"Mais ceux qui de la cour ont un plus long usage, Sur les yeux de César composent leur visage." Racine, Britan. v. 5. * * * * * "To his mistress, For whom he now is banish'd ... her own price." * * * * * SC. 2. "My residence at Rome'_s_ at one Philario's." * * * * * "And sear up my embracements from a next With bonds of death." I approve of Singer's _seal_; there is no agreement between 'sear,' _i.e._ burn, and 'bonds.' * * * * * "Remain thou there While sense can keep it on." I cannot avoid agreeing with those who read _thee_ for 'it.' * * * * * "That should'st repair my youth, thou heapest A year's age on me." Metre requires a foot in the first line. Capell added _instead_. I prefer _many_, which gives sense to 'A year's age.' * * * * * "_I_ pray you speak with me. You shall at least." * * * * * SC. 3. "It went out o' the backside _o'_ the town." * * * * * SC. 4. "'Twere a paper lost, As offer'd mercy is.... What was the last That he spake to thee?" It is only thus that I can give sense to the second line. * * * * * "_O_ senseless linen, happier therein than I!" * * * * * "As he could make me with his eye or ear Distinguish him from others." I read _the_, which is so often confounded with 'his.' Warburton, who is generally followed, read _this_. * * * * * SC. 5. "A beggar without less quality." Rowe read _more_, which alone gives sense. * * * * * "Have confounded one the other or have fallen both." We should apparently read here _and_ for 'or.' * * * * * "If I offend _not_ to say it is mended." All agree in adding _not_, which is not in the folio. * * * * * "I could but believe she excelled many." The folio has _not_ for 'but'; the correction is Heath's. * * * * * "Or if there were wealth enough for the purchase, or merit." I think the editors right in omitting the first 'or.' * * * * * SC. 6. "But though slow, deadly.--I wonder, doctor, _that_." * * * * * "Think on my words.--And _so_ shall do." * * * * * SC. 7. "As my two brothers, happy!" etc. Mr. Staunton arranges this passage thus, which is most certainly an improvement (See on Tr. and Cr. iii. 3):--