The words in _Italics_, absolutely necessary for the sense, were supplied by Theobald. * * * * * "I care no more for than I do for heaven, So I were not his sister. Can it _be_ no other?" I can only make sense here by reading 'I'_d_ care _e'en_ more for _it_.' The damp had probably effaced the _d_, _e'e_, _it_, or _t_, and _be_. For a similar omission of _'d_, see on King John iv. 2. The 'no,' however, may have been a casual insertion of the printer's. In my Edition of these plays, unaware of the rime, I placed _be_ at the end of the line; but I corrected it. * * * * * "The mystery of your loneliness." So Theobald properly corrected the _loveliness_ of the folio, the _n_, as was so frequent, having been turned upside down. * * * * * "Confess it, th' one to th' other, and thine eyes." The folio has _'ton tooth to th' other_. The 2nd folio made the necessary correction by rejecting _tooth_--a mere reduplication of 'to th'. Knight, it would appear, was the first to correct _'ton_. * * * * * "Yet in this captious and intenable sieve I still pour in the waters of my love, And lack not to lose still." For 'captious' we should certainly read, with Farmer, _capacious_. It was, in fact, only the omission of a letter. (See on M. for M. iv. 2.) _T_ and _c_ were often used indifferently before _e_ and _i_. _Reck_ might be better than 'lack.' * * * * * "And manifest experience had collected." With Collier's folio I read _manifold_; "an epithet," says Mr. Dyce, "which, I apprehend, can hardly be applied to 'experience.'" Why not? * * * * * "He and his physicians Are of a mind; he that they cannot help him, They that they cannot help _him_." One 'help' has evidently been suggested by the other; for the first I would read _cure_. (See Introd. p. 65.) * * * * * "Embowell'd of their doctrine have left off The danger to itself?--There's something in't More than my father's skill." The best correction of the passage is to supply _tells me_ after 'in it.' This had evidently been effaced, as in Hen. VIII. i. 2. "There's something tells me,--but it is not love,-- I would not lose you."--Mer. of Ven. iii. 2. I arrange the passage thus: "Embowell'd of their doct_e_rine, have left The danger to itself.--There is something in it _tells me_." In the first line I inserted in my Edition _all_; but it was needless; for 'doctrine' was no doubt pronounced as a trisyllable. 'Off' was evidently added by the printer to complete the metre. (See Introd. p. 67.) For 'in't' of the folio Hanmer read _hints_. * * * * * "And pray God's blessing into thy attempt."