This line, which is superfluous, is in all the old editions. See on iii. 3. * * * * * SC. 3. "Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee." This is the reading of the 4to 1597; the other editions read, "Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, here's drink. I drink to thee." * * * * * SC. 4. "_Nurse._ Go, go, you cotquean, go." Singer was most certainly right in giving this speech to _Lady Cap._; for the Nurse was hardly present. * * * * * SC. 5. "Dead art thou, _dead_--alack! my child is dead." In this I find I had been as usual preceded by Theobald. * * * * * "Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not." All the old editions read _care_. Theobald made the correction. * * * * * "For though some nature bids us all lament." For 'some' the 2nd folio reads _fond_. * * * * * "Faith, we may put our pipes up and be gone." The originals read 'put up.' ACT V. SC. 1. "If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep." The 4to 1527 reads thus; the others and the folio '_truth_ of sleep,' in which I can see no sense, while the former seems to be justified by "Full many a glorious morning have I seen _Flatter_ the mountain-tops with sovereign _eye_." Son. xxxiii. In both places _flatter_ seems to mean cheer, enliven. 'Eye' is, as in "eye of green" (Temp. ii. 1), look, glance; "Yon grey is not the Morning's eye" (iii. 5). * * * * * "Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes." Pope read _stareth_, after Otway; rightly, I think. * * * * * SC. 3. "Under yond' yew-trees lay thee all along." The 4to 1597 reads 'Under _this_ yew-tree'; the others 'Under yond' _young_ trees. Further on they all read 'As I did sleep under this _young_ tree here.' There can be little doubt that _yew_ was the poet's word; it is not so easy to decide between _tree_ and _trees_; but I prefer the former. * * * * * "And in despite I'll cram thee with more food." Perhaps the poet's word was _requite_. * * * * * "Why art thou yet so fair? I will believe, Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous?" We have here plainly two various readings got in by mistake. (See above, iii. 3.) I agree with those who reject the first. * * * * * "This is thy sheath; there rest and let me die." The reading 'rest,' for _rust_ of the editions, is deduced from 4to 1597. * * * * * "What fear is this which startles in _our_ ears." So I read with Johnson for _your_. * * * * * "Look and thou shalt see." 'Look _here_' would have more melody.