It was the opinion of the sagacious Tyrwhitt that 'If not' is a mere insertion of the printer's, suggested by 'Is not' in the preceding line. I have, however, little doubt but it should be, as I have printed it, "_Is it_ not a usuring kindness?" * * * * * "Exchange _it_ for this one wish, that you had power." ACT V. SC. 1. "To load our purposes, with what they travel for." Collier's folio reads _purses_. In that case 'they' should be _we_. * * * * * "When the day serves, before black-corner'd night." For 'corner'd' some read _coned_, _crowned_, _cover'd_. Singer and Dyce _curtain'd_. I have given _cover'd_. * * * * * "Know his gross patchery, love him, feed him, _and_." * * * * * "You have worke_d_ for me, there is payment. Hence!" Malone, who is usually followed, reads '_done_ work.' * * * * * SC. 2. "To stop affliction let him take his haste." Perhaps 'take' should be _make_. * * * * * SC. 5. "On those that are revenges; crimes like lands Are not inherited." * * * * * "But shall be remedied to your public laws." For 'remedied' Singer read _remitted_. I adopt _render'd_, the reading of M. Mason. CORIOLANUS. ACT I. SC. 1. _2 Cit._ "Our business is not unknown to the Senate." So it stands in the folio here and in the subsequent speeches; but as Malone rightly saw, it should be _1 Cit._ * * * * * "But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture To scale it a little more." All attempts to make sense of 'scale' having been most complete failures, it only remains to read, with Theobald, _stale_. "I'll not _stale_ the jest By my relation." Massinger, Unnat. Comb. iv. 2. * * * * * "Our disgrace with a tale. But an't please you deliver _it_." * * * * * "Even to the court _of_ the heart, to the seat of the brain." So perhaps it were better to read. * * * * * "With every minutes you do change a mind." The _your_, for 'a,' of Collier's folio seems preferable. * * * * * "Of their own choice. One's Junius Brutus, _another_." * * * * * "The present wars devour him! He is grown Too proud to be so valiant." Such also is the punctuation of Warburton. 'To be' to be _in being_. See Introd. p. 70. * * * * * SC. 2. "What ever have been thought on in this state." We should either read _hath_ for 'have,' or _we_ for 'been.' * * * * * SC. 3. "At Grecian sword contenning ..."