'_Oph._ You must sing a downe a downe, And you call him a downe a. O how the wheele becomes it, It is the false Steward that stole his Maisters daughter.' It is printed as prose in the Folios; beginning, 'You must sing downe a-downe, &c.' There is no indication that any part was meant to be sung. Johnson first printed 'You must sing ... call him a-down-a' in italics, as a snatch of song. Steevens (1778) put 'Down a down, as you call him a-down-a' in italics, a reading suggested by Capell's text, where 'Down' begins with a capital letter. The late Mr John Taylor, in a copy of the second Variorum edition (1813) now in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, has made the following note. "Ophelia gives the song without the Burthen first, and then she instructs them 'You must sing _a-down a-down_, and you (speaking to another) call him _a-down-a_." NOTE XXIX. IV. 5. 195. In the Folios Ophelia's song is printed in Italics, and the words 'And ... you' in Roman type, 'God buy ye' being in a separate line. In the second and third Quartos the whole is printed in Roman type, and ends thus: 'God a mercy on his soule, and of all Christians soules, God buy you.' We have indicated in the foot-note how the later Quartos differ from the earlier. NOTE XXX. IV. 7. 139. Pope in his second edition says that 'one edition has it, _embaited_ or envenomed.' We have not been able to find this reading in any copy, but Theobald (_Shakespeare Restored_, p. 119) conjectured 'imbaited.' As this conjecture is not mentioned in his edition, we have here, as in other cases, recorded it as 'withdrawn.' NOTE XXXI. V. 1. 57, 58. Mr Collier in his first edition conjectured that 'Yaughan' might be 'a mis-spelt stage direction to inform the player that he was to _yawn_ at this point.' Mr Staunton says, "Whether by 'Yaughan' a man or place is meant, or whether the word is a corruption, we are not qualified to determine." Mr Grant White says, "I suspect that 'Yaughan' is a misprint for 'Tavern.' But some local allusion understood at the day may lurk under it." NOTE XXXII. V. 2. 205, 206. The reading in the text is taken partly from the Folios and partly from the Quartos, altering however the punctuation. The second Quarto, followed substantially by the rest, has as follows: 'The readines is all, since no man of ought he leaues, knowes what ist to leaue betimes, let be.' The first Folio, followed, except in spelling, by the rest, has: _'The readinesse is all, since no man ha's ought of what he leaues. What is't to leaue betimes?'_ The Quartos of 1676, 1683, 1695 and 1703 have: 'The readiness is all, since no man of ought he leaves knows what 'tis to leave betimes, let be.' Rowe, Pope and Theobald followed the Folios. Hanmer: 'The readiness is all. Since no man owes aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?' Warburton: