For 'low, lie down,' Warburton read _lowly clown_. But it is of a ship-boy the poet is speaking, and he would hardly make so sudden a transition. ACT IV. SC. 1. "Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rage And countenanc'd by boys and beggary." There may be some doubt about 'bloody'; for 'rage' Sidney Walker and Collier's folio read _rags_, which seems confirmed by the following line. * * * * * "Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood." For 'graves' Warburton and Hanmer read _glaives_, Steevens, _greaves_. Neither of these words occurs in Shakespeare, and I rather suspect that the poet's word was _braves_, _i.e._ bravadoes, boasts. "I will not bear these _braves_ of thine" (Tam. of Shr. iii. 1). "Now where's the Bastard's _braves_?" (1 Hen. VI. iii. 2). * * * * * "And are enforc'd from our most quiet there." For 'there' Warburton read _sphere_; perhaps we might read _haven_. But, as in Lear (i. 1) we have "Thou losest _here_ a better _where_ to find," 'there' is probably the poet's word, both it, _here_ and _where_ being used as nouns signifying place. * * * * * "My brother-general the commonwealth ... To brother-born a household cruelty I make my quarrel in particular." The second line is not in the folio, and there may be, as some critics think, a line lost; but my punctuation removes all difficulty. We have only to understand _makes his quarrel_; yet how strangely critics have puzzled over this not very difficult passage! We should perhaps read 'generals'; for Hastings and Bardolph seem to have equal authority with Mowbray. Lord Scroop had been put to death at Bristol, 1 Hen. IV. i. 3. * * * * * "And bless'd and grac'd, and did more than the king _affect_." Thirlby conjectured _indeed_ for 'and did.' I rather think there was, as usual, an effacement at the end of the line. * * * * * "Every thing set off That might so much as think you enemies." This is a strange use of 'think'; we should perhaps read _hint_, were it not that this verb does not occur in Shakespeare. * * * * * "And present execution of our wills To us and to our purposes confin'd." For 'confin'd' Hanmer read _confirm'd_; Johnson, _consign'd_. I confess I do not clearly understand the passage. * * * * * "That were our royal faiths martyrs in love." Hanmer and Johnson read _loyal_; but Malone makes a good defence of 'royal.' * * * * * "No, no, my lord. Note this, the king is weary of _Such_ dainty and such picking grievances." I think it was thus the poet wrote, but that _such_ was effaced and then 'of' transposed on account of the metre. * * * * *