"Which on more view of many--mine being one, May stand in number, though in reckoning none" ... This is the reading of both 4tos and folio, except 4to of 1597, which reads "_Such amongst_." I should feel inclined to read "Such _as on_ view." By 'more' must be meant more extensive. The aposiopesis, so suited to the hasty, impetuous character of the speaker, makes all clear. * * * * * "But in that crystal scales, let there be weighed Your lady's love against some other maid." This is very oddly expressed; for it was the lady herself, not her love, that was to be weighed. Theobald proposed _lady-love_; but I doubt if that phrase was then in use. I read '_lady and love_,' the & of the MS. having been made s by the printer, as it became _t_ in 'meant' for 'mean _and_' in All's Well, iv. 3. * * * * * SC. 4. "Oh! then, I see, Queen Mab has been with you. _Ben._ Queen Mab! What's she? _Mer._ She is the fairies' midwife, etc." I think it best to read thus with 4to, 1597, adding _Mer._ before 'She is.' Benvolio's question is evidently wanted. * * * * * "Of healths five fathom deep." It seems almost incredible that such a glaring absurdity as this should have escaped a long succession of critics; and yet I am not aware that any have noticed it. What is a _health_? a wish, a moral idea, and how could that be 'five fathom deep'? or be an object of terror to a soldier? It may be said that it is the cup that is meant, but of this we have no instance; and even if we had, Master Silence, who was a man of peace, sings-- "Fill the cup and let it come; I'll pledge you a mile to the bottóm." So, as we may see, he was not, and why should a soldier be, afraid of it? Malone quotes from Westward Hoe, 1607, a passage in which we have drinking _fathom deep_, and it is apparently drinking healths; but there is nothing about terror in it, and it seems, no unusual circumstance, to have arisen from the present line. In fine, something must have been named that was a real object of terror to a soldier; and I know no word so likely to have been used as _trenches_, which might easily have been mistaken for 'healths.' In that case the metric accent falling on 'five' would augment the terror. * * * * * "This is she _that_." * * * * * SC. 5. "His son was but a ward two years ago.-- Good youths, i' faith!--Oh! youth's a jolly thing." The last line is only found in 4to 1597. It is so natural and so pleasing, that I could not refrain from adopting it. * * * * * "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of Night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear." This is the reading of both 4tos and folio; yet editors have adopted the far inferior reading of the 2nd folio '_Her beauty_ hangs!' We have the same idea in