Chapter C: Act III

SC. 1. "Too late he died, that might have kept that title."

Surely it was too _soon_ or too _early_. This may, perhaps, be regarded as an instance of the substitution of a contrary term. In the Faerie Queen, however, we have "Saying, that harlot she _too lately_ knew" (i. 3. 25). "And knightly worth which he _too late_ did try" (Ib. iii. 9. 25). See Index, _s. v._ Too.

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"I pray you, _gentle_ uncle, give me this dagger."

We might also read 'give _to_ me'; but it would sound rather stiff. The usual reading is 'uncle _then_.'

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"My lord, will it please you _to_ pass along?"

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SC. 2. "My lord, I hold my life as dear as you do yours."

The folio omits 'you do' which is necessary for the sense, and is in the 4tos.

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SC. 3. "Make haste, the hour of death is expiate."

In Sonnet xxii. 'expiate' is also used in the sense of expired, ended.

"And whëre one sad truth may _expiate_
Thy wrath."
Donne, Elegy xiv.

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SC. 5. "Because, my lord, we would have had you heard."

Grammar requires 'hear.'

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SC. 7. "To be spoke to, but _only_ by the Recorder."

_Only_ is often omitted after 'but.' We might also read 'spoke_n_ _un_to.'

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"He is not lulling on a lewd day-bed."

A 'day-bed' was a couch or sofa. The folio has '_love_-bed.' 'Lulling' and _lolling_ are only different orthographies, like _justling_ and _jostling_.

ACT IV.

SC. 4. "That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,
That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls."

So Capell judiciously transposed these lines.

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"Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee."

For 'hate,' Tyrwhitt read _love_; Mason _have_.

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SC. 5. "Sir Gilbert Talbot _and_ Sir William Stanley."