SC. 1. "It cannot hold; no reason Can sound his state in safety." If 'sound' be the right word, it must be a nautical metaphor. Editors in general read _found_. * * * * * "Plays in the right hand thus;--but tell him _that_." * * * * * "Ay go, sir.--Take the bonds along with you, And have the dates in. Come...." This is the reading of the folio, and is perfectly intelligible; perhaps we should read 'in _mind_.' Editors in general follow Theobald in reading for 'Come' _compt_. * * * * * SC. 2. "Never mind Was to be so unwise, to be so kind." Here 'to be' is being. See Introd. p. 70. * * * * * "What shall be done? He will not hear till _he_ feel." * * * * * "He humbly prays your speedy payment _of_." * * * * * "With clamorous demands of [debt] broken bonds." I think 'debt' was introduced from the next line. Malone reads '_date_-broken.' * * * * * "Look you, here comes my master's page." For 'master's,' both here, and in the following speech, Malone very properly read '_mistress'_.' See on Tam. of Shr. i. 2. * * * * * "I have retired me to a wasteful cock." By 'cock' here can only be meant a cockloft, and perhaps, as it is at the end of the line, _loft_ may have been effaced. See Introd. p. 58. * * * * * "This night englutted! Who is not _Lord_ Timon's?" * * * * * "Canst thou the conscience lack To think I shall lack friends?" As to lack conscience is to be unconscionable, and would sound here rather ironically, I think 'lack' has been suggested by the following line for _have_, or some other word. * * * * * "Men and men's fortunes could I _as_ frankly use." * * * * * "And in some sort these wants of mine are crown'd." Here also 'crown'd' seems to occupy the place of some other word. * * * * * "_I_ pr'ythee, man, look cheerly; these old fellows." * * * * * "I would I could not [think it]. That thought is bounty's foe." Several of the editors concur in this proper omission. ACT III. SC. 1. "This slave Unto his honour has my lord's meat in him."