SC. 1. "_Ay_, but the safer when 'tis back'd by France." * * * * * "Go tell false Edward thy supposed King." The folio has _the_ for 'thy.' * * * * * SC. 3. "While he himself keeps in the cold field _here_." * * * * * "I'll follow you, and tell _him then_ what answer." * * * * * SC. 6. "And all his lands and goods confiscate_d_." * * * * * SC. 7. "_I' faith_, a wise, stout captain, and soon persuaded." ACT V. SC. 5. "Take that, the likeness of this railer here." For 'the' I incline to read '_thou_.' * * * * * SC. 6. "Men for their sons, wives for their husbands, _And_ orphans for their parents' timeless death." In the first line the 2nd folio adds _fate_, as it does _And_ in the second line. For _fate_ we might perhaps better read, as I have done, _mourning_. KING RICHARD III. ACT I. SC. 1. "Antony Woodeville, her brother there." Here we must read 'Woodeville' as a trisyllable, like Catesby sometimes in this play, and Colleville in 2 Hen. IV. iv. 3. * * * * * "Even so, an'_t_ please your worship, Brackenbury." * * * * * "Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous." The folio has _jealious_, which may be read as a trisyllable, of which Sidney Walker has given examples, though none from Shakespeare. I, however, prefer reading 'yeärs' and 'faïr,' as more suited to the slow _chaffing_ tone of Gloster: "Of foür hoürs long. I must endure all." Fletch. Chances, i. 6. * * * * * "Which I must reach unto by marrying her." This transposition seems necessary; for he is speaking simply and without involution. * * * * * SC. 2. "The bleeding witness of her hatred by." This is the reading of the 4tos; the folio has _my_, but _her_ hatred had been mentioned only two lines before. Still the point is doubtful. * * * * * SC. 3. "The slave of nature and the son of hell." So in The Honest Whore (Part I. i. 6) we have, "You [harlots] are the miserablest creatures breathing, The very _slaves of nature_." But that expression may have been taken from this very place. * * * * * "Why strewest thou sugar on that bottel'd spider?"