Chapter LXVI: Act V

SC. 1. "Destroyed the sweetest companion that e'er man
Bred his hopes out of.--True, too true, my lord."

The folio gives 'True' to the King. See on As You Like It, ii. 1. Ant. and Cleop. ii. 2.

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"Was like to be the best.--_My_ good Paulina."

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"Would make her sainted spirit
Again possess her corpse, and on this stage,
Where we offenders now appear, soul-vex'd,
And begin, Why to me?...--Had she such power
She had just such cause."

In the third line I adopt, with Mr. Dyce, the certain, as I think, emendation of Mr. Spedding, 'Where we offend _her_,' and I join 'now' with it. _Offender_ and _offend her_ are pronounced exactly alike, and 'we' caused the printer to add _s_. In the last line 'such,' caused by that in the preceding line, is superfluous, and should be omitted.

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"Will have your tongue too. This is a creature _who_."

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"Whose daughter
His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her."

I would read, as I find Thirlby read, _her_ for the second 'his,' caused probably by the first.

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"Give you all greetings that a king at friend."

The 2nd folio reads needlessly '_as_ friend.'

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"Which lames Report to follow it, and undoes Description to do it
_justice_."

This last word, added by Singer, is required both by sense and metre.

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"That she might no more be in danger of losing _her_."

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"_And_ caught the water, though not the fish."

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"And himself little better, _and_ extremity of weather continuing."

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SC. 3. "On those that think it is unlawful business."

Hanmer properly read _Or_ for 'On.'

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"Strike all that look upon _you_ with marvel. Come."

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"This is your son-in-law,
And son unto the king, who, heavens directing,
Is troth-plight to your daughter."

So it should be punctuated. The folio reads 'whom,' confounding, as usual, _who_ and _whom_; of which there are other instances in this play. See Introd. p. 59.

THE TEMPEST.