Theobald read justly _lackeying_. I read _fro_ for 'back.' * * * * * "Both what by sea and land I shall be able To 'front the present time." I read '_With_ what both.' * * * * * "To let me be partaker of." * * * * * SC. 5. "For so he calls me--Now I feed myself With most delicious poison--thinks on me," etc. It is thus I would give force to the passage. The appeal to those present is feeble. * * * * * "And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed." There can be no doubt that 'arm-gaunt' is a printer's blunder. The best correction seems to be that of Boaden and myself, _arrogant_; we might also read _ardent_, as we have "a hot and fiery steed" (Rich. II. v. 2); or _angry_, as in F. Q. i. 1, 1. I had, like M. Mason, conjectured _termagant_; but that term is never applied to an animal. In favour of _arrogant_, Singer quoted from the Arauco Domado of Lope de Vega "Y el _cavallo arrogante_, en que subido El hombre parecia Monstruosa fiera que seis pies tenia." In Spanish, I may observe, _caballo arrogante_ is simply a gallant, spirited horse. See Calderon, La Niña de Gomez Arias. II. There is not, as far as I know, any instance of the use of _arrogant_ in this sense in English; and it would be a curious circumstance if Shakespeare had learned the Spanish sense of it. * * * * * ACT II. SC. 1. "Salt Cleopatra, soften thy wand lip." I see no sense in in 'wand.' Some editors read _wan'd_, taking perhaps the image from the moon. I have read _wanton_, in the sense of soft, yielding like "the wanton rushes" (1 H. IV. iii. 1), "the wanton air" (L. L. L. iv. 3), which would also suit the metre better. I, however, strongly suspect that the poet's word may have been _tann'd_, spelt of course _tand_, so that a printer's error was very obvious. She is more than once called _gypsy_; she has "a _tawny_ front" (i. 1); and she says of herself (i. 5.) that she is "with Phoebus' amorous kisses _black_." In Son. cxv. we have "_tan_ sacred beauty;" and in Son. lxii., "But when my glass shows me myself indeed, Beated and chopp'd with _tann'd_ antiquity." 'Salt' is wanton, lascivious; perhaps from _salax_. * * * * * SC. 2. "I should do thus.--Welcome to Rome.--_I_ thank you." * * * * * "Your wife and brother Made wars upon me, and their contestation Was theme for you." I am not satisfied with this passage. Perhaps for 'their' and 'you' we should read _your_ and _them_, as I have done. * * * * * "If you'll patch a quarrel. As matter whole you have _not_ to make it with." The negative was properly inserted by Rowe. * * * * *