* * * * * "Why in this woolvish tongue should I stand here." As, in Othello (i. 1), the folio reads "_tongued_ consuls" for "_toged_ consuls" of the 4to, editors here properly read _toge_ for 'tongue'; the 2nd folio has _gown_. As 'woolvish' offers very little sense, we should, with Collier's folio, read _woolless_; for it has been already (ii. 1) termed "the _napless_ vesture of humility." * * * * * "I have seen and heard of; for your voices _I_ Have done many things, some less, some more. Your voices." * * * * * "That our best water brought by conduits hither, And nobly nam'd so, twïce being Censor." That a line has been lost here is beyond doubt. Pope, who is generally followed, added, "And Censorinus, darling of the people." But as the words in North's Plutarch are "so surnamed because the people had chosen him censor twice," it might be better to read "_And Censorinus, he that was so nam'd_." ACT III. SC. 1. _Com._ "You are like to do such business." With Malone I read _Cor._, to whom it is better suited. The names are often given wrong in this play. * * * * * "Which we disdain'_d_ should tetter us." * * * * * "O good, but most unwise Patricians!" The folio reads 'O God!' the judicious alteration is Theobald's, as usual. See on Ham. ii. 2. * * * * * "They know the corn Was not our recompense, resting well assured They ne'er did service for 't." For 'our' Southern read _their_, which seems to have been the poet's word. * * * * * "Could never be the native Of our so frank donation." As I have never met with 'native' in the sense of origin, source, I think, and so did Mason, that the right word is _motive_. * * * * * "How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy." I do not think that the text is, in any place in these plays, more certainly correct than it is here; yet some late editors adopt without hesitation _bisson multitude_, the reading of Collier's folio. By 'bosom multiplied' the poet means the union or complex of the bosoms, _i.e._ hearts, affections, of the people. In his next speech Cor. uses in a similar manner "multitudinous tongue;" and in ii. 2 we meet "multiplying spawn." In Lear (v. 3) we have "the _common bosom_;" and in our poet's Lover's Complaint "That he did in the _general bosom_ reign." * * * * * "To jump a body with a dangerous physic." For 'Jump' Pope read _vamp_, Singer _imp_. 'Jump' is risk, hazard, and the verb seems, like so many others, to be here causative. * * * * * "Go call the people; in whose name _I_ myself." * * * * *