This is the orthography of the folio; the 4tos read here _botled_, but in iv. 4 as the folio. Now as _bottled_ has, as far as my knowledge extends, but one sense, and one which would give no meaning here, it may be intended to show that the verb comes from _bottel_ or _bottle_ in the sense of truss, bundle, as a bottle of hay or straw, a sense which it retains in various compounds in the provincial dialects. 'Bottel'd spider' would then answer to 'bunch-back'd toad' a few lines further on. If this should not satisfy, we might read _bloated spider_, as in Cowper, Task. v. 442. * * * * * SC. 4. "Nay, I pr'ythee, stay a little; I hope my holy humour will change." This is the reading of the 4tos, which I prefer. The folio has 'passionate humour of _mine_.' The change, as Mr. Dyce says, was made by the editors on account of the statute 3 Jac. I. 21. * * * * * "If two such murderers as yourselves came to you Would not entreat for life? As you would beg Were you in my distress...-- Relent! no, _no_; 'tis cowardly and womanish." This punctuation gives, I think, the sense of the poet; and I am happy to find I had been anticipated in it by Singer. ACT II. SC. 1. "And more to peace my soul shall part to heaven." It might be better, though the meaning is the same, to read '_at_ peace,' as in the following line. The second 'to' was probably in the printer's mind. The usual reading is '_in_ peace' which may be right. * * * * * SC. 2. "To his new kingdom of ne'er-changing night." The more appropriate term, I think, would be _light_. Editors follow the reading of the 4tos, 'of perpetual rest.' * * * * * "And may direct his course as _it_ please himself." ACT III. SC. 1. "Too late he died, that might have kept that title." Surely it was too _soon_ or too _early_. This may, perhaps, be regarded as an instance of the substitution of a contrary term. In the Faerie Queen, however, we have "Saying, that harlot she _too lately_ knew" (i. 3. 25). "And knightly worth which he _too late_ did try" (Ib. iii. 9. 25). See Index, _s. v._ Too. * * * * * "I pray you, _gentle_ uncle, give me this dagger." We might also read 'give _to_ me'; but it would sound rather stiff. The usual reading is 'uncle _then_.' * * * * * "My lord, will it please you _to_ pass along?" * * * * * SC. 2. "My lord, I hold my life as dear as you do yours." The folio omits 'you do' which is necessary for the sense, and is in the 4tos. * * * * * SC. 3. "Make haste, the hour of death is expiate." In Sonnet xxii. 'expiate' is also used in the sense of expired, ended.