Chapter XXXII: Act III

SC. 1. "Spit in the hole, man, and tune _it_ again."

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"To charge true rules for old inventions."

All are agreed to read _change_ with 2nd folio; and as 'old' evidently makes no sense, Theobald read _odd_. With Rowe I prefer _new_. (See Introd. p. 66.)

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SC. 2. "Make friends, invite, and proclaim the banns."

The 2nd folio adds _yes_, Malone _them_, Dyce _guests_ after 'invite'; my own conjecture was _aye_. Would it not be better, however, to read as I have done, "Make friends _be_ invite_d_, and proclaim the banns"? There is an exactly similar omission of _be_ in All's Well, i. 3, where there can be no doubt. We might also read simply 'friends invite_d_'; but I doubt, after all, if it were not best to read "Make invite friends _too_ and proclaim the banns," which would agree better with the character of the speaker.

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"Master, master! news, and such news as you never heard of.--
Is it new and old too? how may that be?"

Is it quite evident that _old_ has been omitted in the first line. Rowe, who is followed, prefixed it to the first 'news.' I think it is better with the second, as in Collier's folio.

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"Often burst, and now_'s_ repaired with knots."

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"And 'The Humours of forty Fancies.'"

Collier's folio reads "The Amours or forty Fancies."

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"Were it _not_ better I should rush in thus...."

Sense and metre demand the negative. There is, I think, a break in sense at the end of the line.

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"But, sir, _to her_ love concerneth us to add
Her father's liking."

So I find Tyrwhitt also correctly completed the line.

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"Signior Gremio, _how_ came you from the church."

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"I'll tell you, sir Lucentio. When the priest."

For 'sir' we should most certainly read _signior_. (See on Induction, sc. 1.)

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"Having no other reason, etc."

This speech is prose in the 1st folio; in the 2nd it is arranged as verse, but not well. In my Edition I have rearranged it, as I find Reed also had done.

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"My household stuff, my field, my barn, _my granary_."

S. Walker conjectured _my grange_; the Cambridge editors _my garner_.