* * * * * "That will be given to the loud_est_ of noise we make." So I read, with preceding editors. * * * * * "I have not seen these two days.--Go, look after _him_." * * * * * "The low Posthumus, _she_ slanders so her judgement." * * * * * SC. 6. "When resty Sloth Finds the down-pillow hard." Singer quotes Bullokar's Expositor to show that 'resty' is idle, inert. Steevens proposed _restive_. * * * * * "Since Leonatus' false." That is 'Since Leonatus is,' to avoid cacophony. ACT IV. SC. 2. "Grow, Patience! And let the stinking elder, Grief, untwine His perishing root with the increasing vine!" The folio reads _patient_. I incline to read '_from_ with,' and _thy_ for 'the' in the last line. * * * * * "For defect of judgement Is oft the cause of fear." For 'defect' Theobald read _th' effect_, while Hanmer read _cure_ for 'cause.' I see no great need of change. * * * * * "Thou Divine nature how thyself thou blasonest." 'How' is Capell's correction for _thou_ of the folio. * * * * * "What does he mean? Since _the_ death of my dearest mother." * * * * * "To have turn'd my leaping-time into a crutch." I feel almost inclined to read 'leaping-_pole_,' which was of course in use then as now, as it was known to the ancients. * * * * * "With female fairies will his tomb be haunted And worms will not come to thee." I agree with Steevens in reading _him_ for 'thee.' * * * * * "Yea and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse." "To winter-ground a plant," says Steevens, "is to protect it from the inclemency of the winter-season by straw, dung, etc., laid over it." This seems decisive; otherwise the mention of '_furr'd_ moss' would lead me to read, with Warburton, 'winter-_gown_.' * * * * * "Come on, away; apart upon our knees." A line riming with this is evidently lost. * * * * * "Pisanio might have kill'd thee at the heart And left this head on." For 'this' we should probably read _thy_ or _the_. * * * * * "I fast and pray'd for their intelligence." I think we should read 'fast_ed_.' * * * * * "Try many, all good, serve truly, _and yet_ never Find such another master." Some read '_and_ all good'; others 'serve _them_.' * * * * * SC. 3. "And _he_ will, no doubt, be found."