As this is not sense it requires emendation, and the simplest, I think, is _dishonour_ for 'his honour.' I had also conjectured _this hour_, in which I had been anticipated. Collier's folio reads _humour_. Mr. Dyce thinks the error is in 'slave,' for which he reads _scandal_, quoting "This _scandal_ of his blood" (R. II. i. 1). "Thou _slander_ of thy heavy mother's womb" (R. III. i. 3). It must be observed that neither _slave_ nor _scandal_ is followed by _unto_ elsewhere in Shakespeare. * * * * * "_In him_ when he is turned to poison? Oh, may." * * * * * SC. 2. "Yet had he mistook him and sent to me." I do not see the meaning of 'mistook' here, and I have no probable emendation to offer. For 'so many talents' here and elsewhere in this scene some read '_fifty_ talents.' * * * * * "The more beast _I_, I say." * * * * * "And just of the same piece Is every flatterer's sport." Theobald's reading, _spirit_ for 'sport,' should be received. * * * * * "And kept his credit, with his purse, _upright_." * * * * * "He does deny him, in respect of his _want_." It is quite plain that this or some such word was effaced. * * * * * SC. 3. "Has Lucullus and Ventidius denied him? And does he send to me? Three ... humph! It shows But little love or judgement in him. Must I Be his last refuge? His friends, like physicians, Thrice give him over." For 'Thrice,' the correction of Johnson, the folio reads _Thrive_, which Steevens and Malone retain. It also reads 'Ventidius and Lucullus.' * * * * * "I _may_ be thought a fool." The 2nd folio added _I_; the _may_ seems also necessary. * * * * * "Save the gods only. Now his friends are dead." So also Hanmer; the folio has 'only the gods.' * * * * * SC. 4. "We cannot take this for _an_ answer, sir." * * * * * "Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius, Ullorxa, all." The barbarous term 'Ullorxa' is, I suspect, a mere corruption of _all on 'em_. How it _has_ perplexed the critics! * * * * * SC. 5. "He did behave his anger, ere 'twas spent." 'Behave' is Warburton's reading for 'behove' of the folio. It is generally followed, but I am dubious of it. Jackson and Singer have proposed _behood_. * * * * * "And not endure all threats? sleep upon't." With Hanmer, I read threat_nings_, for the sake of the metre. * * * * * "Without repugnancy? if there be _then_." Hanmer read '_But_ if.' * * * * *