "And you have found me; for accordingly You tread upon my patience." I read 'have found me _so_. Accordingly.' In Com. of Err. i. 1. and elsewhere we have _so_ for _for_. * * * * * "I will from henceforth rather be myself, Mighty and to be fear'd, than my condition." What is the difference between 'myself' and 'my condition,' _i.e._ natural disposition? I read 'my condition _past_.' * * * * * "Out of my grief and my impatience To be so pestered with a popinjay." So Edwards and Johnson properly transposed these lines. * * * * * "Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, _from_ henceforth." * * * * * "By Richard that dead is, the next of blood." It is so printed in both 4tos and folio; but we surely should read 'is dead.' * * * * * "As to o'erwalk a current roaring loud." Perhaps the poet used the more forceable term, _torrent_. * * * * * "But not the form of what he should attend _to_." * * * * * "Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own." Perhaps 'Tying' was not the poet's word. It may have been _Turning_, or some other. * * * * * "Will easily be granted. You, my lord," etc. Such is the proper punctuation, also proposed by Thirlby. * * * * * "I'll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer." There is evidently a line lost after this. ACT II. SC. 1. "But with nobility and tranquillity." To all appearance, _gentility_ would be more correct; but he may be playing on the ignorance of the Chamberlain, to whom the word was unknown. He then says 'great-onyers' for great-ones. * * * * * SC. 2. "Away, good Ned. _Fat_ Falstaff sweats to death." So also Capell. * * * * * SC. 3. "One horse, my lord, he _hath_ brought even now." * * * * * SC. 4. "Ned, prythee come out of that fat room." I suspect we should read _hot_ room. * * * * * "Pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the sweet tale of the son's."