For 'for,' the judicious correction of 2nd folio, the 1st has _so_.--See on L. L. L. i. 1; 1 Hen. IV. i. 3. * * * * * "To seek thy help by beneficial help." See Introd. p. 61. For the first 'help,' Pope read _life_; I read _ransom_, a word already used by the Duke. If the error should be in the second 'help,' we might, with Malone, read _means_; which, however, is rather feeble. * * * * * "And live, if no thou then art doom'd to die." For 'no' we should surely, with Rowe, read _not_. * * * * * SC. 2. "Who falling there to find his fellow forth." Mr. Barron Field proposed _failing_, which may be right. * * * * * "Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock, And strike you home without a messenger." 'Clock' is Pope's correction for _cook_ of the folio, which, however, may be right after all; for the cook used to _strike_ on the dresser to give notice that the dinner was ready. ACT II. SC. 1. "Will you come _home_? quoth I." Hanmer properly added _home_, which was plainly omitted. * * * * * "I see the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty, yet the gold bides still, That others touch.--And often touching will Where gold; and no man that hath a name By falsehood and corruption doth it shame." To give sense to this passage I read in the second line _bide_; in the fourth, with Warburton, _wear_, with Heath _so a_ for 'no'; in which two I had thus been anticipated. The punctuation given here is my own. I am dubious of 'others' in the third line, for which we might read _fingers_, or some other word. * * * * * SC. 2. "Your sauciness will jest upon." For 'jest' Mr. Dyce reads _jet_, referring to Rich. III. ii. 4, Tit. Andron. ii. 1; and "It is hard when Englishmen's patience must be thus _jetted_ upon by strangers."--Play of Sir T. More, p. 2. * * * * * "And what he hath scanted them in hair he hath given them in wit." For the first 'them' Theobald properly read _men_. * * * * * "The one to save the money that he spends in trying." For 'trying' Pope read _tyring_ by simply transposing, Rowe _trimming_. I rather prefer the former, as _tyring_ is attiring, and 'attire' is head-dress; but whether used of a man or not I am not certain.--See my note on Milton's On Time, _v._ 21. * * * * * "I live distain'd, thou undishonoured."