"Vasta velut Libyæ venantum vocibus ales Cum premitur calidas cursu transmittit arenas, Inque modum veli sinuatis flamine pennis Pulverulenta volat." In Eutrop. ii. 310. But surely this is sailing with, not winging the wind; and what has it to do with 'plum'd'? I very much doubt if Claudian ever saw an ostrich running; for that was only to be seen in the desert, which Egyptians rarely visited at any period. * * * * * "Baited like eagles having lately bath'd." I know no sense of the verb _bait_ that will give any tolerable meaning here. To read 'Bated,' as is usually done, from _bate_, to flap the wings, gives merely a ridiculous sense. I have a strong persuasion that the poet's word was _Beated_, a term which he also uses in Son. lxii., where, by the way, the critics seem not to have understood it. _Bete_, _beat_, _beath_, is to kindle, heat, dry; and the idea in the poet's mind seems to have been that of eagles, after refreshing themselves by bathing, sitting on rocks for the sun to dry their plumage. To these he likens the young knights, fresh and vigorous, sitting on their war-steeds, under the beams of the sun. Hence he goes on to say "Glittering," etc. * * * * * SC. 2. "There's not a shirt and a half in all my company." For 'not,' Rowe, who is usually followed, read _but_. In my Edition I have given here and in v. 3 'not _but_' as more forceable. See Index, But. * * * * * SC. 3. "Into his title, which we find _to be_ Too indirect for long continuance." ACT V. SC. 1. "So tell your cousin, and bring me word _again_ What he will do." * * * * * SC. 2. "Suspicion, all our lives, shall be stuck full of eyes." The word in 4tos and folio is _Supposition_, which may be right; the correction is Pope's. * * * * * "Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so." This is so abrupt and prosaic that I think we should read '_pray_ go you.' * * * * * "_Up_on his follies; never did I hear Of any prince so wild a liberty." So the 4tos. The folio reads '_at_ liberty'; Capell _libertine_, which is the reading usually adopted, even by the Cambridge editors. In Com. of Err. (i. 2) we have "such like _liberties_ of sin" of persons. * * * * * "If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour ... An if we live, we live to tread on kings." The aposiopesis here is in character with Hotspur, but there may be a line or more lost. * * * * * SC. 3. "What is thy name that in _the_ battle thus." * * * * * "The King hath many marching in his coats."