Chapter XXXI: Act II

SC. 1. "As the other in music and _in_ mathematics."

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"But, gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger."

Perhaps for 'sir' we should read _signior_, and for 'walk' _look_.

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"Sirrah!
Lead these gentlemen to my daughters, and tell them both."

So we should arrange the passage.

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"No such jade as you, if me you mean."

We might read 'Not such _a_ jade.' Mr. Dyce reads, after Collier's folio, 'as _bear_ you,' which is better, and which I follow.

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"'_Tis_ in his tail.--'_Tis_ in his tongue.--Whose tongue?"

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"The gain I seek is quiet me the match."

For 'me' Rowe properly read _in_.

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"Myself am struck in years I must confess."

There must be a line at least lost after this.

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"_To_ set foot under thy table. Tut, a toy."

"Do get their children; but in this case of wooing
A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning."

Rime demands for 'cunning' the reading of Steevens, _doing_. _Wooing_ and _doing_ have already rimed in this scene. (See also Tr. and Cr. i. 2, _ad fin._)