"All this divided York and Lancaster-- Divided in their dire division-- Oh! now let Richmond and Elizabeth," etc. KING HENRY VIII. ACT I. SC. 1. "Out of his self-drawing web. Oh! gives us note, The force of his own merit makes his way." So the folio reads. Steevens and Malone read 'he gives us note,' and Singer 'Oh, _it_ gives us note.' Mr. Collier says, very plausibly, that the 'Oh' arose from '_a_ being written for _he_. I read "Out of his self-drawing web--Oh, give it note!" * * * * * "A gift that Heaven gives for him, which buys." Perhaps 'for' should be _to_. * * * * * "A new hell in himself _now_.--Why the Devil." * * * * * "And his own letters, The honourable board of Council out, Must fetch in him he papers." 'Papers' is here evidently a verb, as Pope saw, in the sense of 'puts on paper'; but we have no other instance of it. Mr. Staunton proposes _paupers_, a verb equally unknown and still more devoid of meaning here. I cannot regard 'papers' as right; yet I know not what to propose in its place. Possibly the original may have been _puts there_. * * * * * "A beggar's book Outworths a noble's blood." Collier's folio reads _brood_ for 'book,' and a rime may have been intended. * * * * * SC. 2. "To you that chok'd it." 'Chok'd' is a very bold term in this place; perhaps the word was _check'd_. * * * * * "I am solicited, not by a few, _to tell you_-- And those of true condition--that your subjects Are in great grievance." It is quite evident something has been lost here. * * * * * "That tractable Obedience is a slave." For 'That' the folio has _This_. * * * * * "There is no primer business." 'Business' is the correction of both Southern and Warburton for _baseness_ of the folio, and is deservedly adopted by most editors. * * * * * "What we oft do best, By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is Not ours, or not allow'd." 'By' would seem to be here the same as _apud_ or _bei_, Germ., a sense it sometimes bears (see Index _s. v._). Steevens gives instances of 'once' in the sense of sometimes; but I should incline to read _or_ or _and_, with those whom he terms "the modern editors." I suspect that 'sick' may have been _such_. * * * * * "State statues only.--Things done well." Perhaps _my lord_ or _lord cardinal_ has been effaced at the end. * * * * * "Almost with listening ravish'd, could not find." The folio has 'ravish'd listening.' * * * * *