Chapter LII: Act IV

SC. 2. "Your husband is in his old _lunes_ again."

The folio has _lines_. Theobald made the correction. See W. T. ii. 2.

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"Good gentlemen, let him _not_ strike the old woman."

The negative was added in the 2nd folio.

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SC. 4. "You say he has been thrown into the rivers."

It might be better to read _see_ for 'say.'

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"That silk will I go buy. And in that time."

With Mr. Dyce, I adopt Theobald's reading of _tire_ for 'time,' as best suited to the context.

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"And he my husband best of all affects."

If 'husband' be the subject to 'affects,' as I think he is, we should read _him_. See Introd. p. 52.

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SC. 5. "Conceal them or thou diest."

Collier's folio for 'or' reads _and_; but the text is right. Simple had used 'conceal' in the sense of reveal, and the Host repeats his word.

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SC. 6. "The mirth whereof_'s_ so larded with my matter."