III. 3. 52. Capell seems to have printed '_the_ castle's' by mistake for '_this_ castle's'--the reading of all the old copies. The mistake was copied in several subsequent editions. NOTE XXI. III. 4. 22. 'And I could sing, would weeping do me good, And never borrow any tear of thee.' Although most editors have acquiesced in Pope's conjecture '_weep_' for '_sing_,' we retain '_sing_,' which all the Quartos and Folios agree in. The mistake is not one which a transcriber or printer would be likely to make, and the original reading yields a very good sense. The Queen speaks with an emphasis on 'sing:' 'And I could even sing for joy if my troubles were only such as weeping could alleviate, and then I would not ask you to weep for me.' NOTE XXII. IV. 1. 52. Pope added to Aumerle's speech three lines he found in the Quarto, beginning 'Who sets me else ...?' without intimating that it contained other five lines, 'I task thee ... thou dar'st,' which he omitted. The omission escaped the notice of Theobald and Warburton. Johnson was the first to supply it. He added in a note: 'This speech I have restored from the first edition in humble imitation of former editors, though, I believe, against the mind of the authour. For _the earth_ I suppose we ought to read, _thy oath_.' NOTE XXIII. IV. 1. 280 sqq. The third and fourth Quartos (the earliest editions which contain this scene) read here: '... prosperitie. Was this the face that euery day vnder his Houshold roofe did keepe ten thousand men? Was this the face that faast so many follies, And was ...' The first Folio has: '... prosperitie, Thou do'st beguile me. Was this Face, the Face That every day, vnder his House-hold Roofe, Did keepe ten thousand men? Was this the Face, That like the Sunne, did make beholders winke? Is this the Face, which fac'd so many follyes, That was ...' NOTE XXIV. V. 1. 88. Sidney Walker (_Criticisms_, Vol. I. p. 189-193) has collected instances of 'near' and 'far' used in the sense of 'nearer' and 'farther.' For an instance of the latter, see _Winter's Tale_, IV. 4. 420, 'Far than Deucalion off.' NOTE XXV. V. 2. 28. Possibly 'God save him' should be printed in a line by itself. NOTE XXVI. V. 2. 57. Malone says of this passage: 'Perhaps like many other speeches in this scene it was not intended for verse.' NOTE XXVII. V. 3. 12. Mr Staunton thinks that the words 'So dissolute a crew' were part of a line which was intended to be cancelled, or to supply the place of 'even such they say,' line 8. NOTE XXVIII. V. 3. 21-24. Capell's arrangement is as follows: 'As dissolute as desperate: yet through both, I see some _sparkles of_ a better hope, Which elder years may happily bring forth. But who comes here?' NOTE XXIX.