Holingshed's words are, "By crafty suggestion got into his hands innumerable treasure." * * * * * "Unwilling to outlive the good that did it." We must either read _he_ for 'that,' or, what is more likely, suppose a word lost at the end of the line. We might read _cherish_, as we have. "This juggling witchcraft _with reverence cherish_" (King John, iii. 1). I have, however, read _nourish_, though I see no advantage in it. "Kings shall be thy nursing-fathers" may have been in the poet's mind. 'Good' is goodness, as _fair_ is fairness. * * * * * "How pale she looks, And of an earthly cold_ness_! Mark her eyes!" So Collier's folio also reads. Mr. Staunton proposes _Her hand_ for 'And,' or 'And _feels_.' * * * * * "Say to _him_ his long trouble now is passing Out of the world." ACT V. SC. 1. "Have broken with the King; who hath so far Given ear to our complaint, _that_ of his great grace And princely care--foreseeing those fell mischiefs, Our reasons laid before him--_he_ hath commanded." * * * * * "The good I stand on is my truth and honesty." For 'good' Johnson and Collier's folio read _ground_, which may be right. * * * * * SC. 2. "'Mong boys _and_ grooms and lackeys." * * * * * "In our own natures frail and capable Of our flesh." For 'capable' Malone read 'incapable.' Perhaps the right word would be _culpable_, and it and 'frail' should be transposed, as 'frailty' follows. * * * * * "A man that more detests, more stirs against." For 'stirs' I read _strives_, as Shakespeare nowhere uses 'stirs' in conjunction with 'against.' * * * * * "And in my presence, They are too thin and base to hide offences." For 'base' Malone read _bare_, which may be right. * * * * * SC. 3. "_Be't_ he or she, cuckold or cuckold-maker." * * * * * "He stands there like a mortar-piece to blow us _up_." * * * * * SC. 4. "And you_r_ good brethren I am much beholding." TRAGEDIES. ROMEO AND JULIET. ACT I. SC. 1. "Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the same." This is the reading of all the old editions; but the correction of Theobald, _sun_ for 'same,' is so obvious and so natural that I had made it long before I was aware I had been anticipated. * * * * * "Why, _gentle cousin_, such is love's transgression."