"When my new mind had no infusion known, Thou gav'st so deep a tincture of thine own, That ever since I vainly try To wash away the inherent dye." Cowley, The Complaint, 122. "For _dye_ a husband that has wit with an opinion that thou art honest, and see who dares wash the colour out." (Killigrew, Parson's Wedding, ii. 3.) "Ma ben di rado avviene che le parole affermative e sicure d'una persona autorevole in qualsivoglia genere _non tingano dal loro colore la mente di chi le ascolta_." (Manzoni, Prom. Sposi, ch. xx.) The 'zeal' in the last line may have been produced in the usual way by that in the preceding line, and the poet's word have been _hue_; but a change is not absolutely necessary. * * * * * "Keep some state in thy exit, and _so_ vanish." * * * * * "Speak _on_, brave Hector; we are much delighted." * * * * * "A heavy heart bears not a humble tongue." I conjectured _nimble_, in which I had been preceded, as usual, by Theobald. "You have a _nimble_ wit." (As You Like It, iii. 2.) The error, however, may be, and I think is, in 'not,' for which I read _but_, as these words are so constantly confounded. Collier's folio makes the same correction. * * * * * "And though the mourning brow of progeny." For 'And' I incline to read _Then_. (See on M. N. D. ii. 1.) * * * * * "Full of straying shapes, of habits, and of forms." Coleridge read 'stray,' which seems better. * * * * * "Suggested us to make _'em_. Therefore, ladies." * * * * * "But more devout than this in our respects Have we not been." This is the reading of Hanmer generally received. That of the folio is 'than _these are_ our respects,' where, if we read 'than these our respects are,' we get perhaps as good a sense. 'Devout' seems to mean devoted, or serious, or in earnest; 'respects' _sc._ of you, behaviour respecting you. * * * * * "And what to me, my love?... of people sick." This passage should certainly be omitted as a repetition. See on iv. 3. * * * * * "Call them forth quickly; _and_ we will do so." ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. ACT I. SC. 1. "_It_ would have made nature immortal." * * * * * "_Hel._ If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess makes it soon mortal. _Laf._ How understand we that?" In the folio the first of these speeches is given to the Countess; but Tieck saw rightly that it could only belong to Helena. I have transposed the next two speeches; for Lafeu must reply immediately; metrically also his reply is the complement of the speech of Helena, in which 'living' and 'grief' should perhaps change places.