Chapter CXXXI: Act II

SC. 1. "How in my strength you please. For you, _good_ Edmund."

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"_Corn._ You know not why we came to visit you.

_Reg._ Thus out of season threading dark-eyed night.
Occasions, noble Gloster, of some poise,
Wherein we must have use of your advice."

It is strange that the editors have not seen that _Reg._ is out of place. It belongs to the third line. (See on Hen. V. i. 1.) In her usual forward impatient manner she takes, as we say, the words out of Cornwall's mouth. There is evidently a line lost after the fourth. We might read "Have been the cause of this our sudden visit."

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SC. 2. "Knowing nought _else_, like dogs, but following."

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"Smile you _at_ my speeches, as I were a fool?"

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SC. 4. "They have travell'd hard to-night. Mere fetches _these_."

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"For the sound man.--Death on my state!
Wherefore should he sit here? This act persuades me."

This is the proper arrangement.

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"Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give
Thee o'er to harshness."

Neither _hefted_ nor _hested_, the other reading, makes sense; the conjecture _hearted_ may, then, be right.

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"To wage _war_ against the enmity of the air."

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"You heavens, give me that patience [patience] I need."

Malone made the same omission.

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"_He_ hath put himself from rest, and must needs taste his folly."