* * * * * "I heard no letter from my master since." Hanmer properly read _have had_ for 'heard.' ACT V. SC. 1. "Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee; for I am wish'd Thou shouldest be coloured thus." Pope omitted 'am,' and so his successors; but it must have been a mistake for _'ve_; unless there be an error in 'wish'd.' * * * * * "Gods, if you Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, I never." Possibly the poet wrote more correctly _Had taken_. * * * * * "You some permit To second ills with ills, each elder worse; And make them dread it, to the doer's thrift." A line must have been lost between the two last. 'Elder' is later. * * * * * SC. 3. "Sweet words; or hath more ministers than we That draw his knives in the war." This would seem an instance of the usual change of _or_ for _and_. * * * * * SC. 4. "Thy crystal window ope; [look], look out." * * * * * "Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment." As 'fangled' never occurs without _new_, it is but reasonable to suppose it was omitted here; and 'is,' which is not wanted, was probably inserted for metre's sake. * * * * * "No more tavern-bills, which are _as_ often the sadness." * * * * * SC. 5. "O'ercome you with her show, and in _due_ time." The 2nd folio has '_yes_, and in time.' * * * * * "Mine own.--I know not why, _nor_ whërefore." _Nor_ is the necessary addition of Rowe. * * * * * "One sand Another not more resembles ... That sweet rosy lad." This punctuation, I think, removes all difficulty. In the perturbation of astonishment he stops short, and then tells whom he meant. * * * * * "This man is better than the man he slew." For the first 'man' we had better read _youth_. * * * * * "Your pleasure was my meer offence." So Tyrwhitt; the folio reads _neere_. * * * * * "Beaten for loyalty Excited me to treason." It would seem that _beating_ would be the proper word. * * * * * "Rejoiced _at_ deliverance more. Blest may you be." For 'may' the folio reads _pray_. * * * * * "This fierce abridgement Hath to it circumstantial branches." For 'fierce,' which yields no good sense, I read _first_. 'Abridgement' is summary: "This brief abridgement of my will I make" (Lucrece). * * * * *