The context seems to require _die_, not 'live'; so here, as elsewhere, we may happen to have a substitution of the contrary term. (See Introd. p. 66.) * * * * * "Or whether he thinks it were not possible." This would seem to be one of the places where 'or' is for _and_. * * * * * SC. 4. "Dear almost as his life; _for_ which gratitude." Both sense and metre require this addition. * * * * * "Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us." As 'revives' seems to make no sense, we might read _reproves_, or rather _invites_. "The _time invites you_. Go." (Ham. i. 3.) * * * * * SC. 5. "But sure he is the prince of the world." For 'sure' we should, I think, read _since_. ACT V. SC. 2. "But I am now, sir, muddied in Fortune's mood." Warburton's conjecture of _moat_ for 'mood' is very specious, but, I fear, nothing more. 'Muddied' and 'mood' form what is termed a paronomasia. * * * * * "I do pity his distress in my smiles of comfort." The Cambridge editors adopt Warburton's reading _similes_. I doubt if either was the poet's word. * * * * * "You beg more than _one_ word then." It was the 3rd folio that supplied _one_. * * * * * SC. 3. "Natural rebellion done in the blade of youth, When oil and fire," etc. The context would suggest _blaze_ to any one, as it did to Theobald. * * * * * "The nature of his great offence is dead." He means Helena, but I do not see how 'nature' applies to her. Perhaps we should read _motive_; or some other word. * * * * * "I am not a day of season." Something seems evidently lost here; for the address to Bertram is too abrupt. I would read 'season_able weather_.' We have, 'Like an _unseasonable_ stormy day (Rich. II. iii. 2); and there was in the Liturgy, at that time, "a prayer for _seasonable weather_." The phrase 'day of season,' I believe, occurs nowhere else. Lower down--probably in the same page of the MS.--there appears to be an effacement of the same kind, and the loss of an entire line. * * * * * "The daughter of this lord.-- Admiringly, my liege. At first * * * _sight of her_. (?) I stuck my choice upon her. Ere my heart Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue, Where the impression of mine eye infixing," etc. Is it not amazing that no one seems ever to have perceived that a line must have been lost between the last two lines? It may have been of this kind, "_Another object met my wandering fancy_." Capell, I find, read 'At _the_ first _sight_.' * * * * * "The last that ere I took her leave at court."