I do not well understand 'bare' here. Mason read _base_, which is not quite satisfactory. * * * * * "Pray you, go to him.--What should I do _there_?" * * * * * "Unheard, what then? * * * But as a discontented friend, grief-shot." I would supply _How, then, should I return?_ * * * * * "Good faith, I'll prove him. Speed how it will, I shall ere long have knowledge Of my success." This is also the punctuation of Delius. * * * * * "I tell you he does sit in gold." For 'in gold' we might read _a god_: "He sits 'mongst men, like a descended god" (Cymb. i. 7). But it may be his chair of state that is meant. * * * * * "What he would do He sent in writing after me; what he would not * * * * Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions." A line is lost between the two last lines. * * * * * SC. 2. "For I have ever verified my friends-- Of whom he's chief--with all the size that verity Would without lapsing suffer." As 'verified' would seem to have been suggested by the following 'verity,' we might read, with Hanmer, _magnified_, or perhaps repeat 'amplified.' * * * * * "Out of your gates with sighs." As 'your' seems utterly unsuitable here, we might read _our_ or _yon_. * * * * * SC. 3. "That, if you fail in our request, the blame May hang upon your hardness." Pope also saw that 'you' should be _we_. * * * * * SC. 4. "_For_ the plebeians have got your fellow-tribune." * * * * * SC. 5. "Holp to reap the fame Which he did end all his." For 'end' Rowe read _make_; Collier's folio _ear_; Singer, after a writer in Notes and Queries, reads _ear_ for 'reap,' and _reap_ for 'end.' I would read _inn_ for 'end.' "Give me leave to _inn_ the crop" (All's Well, i. 3). "All was _inned_ at last into the King's barn" (Bacon). * * * * * "Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli." I think Malone was right in reading _Volsces_, and I have followed him. Volscians is rarely a subst. in this play. CYMBELINE. ACT I. SC. 1. "Our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers Still seem as doth the king's." Tyrwhitt read 'king'; Coleridge _countenances_ for 'courtiers.' It is better to suppose a word effaced at the end of the second line; so I add _faces_. A few lines lower they are said to 'wear their faces to the bent of the kings looks.'