A most happy emendation was that made by Dr. Thackeray, and by an Anon. _ap._ Rann: "I stay but for my _guidon_.--To the field!" This is amply confirmed by the following line, and by this passage of Holinshed, "The Duke of Brabant, when his standard was not come, caused a banner to be taken from a trumpet and fastened to a spear, the which he commanded to be borne before him instead of a standard." _Guidon_ is a term still in use in the cavalry service. * * * * * SC. 3. "He that shall see this day and live _to_ old age." Pope, who has been usually followed, transposed 'see' and 'live.' I rather think _to_ was omitted, and see no necessity for transposition. * * * * * "They'll be in fresher robes; for they will pluck," etc. The 4to and folio both, which all the editors follow, read 'or they'; my own and Hanmer's conjecture is 'for they,' which alone gives sense, by explaining how they would be 'in fresher robes.' How easily might the _f_ have been lost or omitted! * * * * * SC. 4. "_Calitay! Callinó castorè me!_" I have ventured to change the 'Qualtitie' of the folio to _Calitay_, the English mode of pronouncing _qualité_, with the accent on the last syllable; which suggests _Callino_, etc., for which see Index _s. v._ The French _qualité_ would never suggest _quality_ to an illiterate Englishman. * * * * * SC. 5. "Let us die in ... Once möre back again." By this punctuation the reading of the folio becomes clear. Knight, whom late editors follow, reads 'in _honour_,' which occurs in the 4to. * * * * * SC. 7. "To book our dead and then to bury them." Collier's folio reads _look_, which might seem preferable. * * * * * SC. 8. "Now, Herald, are the dead _all_ numbered?" It might be better to read 'the dead on _both sides_.' ACT V. _Chor._ "_And_ the Emperor's coming in behalf of France." * * * * * SC. 1. "I eat and eat I swear...." I read, with Johnson, 'eke' for the second 'eat,' as more Pistolian. * * * * * SC. 2. "So happy be the issue, brother Ireland." I retain this reading of the folio; for I cannot see what should make the printer change England to Ireland, while the Queen may have done so to vary the title. * * * * * "Is be full of deceits; dat is de princess _say_." * * * * * "Wanting the scythe all uncorrected, rank." The folio reads 'withal' for 'all.' * * * * * "And as our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges." The folio has '_all_ our,' which the context rejects. 'As' is the reading of Capell. * * * * * "_Sauf votre honneur_, me understand _not_ well."