* * * * * SC. 3. "The greater scorns the lesser; not _even that_ nature, To which all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune But by contempt of nature. Raise me this beggar, And deny't that lord, the senator shall bear Contempt hereditary, the beggar native honour. It is the pasture lards the rother's sides, The want that makes him lean." The excellent correction of 'rother' for _brother_ of the folio is due to Mr. Singer, and to Collier's folio. _Rother_-(_hryther_ A.S.) _beast_ is _juvencus_; there was a _rother_-market in Stratford. "A thousand herds of _rother_-beasts he in his field did keep." Golding, Ovid. p. 52. For 'lean' the folio has _leave_, an evident misprint. With respect to the addition to the first line, it is demanded by the metre, and the meaning is that even a diseased beggar, a Lazarus as it were, would have to change his nature to be able to bear prosperity with equanimity. * * * * * "Black, white; foul, fair; wrong, right; * * *" Perhaps the lost words may have been _guilt, innocence_, or _guilty, innocent_. * * * * * "Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads." Hanmer read '_sick_ men's,' alluding to a practice of hired nurses. * * * * * "This, _this_, it is That makes the wappen'd widow wed again." For 'wappen'd' Singer read _wapper'd_, worn out, debilitated, of the use of which word he gives examples. * * * * * "With man's blood paint the ground gules, gules; _for if_." A foot has certainly been lost. Sense seems to require this addition. * * * * * "_For_ that by killing Of villains thou wast born to conquer my country." * * * * * "For those milk-paps That through the window barne bore at men's eyes, Are not within the leaf of pity writ, But set 'em down horrible traitors. Spare not the babe." This is a difficult passage. 'Milk-paps' seems to mean tender young maidens, and editors are probably right in reading _bars_ for 'barne.' The 'bars,' as Mr. Staunton observes, seem to mean the cross-lacing on the bosom, still to be seen in Switzerland. We should perhaps omit ''em,' not 'But,' as the editors do, in the last line. * * * * * "And be no turn-coats. Yet may your pains six months _thence_." * * * * * "Nor sound his quillets shrilly; hoar the flamen." Singer adopts Upton's reading of _hoarse_ for 'hoar'; but though it would agree with what follows, I know of no such verb. We might read '_make_ hoar,' or '_make_ hoar_se_.' * * * * *