"At a poor man's house; he used me _very_ kindly." * * * * * SC. 10. "Where I find him, were it At home, upon my brother's guard, even there, Against the hospitable canon, would I Wash my fierce hand in his heart." With the fullest conviction I read for 'brother's guard' _household hearth_; for that was the very place where he _did_ find him. "He got him up straight to the _chimney hearth_, and sate him down" (North's Plutarch, p. 232). Besides, we never hear that Aufidius had a brother; and it should be _under_, not _upon_, the guard; a man is, or stands, on his own not on another's guard. In Rich. II. iv. 1 we have "under his _household roof_;" and _household hearth_ occurs in Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming, iii. 17. ACT II. SC. 1. "What harm can your beesome conspectuities glean out of this character?" Regarding 'beesome' as a corruption, the editors have all adopted Theobald's reading, _bisson_, which occurs in Hamlet (ii. 2) in the sense of blinding. Mr. Singer, however, quotes from Huloet's Dictionary "Blynde or _Beasom_borne, cæcigenus," which proves the text to be right. * * * * * "_For_ these in honour follows Coriolanus." * * * * * "I have lived To see inherited my very wishes, And the buildings of my fancy * * *" We might supply _turn'd to sense_. * * * * * "Whiles she chats _of_ him. The kitchen malkin pins." * * * * * "At some time when his soaring influence Shall teach the people." There is perhaps an aposiopesis here; otherwise I should incline to read _touch_, as Mr. Knight and Collier's folio also read. * * * * * "The blind to hear him speak. Matrons flung _their_ gloves." * * * * * SC. 2. "We met here, both to thank and to remember." Editors in general read _meet_. I read 'We _are_ met.' * * * * * "We shall be blest to do, if he remember." Collier's folio read _prest_, i.e. ready; but no change is needed. "And then _we shall be bless'd_ To do your pleasure" (King John iii. 1). It is the same as _happy_ of the present day. * * * * * "Alone he entered The mortal gate of the city, which he painted With shunless destiny." I do not see the meaning of 'painted' here. Perhaps the right word is _parted_, i.e. burst open, as it had been closed on him, i. 5. In Rom. and Jul. ii. 5 we have the same change of _ar_ to _ain_. * * * * * SC. 3. "Some brown, some black, some auburn." For 'auburn' the folio has _abraham_. * * * * * "The price _of it_ is to ask it kindly.--Kindly?"