Chapter CXVI: Act III: SCENE 1. Page 99

CYM. Our ancestor was that Mulmutius, which
Ordain'd our laws ...
... Mulmutius,
Who was the first of Britain, &c.

The judicious and necessary omission of the words "made our laws," after the second Mulmutius, originally belongs to Sir Thomas Hanmer, who would have deserved more thanks from his readers for his regulations of Shakspeare's metre, if they had not been too frequently made without a proper regard to the accuracy of the text.

SCENE 1. Page 100.

CYM. Thy Cæsar _knighted_ me.

Although our old writers frequently make mention of _Roman knights_, that is, military chieftains, it is very much to be apprehended that the present expression must be regarded as a downright anachronism, as well as another similar passage, in p. 213, where Cymbeline addresses Belarius and his sons: "Bow your knees; arise my _knights_ of the battle, &c." The word _knight_ was formerly used with great latitude. Dr. Bullein calls Dioscorides "that olde famous Egyptian _knyghte_."

SCENE 2. Page 105.

IMO. (Some griefs are med'cinable;) that is one of them,
For it doth physick love;----

The _whole_ of this should be included in the parenthesis, as in Mr. Malone's edition. No reason has been assigned by Mr. Steevens for the variation, which may be an error of the press.

SCENE 3. Page 117.

BEL. ... _Euriphile_,
Thou wast their nurse----

The above name might have been borrowed from the story of Amphiaraus and _Eriphile_, in Pettie's _Petite palace_, 1598, 4to.

SCENE 4. Page 120.

PIS. ... whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.

So in the anonymous play of _Wily beguilde_,

"Whose tongue more venom than the serpent's sting."

It is difficult to say which is the imitation.