Chapter VII: Act II: SC. 1. "Will you come home? quoth I."

Hanmer properly added _home_, which was plainly omitted.

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"I see the jewel best enamelled
Will lose his beauty, yet the gold bides still,
That others touch.--And often touching will
Where gold; and no man that hath a name
By falsehood and corruption doth it shame."

To give sense to this passage I read in the second line _bide_; in the fourth, with Warburton, _wear_, with Heath _so a_ for 'no'; in which two I had thus been anticipated. The punctuation given here is my own. I am dubious of 'others' in the third line, for which we might read _fingers_, or some other word.

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SC. 2. "Your sauciness will jest upon."

For 'jest' Mr. Dyce reads _jet_, referring to Rich. III. ii. 4, Tit. Andron. ii. 1; and "It is hard when Englishmen's patience must be thus _jetted_ upon by strangers."--Play of Sir T. More, p. 2.

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"And what he hath scanted them in hair he hath given them in wit."

For the first 'them' Theobald properly read _men_.

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"The one to save the money that he spends in trying."

For 'trying' Pope read _tyring_ by simply transposing, Rowe _trimming_. I rather prefer the former, as _tyring_ is attiring, and 'attire' is head-dress; but whether used of a man or not I am not certain.--See my note on Milton's On Time, _v._ 21.

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"I live distain'd, thou undishonoured."

Quite the contrary; for she would rather "live an unstain'd life." R. and J. iv. 1. Theobald read _unstain'd_, but I prefer _un_distain'd. The printer was more likely to omit _un_ (see on Cymb. i. 7) than to change it to _di_. There is also an agreeable effect on the ear produced by the accents falling on _un_ in both words. In all these plays lines frequently begin with an anapæst.

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"I'll entertain the freed fallacy."

For 'freed,' which can hardly be right, Pope read _favour'd_, Capell, much better, _offer'd_.

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"We talk with goblins, owls, and sprites."

To complete the measure, the editor of 2nd folio inserted _elves_, and before 'sprites'; from which Rowe made _elvish_ 'sprites.' For 'owls' Theobald read _ouphes_; but that term occurs only in The Merry Wives. I read--

"_For here_ we talk with goblins, elves, and sprites."

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"I am transformed, master, am not I?"

Theobald also made this obvious and necessary transposition of 'I not.'