Chapter XLIII: Act IV

SC. 1. "And the foolish chroniclers of the age found it was--Hero
of Sestos."

The use of the word 'found' proves that Hanmer's reading _coroners_ is right. In Twelfth Night (i. 5) the coroner is said to sit on a drowned man.

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"That cannot make her fault her husband's occasion."

This seems to mean occasioned, caused by her husband. Or we may read, with Hanmer, _accusation_. I find I have done so, but doubt if I was justified in so doing.

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"I'll go find a shadow and sigh till he come.--And I'll _go_ sleep."

Both sense and metre seem to demand this addition.

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SC. 3. "My gentle Phebe did bid me give you this."

Editors, myself included, follow 2nd folio, and omit 'did.' I think we are wrong.

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"Art thou god to shepherd turn'd."

I think we should read '_a_ god.'

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"Like a ripe sister, _but_ the woman low."

The necessary insertion was made in the 2nd folio.

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"As how I came into that desert place."

There may have been, as Malone thought, a line lost here; but I rather think it is an aposiopesis.