I read 'last _time_' and _e'er_ for 'ere.' Rowe read _e'er she_; but the text is right. "And that even here thou takest As from my death-bed, my last living leave."--Rich. II. 5. "He needs not our mistrust."--Macb. iii. 3. * * * * * "I bade her if her fortunes ever stood," etc. The proper word would seem to be _told_, not 'bade'; but _bid_ was used in the sense of tell or say, as in "bid farewell," etc. "And _bade_ me if I had a friend that lov'd her; I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her."--Othel. i. 3. "Now I, to comfort him, _bid_ him 'a should not think of God."--Hen. V. ii. 3. * * * * * "I stood ingaged." As 'ingaged' is usually the same as _engaged_, a sense which would be absurd here, we might venture to read '_u_ngaged,' or '_un_ingaged. (See on Com. of Err. ii. 2.) * * * * * "I'll buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll _him_." So Steevens also reads. * * * * * "I wonder, sir, sir wives are monsters to you." The second 'sir' is an evident error. The 2nd folio omits it, and reads 'are _such_.' I read, as Tyrwhitt had done, _since_. * * * * * "Come hither, Count. Do you know these women _here_"? * * * * * "Than in my thought it lies _now_.--Good, my lord." * * * * * "He blushes, and 'tis hit." For 'hit,' which is probably wrong, Capell read _it_; Pope, who is generally followed, _his_. It is very hard to choose; as each makes good sense, each is a natural printer's error. * * * * * "Her insuit coming with her modern grace." I accept without hesitation the excellent correction of Collier's folio, and of Sidney Walker, _infinite cunning_. In Tr. and Cr. iii. 2, we read '_coming_ in dumbness,' where Pope made the proper correction _cunning_. * * * * * "You, that have turned off a first so noble wife, May justly diet me." As I can make little sense of 'diet,' I read _deny_. * * * * * "Do you _not_ know he promised me marriage?" The negative is required for both sense and metre. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. ACT I. SC. 1. "And when the moon, like to a silver bow New-bent in heaven." 'New' is the correction of Rowe; the 4tos and folio have _Now_. * * * * * "But I will woo thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling." Collier's folio gives the right word, 'revel_ry_.' * * * * * "This man hath [be]witch'd the bosom of my child."