* * * * * "The courage of a woman; less noble-mind_ed_." It is evident that the final syllable had been effaced. * * * * * SC. 13. "His death's upon him, but _he is_ not dead." * * * * * "Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in! darkling stand _on_." * * * * * "No more, but e'en a woman." The folio has _in_ for 'e'en'; the correction is Johnson's. ACT V. SC. 1. "Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks _us by_ The pauses that he makes." I adopt Malone's excellent addition, which has everything in its favour. * * * * * "His taints and honours Wag'd equal with him." We should perhaps read, as has been proposed, _Weigh'd_ for 'Wag'd.' * * * * * "For Cæsar cannot live To be ungentle." 'Live' is the correction of Southern and Pope of _leave_ in the folio. 'To be' is being. See Introd. p. 70. * * * * * SC. 2. "Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Cæsar's." With Mr. Dyce I would read _dug_, the correction of Warburton. _Of_ may have been lost in the beginning of the last line. Still 'dung' may be right, denoting earth; so I have retained it in my Edition. * * * * * "He gives me so much of my own, as I Will kneel to him in thanks _for_." For 'as' Mason would read _and_. * * * * * "If idle talk will once be necessary." Hanmer read '_ac_cessary'; but perhaps without need. * * * * * "And he hath sent _me_ for thee." * * * * * "There was no winter in it; an autumn 'twas." So Theobald; the folio has _Antony_. * * * * * "His delights Were dolphin-like; they showed his back above The element they lived in." For 'his' we should read _their_ or _the_. * * * * * "By the rebound of yours; a grief that suites My very heart at root." 'Suites' is _shoots_ (see on L. L. L. iv. 3). Some read _smites_. * * * * * "To one so meek, that my own servant should," etc. The poet may have written _weak_. * * * * * "With one that I have bred. The gods! it smites me." For 'The' we should read _Ye_, as in Cor. i. 6. * * * * * "Of eyes again so royal! your crown's away; I'll mend it, and then play...." Pope most properly read _awry_ for 'away,' which was caused probably by the rime with play. KING LEAR. ACT I. SC. 1. "What shall Cordelia do? love and be silent." For 'do' the folio reads _speak_.