'So' should be _more_, or rather _moe_; but it may be as the poet wrote it. * * * * * "This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid." The original editions have 'This _signior Junio's_ giant-dwarf,' which possibly may be right, there being an allusion to some poem or tale now lost. The text is the correction of Hanmer. * * * * * "What, _I_! I love! I sue! I seek a wife!" * * * * * "A whitely wanton with a velvet brow." Rosaline was dark, so Collier's folio reads _witty_ for 'whitely,' and the Cambridge editors _wightly_; yet the poet may have been merely oblivious. * * * * * "Well, I will love, _will_ write, sigh, pray, sue, groan." ACT IV. SC. 1. "That more for praise than purpose meant to kill." The meaning of 'purpose' is not very clear; perhaps it should be _purchase_. * * * * * "He came, saw ... saw two." Both 4to and folio read 'see.' Rowe made the obvious correction. * * * * * "A mark marvellous well shot; for they both did hit _it_." It was the 4th folio that supplied _it_. * * * * * "An if my hand be out, then, belike, your hand is in.-- Then will she get the upshot by cleaving the pin." 'Pin' is the correction of the 2nd folio; both the 4to and 1st folio have _is in_, as in preceding line, and possibly so the poet wrote it; for it makes a kind of sense, and he may have had his reasons for using it. * * * * * "Armado a' the tother side." So I read, as the 4to has _ath toother side_, and the folio _ath to the side_. The usual reading is "on the one side;" but we are not to look for rigid consistency in Costard's language. * * * * * "To see him kiss his hand! and how sweetly 'a will swear." A line riming with this seems to be lost. * * * * * SC. 2. "So were there a patch set on learning to see him at school." Misled by Singer, I gave in my Edition, _set_, the reading of Collier's folio, for 'see,' which may be right. * * * * * "And to humour the ignorant I _have_ call'd the deer," etc. Rowe was right, I think, in supplying _I have_. Singer reads _I will call_; Collier's folio _I call_; he Cambridge editors _call I_. * * * * * "Makes fifty sores, O sore L!" The reading of the Cambridge editors is _one soul_. * * * * * _"Of piercing a hogshead!"_ The poet, I suspect, wrote _Oh_! not 'Of'; and so I have ventured to give it. * * * * * "Celestial, as thou art, oh! pardon Love this wrong, That _he_ sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue."