"Go to them; your considerate stone _am I_." * * * * * "Truths would be tales _only_, Where now half-tales be truths." Hanmer read '_but_ tales'; Steevens '_as_ tales'; Capell '_then_ be tales.' We might also read '_mere_ tales.' * * * * * "Or else he seeks us out.--Where lies he _now_?-- About the Mount Misenum.--What's his strength?-- By land great and increasing; but by sea He is an absolute master." I give 'By land' to Cæsar. See on As You Like it, ii. 1. * * * * * "In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue)." With Collier's folio I read _and_ for 'of.' See Final Note to Comus in my Milton. * * * * * "The silken tackle Swell with the touches of the flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office." 'Swell' (_sc._ with pride, _i.e._ are elate) no doubt makes good sense; but the words of North's Plutarch are "Others tending the tackle and ropes of the barge, out of which there came a wonderful sweet savour of perfumes, that perfumed the wharf's side." _Smell_, the reading of Collier's folio, is therefore probably right. In the last line 'the' should, I think, be _their_. * * * * * SC. 3. "Would I had never come from thence nor you _Come_ thither." * * * * * "I see it in my motion, have it not in my tongue." We should probably read _notion_, i.e. idea, mind. * * * * * "But near him thy angel Becomes a fear." Upton read _afear'd_, and, I think, rightly; a Fear was a source of terror, not an object of it. In the corresponding place of North's Plutarch the word is _afraid_. * * * * * SC. 4. "We shall, As I conceive the journey, be at Mount _Misenum_." * * * * * "Tawny-finn'd fishes." Theobald's correction of 'tawny-_fine_' of the folio. * * * * * "Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren." I adopt without hesitation the excellent correction of _Rain_ for 'Ram.' "Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear" (Tim. i. 1). "In measure rain thy joy" (Mer. of Ven. iii. 2). * * * * * SC. 5. "If Antony Be free and healthful, so tart a favour _suits_ not To trumpet such good tidings." We might also read, as is usually done, '_why_ so tart a favour?' * * * * * SC. 6. "Made _the_ all-honour'd honest Roman Brutus." The _the_ was properly inserted in the 2nd folio. * * * * * SC. 7. "The third part of the world, man? Seest _thou_ not?"