"Thou liest thou shag-ear'd villain." Both Singer and Dyce read _hair'd_, and I think rightly. _Hair_ was originally pronounced _hear_, under which form it occurs in two of Shakespeare's older plays; so _shag-heared_ and 'shag-eared' would sound exactly alike. * * * * * SC. 3. "You may deserve of him, and wisdom _'twere_." A syllable has plainly been lost. For 'deserve,' the correction of Theobald, the folio has _discern_. * * * * * "I would not be the villain that thou think'st _me_." * * * * * "_Of aid_ of goodly thousands; but for all this." The foot which is wanting may be thus supplied. * * * * * "Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty." For 'Convey,' which hardly makes sense, Singer reads _Enjoy_. * * * * * "Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth." As it may be doubted if there is such a verb as 'Uproar,' and as it makes little sense, I would read _Uproot_ or _Uptear_. * * * * * "_Then_ Heaven forgive him too.--This time goes manly." This is the reading of the folio; but editors read _tune_ for 'time.' The terms were synonymous. See Gifford on Massinger's Roman Actor, ii. 1. "About him fairies, sing a scornful rime, And, as you trip, still pinch him to your _time_." Mer. Wives, v. 5. ACT V. Sc. 1. "Aye, but their sense are shut." Editors read _is_ for 'are,' but I rather think we should read 'senses.' Yet 'sense' may be a collective. Introd. p. 70. * * * * * SC. 3. "Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now." Percy and Collier's folio read _chair_ for 'cheer.' This may be right. * * * * * "My way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf." For 'way' Johnson proposed _May_, and this reading has been generally adopted; but there is no need of change. * * * * * "That keep her from her rest.--Cure _her_ of that." The last _her_ was supplied by 2nd folio. See Introd. p. 55. * * * * * "Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff." In the usual way, 'stuff' seems to have arisen from 'stuff'd.' I read _matter_. "Shall expel This something settled _matter_ in his heart." Ham. iii. 2. * * * * * "What rhubarb, cymè, or what purgative drug." For 'cymè,' an uncommon word, Rowe read _senna_, and he has been universally followed. Yet it may not be the right word. * * * * *