* * * * * "The holding every man shall bear as loud As his strong sides can volley." 'Bear' is, as usual, one of Theobald's excellent corrections for 'beat' of the folio; 'holding' is burthen. ACT III. SC. 1. "Than gain which darkens him * * *" * * * * * "Without the which a soldier and his sword Grants scarce distinction." For 'Grants' we might read _Gains_. * * * * * SC. 2. "_Ever_ think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho!" * * * * * "This is to horse. Adieu, _most_ noble Agrippa." * * * * * "Be the ram to batter. The fortress of it _down_; for better might we," etc. * * * * * "Believe it till I weep too." Theobald, who is always followed, read _wept_, but, it seems to me, from not understanding the passage: what is meant is, accept this explanation till you see _me_ weep from pure feeling, which Antony was no more capable of doing than I am. * * * * * SC. 3. "This creature's no such thing.--_No_, nothing, madame." * * * * * SC. 4. "Shall stain your brother." The critics give examples of 'stain' in the sense of eclipse, throw into the shade. * * * * * SC. 5. "Then would thou hadst a pair of chaps, no more." The critics properly read _world_ and _hast_. * * * * * "They'll grind _the one_ the other." It is strange that _the one_, required both by sense and metre, was first added by Johnson. * * * * * SC. 6. "Being an abstract 'tween his lust and him." For 'abstract,' which makes no sense, Warburton read _obstruct_, which has been generally adopted; but as this subst. occurs nowhere else, I prefer to read _obstruction_. * * * * * "Up to a whore; who now are levying." As no good sense has been made of 'who,' I read _they_. * * * * * "King Malchus of Arabia, _the_ King of Pont." It is, however, I think, probable that a proper name has been lost. * * * * * "Till we perceived both how you were wrong-led." For 'wrong-led' Collier's folio reads well _wronged_. * * * * * "And the high gods To do you justice make his ministers." I would read _God_. * * * * * SC. 7. "And as the president of my kingdom will _I_." * * * * * "I have sixty sails, Cæsar none better _hath_." * * * * * SC. 8. "Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt."