So all the 4tos--the place is not in the folio. Editors most properly read _him_ for 'me.' MACBETH. ACT I. SC. 1. "_1 W._ I come, Graymalkin.--_2 W._ Paddock calls.--_3 W._ Anon." I adopt this arrangement of Mr. Hunter's instead of that of the folio, usually followed. * * * * * SC. 2. "Say to the King the knowledge of the broil." Here 'the' is evidently an error for _thy_. * * * * * "Doubtful it stood * * *" We might add, _For the two armies were_. * * * * * "And Fortune on his damned quarry smiling." Holinshed, treating of this very matter, says, "to assist him in that rebellious _quarrel_." Hence the usual correction of _quarrel_ for 'quarry' seems to be justified. In the old writers _quarrel_ in the sense of cause, party, is frequent. It was in ordinary use at that time, alike in French and English. * * * * * "Like Valour's minion, carv'd out his passage, Till he fac'd the slave * * *" We might add, _with Vengeance at his side_. * * * * * "Shipwrecking storms, and direful thunders _break_." So Pope, from _breaking_ of the 2nd folio. "Like _tempests Broke_ from the raging North." Fletch. Hum. Lieut. i. 1. * * * * * "This oür captains, Macbeth and Banquo?--Yes." * * * * * "As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks, so they." We might, but not so well perhaps, read 'o'ercharg'd' (see on M. N. D. ii. 1). 'They so,' though it makes a rime, would give energy. * * * * * "Who comes here _now_?--The worthy thane of Rosse." * * * * * "So should he look that seems to speak great things." Collier's folio, I think rightly, reads _comes_ for 'seems' (see on All's Well, ii. 3). We can hardly take 'to speak' in the sense of about to speak. * * * * * "From Fife, great king, where the Norweyan banners _Did_ flout the air, and fan our people cold. Norway himself with terrible numbers _there_." Both sense and metre require _Did_. The battle was over, and the enemy defeated. * * * * * SC. 3. "As thick as tale Came post with post," etc. Though 'tale' makes good sense, it might be better to read, with Rowe, _hail_, of which Mr. Dyce gives many examples. _Came_ is Rowe's correction for 'Can' of the folio. * * * * * "Promis'd no less to them?--That trusted home." Beyond question we should read, with Malone, _thrusted_. * * * * * "Give _me_ your favour; my dull brain was wrought." * * * * *