"The fellow Loaden with irons wiser than the judge." For 'fellow' Johnson read _felon_, which I adopt. * * * * * "Why, _I_ say, my lords, he has done fair service." This is the reading of the 2nd folio. * * * * * "He has made too much plenty with him_self_." * * * * * "If there were no _other_ foes, this were enough." * * * * * "Only in bone, that none may look _up_on you." For 'in bone,' which is not very clear, Mr. Staunton would read _at home_. * * * * * "Pours into captain's wounds?--_Ha!_ banishment!" * * * * * SC. 6. "The swallow follows not summer more willing_ly_." * * * * * "Who stuck and spangled _by_ you with flatteries." Hanmer reads 'with you_r_ flatteries.' ACT IV. SC. 1. "Thy mistress is o' the brothel." I read without hesitation '_at_ the brothel.' The _t_ in _at_ was not sounded. See Introd. p. 52. * * * * * "Pluck the lin'd crutch from thy old limping sire." In its ordinary sense, and I know no other, 'lined' cannot be applied to a crutch. I therefore read _lean'd_, with an ellipsis, in the usual manner, of _on_, which would give a tolerable sense. See Tr. and Cr. v. 3. "Rise mov'd, and _gravely leaning on one crutch_, Lift the other like a sceptre." Fletch. Beggar's Bush, ii. 1. * * * * * "And yet confusion live!" I prefer _let_; Hanmer did the same. * * * * * SC. 2. "As we do turn our backs From our companion thrown into his grave, So his familiars to his buried fortunes ... Slink all away, leave their false vows with him," etc. If we read _Upon_ or _On_ for 'From,' and point as I have done, all seems simple enough. M. Mason ingeniously transposed 'From' and 'to.' After all, however, 'From' may have been the poet's word. * * * * * "And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck." A 'dying deck' is an odd expression; _sinking_ would apparently make better sense. Yet _dying bed_, i.e. death-bed, may still be heard. * * * * * "Who would be so mock'd with glory? or to live But in a dream of friendship, _and survive_ To have his pomp and all what state comprehends But only painted, like his varnish'd friends?" I have ventured on these corrections, as this part of the speech is in rime. The folio reads 'com_pounds_.' Collier's folio and Sidney Walker also propose _comprehends_. For 'or to live' we might read 'or _would_ live.' See Temp. iii. 1. * * * * * "I'll follow and enquire him out, _and then_."