I. 3. 74. The following are the readings of the different editions and the emendations which have been proposed for this line: 'Are of a most select and generall chiefe in that:' (Q₁). 'Or of a most select and generous, chiefe in that:' Q₂ Q₃. 'Ar of a most select and generous, cheefe in that:' Q₄. 'Are of a most select and generous, chiefe in that:' Q₅ Q₆. 'Are of a most select and generous cheff in that.' Ff. 'Are most select and generous, chief in that.' Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, Johnson, Capell, Steevens (1793), Rann, Caldecott, Singer, Harness, Delius, &c. 'Are most select, and generous, chief in that.' Steevens (1773). 'Are most select, and generous chief, in that.' Steevens (1778 and 1785). 'Are of a most select and generous chief, in that.' Malone. 'Select and generous, are most choice in that.' Steevens conj. 'Are of a most select and generous choice in that.' Collier MS., adopted by Elze, Collier, ed. 2, and Keightley. 'Are of a most select and generous sheaf in that.' Staunton. 'Are most select and generous in that.' Grant White. 'Are of a most select and generous class in that.' Bullock conj. 'Are of a most select and generous choice.' Lloyd conj. NOTE IV. I. 3. 109. The second and third Quartos include the words 'not ... thus' in a parenthesis. In the fourth, fifth, and sixth, the parenthesis ends at 'phrase;' an arrangement, which was adopted by Pope and corrected by Theobald at Warburton's suggestion. The Folios have no parenthesis. NOTE V. I. 3. 117. Malone conjectured that some epithet to 'blazes' has been omitted; and Coleridge 'did not doubt that a spondee had dropt out of the line.' He proposed either 'Go to, these blazes, daughter,' or 'these blazes, daughter, mark you.' _Notes and Lectures_, 1. p. 220 (ed. 1849). NOTE VI. I. 4. 36, 37. We have left this corrupt passage unaltered because none of the conjectures proposed appear to be satisfactory. Rann, reading in his text: 'The dram of base Doth all the noble substance of worth out To his own scandal....' gives some conjectures, without naming the authors, in a note thus: '_Doth all, &c. oft corrupt: oft work out: eat out: By it's own scandal._' The first of these alterations, 'oft corrupt,' anticipates one which Mitford published as his own, and the third, 'eat out,' is borrowed from the author of 'the Revisal' (Heath). Mr Grant White suggests that "the corruption lurks in a part of the passage hitherto unsuspected, and that 'Doth' is either a misprint of 'Hath,' or has the sense of 'accomplishes.'" Mr Keightley reads, 'The dram of evil Doth all the noble substance, out o' doubt, To his own scandal....' marking the sentence as incomplete. NOTE VII.