'He is a Man (setting his Fate aside) of comely Vertues, Nor did he soyle the fact with Cowardice, (And Honour in him, which buyes out his fault) But &c.' Rowe arranged the lines as follows: 'He is a Man, setting his Fate aside, of comely Virtues, And Honour in him, which buys out his Fault; Nor did he soil the Fact with Cowardise, But &c.' Pope read: 'He is a man, setting his fault aside, Of virtuous honour, which buys out his fault; Nor did he soil the fact with cowardise, But &c.' Theobald follows Pope verbatim, and so Hanmer, except that he reads 'setting this fact aside.' Warburton proposed 'setting this fault aside.' Johnson read: 'He is a man, setting his fault aside, Of comely virtues; Nor did he soil the fact with cowardise, An honour in him which buys out his fault, But, &c.' Steevens, in his edition of 1773, restored 'his fate' from the Folios in the first line, giving the reading we have adopted in the text. NOTE XIII. III. 5. 49-51. The first Folio has here: 'And the Asse, more Captaine then the Lyon? The fellow loaden with Irons, wiser then the Iudge? If Wisedome be in suffering, Oh my Lords, &c. &c.' The second Folio: 'And the Asse, more Captaine then the Lyon? the fellow Loaden with Irons, wiser then the Iudge? If Wisedome be in suffering. Oh my Lords, &c. &c.' The third and fourth Folios, spelling apart, follow the second. Rowe placed a comma after 'Judge,' and this punctuation was adopted by all subsequent editors. Pope altered the passage thus: 'The ass, more than the lion; and the fellow Loaden with irons, &c.' He was followed by Theobald, Hanmer and Warburton, and by Johnson in his text; the last named however proposed a different arrangement of the preceding line and the substitution of 'felon' for 'fellow' in line 49, thus: 'what make we Abroad, why then the women are more valiant That stay at home; If bearing carry it, then is the ass More captain than the lion, and the felon Loaden with irons &c.' This suggestion was adopted substantially by Rann. The reading 'felon' had been independently proposed by Theobald (Nichols's _Illustrations_, II. 475). Capell and Steevens (1773) followed Pope. Steevens (1778) read: 'The ass, more captain than the lion; and the fellow, Loaden &c.' In 1793 he read: 'And th' ass, more captain than the lion; the felon, Loaden &c.' This was followed in the Variorum Editions of 1803 and 1813. Malone (1790) read: 'And the ass, more captain than the lion; the fellow, Loaden &c.' and was followed by Boswell (1821). Mr Knight (1839) returned to the arrangement and readings of the first Folio. Singer (ed. 2) adopted this arrangement, but read 'felon' for 'fellow.' In his first edition he followed the arrangement of the second Folio, reading 'felon.' Mitford suggests: