"And whëre one sad truth may _expiate_ Thy wrath." Donne, Elegy xiv. * * * * * SC. 5. "Because, my lord, we would have had you heard." Grammar requires 'hear.' * * * * * SC. 7. "To be spoke to, but _only_ by the Recorder." _Only_ is often omitted after 'but.' We might also read 'spoke_n_ _un_to.' * * * * * "He is not lulling on a lewd day-bed." A 'day-bed' was a couch or sofa. The folio has '_love_-bed.' 'Lulling' and _lolling_ are only different orthographies, like _justling_ and _jostling_. ACT IV. SC. 4. "That excellent grand tyrant of the earth, That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls." So Capell judiciously transposed these lines. * * * * * "Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee." For 'hate,' Tyrwhitt read _love_; Mason _have_. * * * * * SC. 5. "Sir Gilbert Talbot _and_ Sir William Stanley." ACT V. SC. 2. "That spoil'd your summer fields and fruitful vines." The context requires _spoils_. * * * * * SC. 3. "Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch-_light_." As he required a light, for he was going to write, and 'watch' alone never has this sense, I think _light_ may have been effaced. Introd. p. 58. * * * * * "Bid my guard watch. _Now_ leave me." * * * * * "Harry, that prophesy'd thou shouldest be king, Doth comfort thee in sleep _now_. Live and flourish." There is evidently a syllable wanting after 'sleep'; and _now_ seems, being as it were opposed to the preceding line, to be the most likely word. We might, perhaps, but with loss of force, read _slumber_ for 'sleep,' or 'Flourish and live'; but everywhere else it is 'Live and flourish.' The usual reading is 'in _thy_ sleep,' thus setting metre at defiance. Introd. p. 79. * * * * * "The lights burn blue. It is now dread midnight." This passage down to the line 'Find in myself,' etc., is perhaps the worst in all Shakespeare. Steevens was, I think, right in supposing that, though it is undoubtedly the poet's, he cancelled it; and I am of opinion that he substituted the three last lines of the speech--which, it may be seen, do not cohere with what precedes--and that the cancelled passage was retained by the copyist or printer, as was done in L. L. L. iv. 3, and v. 2. * * * * * "They thus directed, we will follow _then_." * * * * * SC. 4. "But tell me, _pray_, is young George Stanley living." The omission of _pray_ is here as in 1 Hen. IV. v. 2. * * * * *