'Defile' is Pope's correction of _desire_ in the folio; and it probably is right. It makes very good sense. * * * * * SC. 5. "Can sodden water A drench for surrein'd steeds, their barley broth," etc. For 'surrein'd' the 4tos read _swolne_. Steevens quotes from Jack Drum's Entertainment, 1601:-- "Writes he not a good cordial sappy style?-- A _surrein'd_ jaded wit, but he rubs on." 'Surrein'd' may mean overriden. In Massinger we have, "Let passion work, or, like a _hot-rein'd_ horse, 'Twill quickly tire itself." Unnat. Comb. iv. 2. Shakespeare may, however, have written _surbeat_, or some other word. * * * * * "Poor _may_ we call them in their native lords." Sense and metre seem to require _may_. * * * * * "They bid us _go_ to the English dancing-schools." * * * * * "And for achievement offer us his ransom." Mr. Staunton proposes '_fore_ achievement'; but no change need be made. * * * * * SC. 6. "Which they trick up with new-tuned oaths." For 'tuned' Pope read _turned_; Collier's folio _coined_. * * * * * SC. 7. "The Dolphin longs for _the_ morning." The metre requires a syllable. ACT IV. _Chor._ "Thawing cold fear. Then, mean and gentle all." 'Then' is Theobald's correction, and a true and good one, of _that_ of the folio. See Introd. p. 68. * * * * * SC. 1. "Subject _un_to the breath of every fool." * * * * * "What is thy soul of adoration?" It would seem better to read _source_. Johnson read '_O_ adoration!' * * * * * "_He_ ne'er sees horrid Night, the child of Hell," etc. * * * * * "The sense of reckoning of the opposed numbers. Pluck their hearts from them not to-day, O Lord! Oh, not to-day!--Think not upon the fault," etc. So I punctuate. Many editors follow Tyrwhitt in reading '_if_ the' for 'of the' in the first line. Theobald read _lest_ for 'of.' * * * * * SC. 2. "And doubt them with superfluous courage." For 'doubt' Pope read _daunt_; Rowe, followed by Dyce and Cambridge editors, _dout_. As the 'superfluous courage' seems to be the blood spun out, the word may be _daub_. * * * * * "I stay but for my guard. On to the field!"