"As my two brothers, happy! Blessed be those, How mean soever, that have their honest wills, Which seasons comfort; but most miserable Is the desire that's glorious," etc. I regret that I did not recollect this correction when printing my Edition, as I should probably have adopted it. * * * * * "Change you, madam; The worthy Leonatus is in safety." This is the punctuation of the folio, which I have retained, with (;) for (:); the usual punctuation is (?) Imogen is agitated at the announcement, and to reassure her, Iachimo says--subjoining the reason--'Change you,' like _look you_, _hark you_, _soft you_. The interrogation, however, may be right. * * * * * "According as you value your trust Leonatus." Hanmer read _truest_. We might also read _trusty_. * * * * * "Which can distinguish The fiery orbs above and the twinn'd stones Upon the number'd beach." Theobald, I think, was right in reading '_un_number'd.' "The murmuring surge That on the _un_numbered idle pebbles chafes." Lear, iv. 6. The joining it with 'beach' seems an instance of the figure called Hypallage. The stones are called 'twinn'd' from their resemblance to each other. * * * * * "Beseech you, sir, desire my man's abode Where I did leave him. He is strange and peevish." I think 'desire' should be _enquire_. * * * * * "Join gripes with hands Made hard with hourly falsehood--_with_ falsehood as With labour--then by peeping in an eye Base and illustrious," etc. Some critics read 'by-peeping'; but then a verb is wanting. We might for 'by' read _be_, or, with Johnson, _lie_; but I rather suspect the poet's word was _bide_; for 'bide peeping' would be pronounced 'bi peeping,' and the printer went by his ear (see Introd. p. 52). A most unhappy conjecture, though adopted and greatly admired by Mr. Collier, is that of his folio '_bo_-peeping'; for there is no such verb. '_Illustrous_' may be the right word, but Rowe's '_un_lustrous' has been generally adopted. * * * * * "With diseased ventures That play with all infirmities for gold Which rottenness can lend nature." This supposes the diseases to be not in them, but in those who come to them, which seems contrary to the course of Iachimo's reasoning. Perhaps we should read _pay_ for 'play.' "In this sty, where since I came, Diseases have been sold, dearer than physic." Per. iv. 6. We might perhaps also make a transposition in the second line, and read "That play for gold," etc., _i.e._ stake their diseases against gold.