"In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the others." Mr. Singer read _ether_ for 'others.' * * * * * "The enterprise is sick." Hanmer read _Then_ for 'the.' See Introd. p. 65. * * * * * "This chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking." I have added in my Edition _of the common weal_; but we might also read _as his consequence_, which I think better. * * * * * "Breaks scurril jests * * * *" I would add _on thee and all of us_. * * * * * "To weaken _us_ and discredit our exposure." * * * * * "To overbulk us all.--Well, and how _then_?" * * * * * "And in the publication make no strain." Perhaps we should read _doubt_ for 'strain.' * * * * * "And think, perchance, they'll sell; if _they do_ not." * * * * * "What glory our Achilles shares from Hector, Were he not proud, we all should share with him." We should read _wins_ or _gains_ for 'shares.' See Introd. p. 64. It is remarkable that for the 'share' of the second line the folio reads _wear_, thus correcting the error of the 4tos. ACT II. SC. 1. "When Achilles' brach bids me." 'Brach' is Rowe's correction; the originals have _brooch_, which--as being an ornament hung round the neck--may be right. See Win. Tale, i. 2. * * * * * SC. 2. "Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes stale the Morning'_s_." So the folio reads, followed by Singer and Dyce; the 4tos read _pale_ for 'stale'--a reading I incline to prefer. * * * * * "As you must needs; for you all cried--Go, Go." * * * * * "The issue of your proper wisdoms rate." Perhaps some word, such as _thus_ or _low_, has been lost after 'rate,' or we should read '_under_rate.' * * * * * "I have a roisting challenge sent amongst." As I have not met with the verb 'roist' anywhere else, I suspect that the poet may have written _roistering_, and the transcriber or printer have omitted a syllable, as in Meas. for Meas. iv. 2. * * * * * "Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled eld." 'Eld' is an excellent correction of Ritson's; the 4tos read _elders_; the folio _old_. * * * * * SC. 3. "Which short-arm'd Ignorance itself." Mr. Dyce reads 'short-_ai_m'd. * * * * * "Their massy irons _out_, and cutting the web." The metre requires this natural addition. * * * * * "He sent _back_ our messengers, and we lay by Our appertainments, visiting of him."