The metre would require '_O_ Leonatus!' but as "What false Italian" follows, it might be better to read 'monster's her accuse_r_,' the _r_ having been lost as in Macb. ii. 1. See on Ant. and Cleop. iv. 10. * * * * * "Could not be so cruel to me as you, O the dearest of creatures, would even renew me with your eyes." Of this, as far as I can perceive, no sense has been or ever can be made. We should therefore read, with Pope, _but_ for 'as,' which may have been suggested by the preceding 'so'; or 'would _not_ even,' with Malone. * * * * * "I see before me, man; nor here, nor here, Nor what ensues; but have a fog in them." I think we should read _there_ for the second 'here,' and perhaps _they_ for 'but,' or '_they_ have.' * * * * * SC. 3. "Richer than doing nothing for a baub_le_." The folio has _babe_, which Rowe judiciously corrected as it is here given. In the MS. 'bauble' was probably spelt _bable_ or, it may be, _babel_; and the latter part may have been effaced. Hanmer read _bribe_; Johnson and Singer _brabe_. * * * * * "Such gain the cap of him that makes 'em fine." For ''em' the folio has _him_. If we retain the reading of the folio, we must read 'gains.' 'Cap' is salutation. * * * * * "They took thee for their mother And every day do honour to her grave." For 'her' we should read of course _thy_. * * * * * SC. 4. "Ne'er long'd my mother so To see me first, as I have now ... Pisanio!" * * * * * "And thou _too_, Posthumus, that didst set up." Posthumus is _always_ to be accented on the first syllable. It is usual to read '_thou_ that'; but my reading I think more natural. * * * * * "I'll wake mine eye-balls first.--Whërefore then?" Hanmer read '_blind_ first'; I prefer _make_, with a (...); Collier's folio has _crack_. * * * * * "Though peril to my modesty, not death on't I would adventure." We should perhaps, with Johnson, read _Through_. * * * * * "There's more to be consider'd, but we'll even All that good time will give us." A verb seems lost at the end of the first line. Its place may have been taken by 'even,' or we might simply add _do_. * * * * * SC. 5. "Madam, all joy befall your grace and you." I think Capell and Steevens were right in reading 'and you_rs_.' The two last letters had probably been effaced. * * * * * "She looks us like A thing more made of malice than of duty." I think we should insert _on_, _at_, or _to_ after 'look.' The 2nd folio read '_as_ like.'