Chapter CV: Act IV

"You're well met once again, _sir_.--So are you."

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"A bold brave gentleman. _And_ that should be."

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SC. 2. "One that by suggestion
Tied all the kingdom."

I do not understand 'Tied' here. Hanmer proposed _Tith'd_; the word might also be _Tir'd_; or perhaps _task'd_. "And in the neck of that _task'd the whole state_" (1 Hen. IV. iv. 3). We, however, meet in B. and F.'s Four Plays in One, Triumph of Time, Sc. 1:--

"And greedy Lucre at a serious conference
Which way to _tie_ the world within their statutes."

Holingshed's words are, "By crafty suggestion got into his hands innumerable treasure."

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"Unwilling to outlive the good that did it."

We must either read _he_ for 'that,' or, what is more likely, suppose a word lost at the end of the line. We might read _cherish_, as we have. "This juggling witchcraft _with reverence cherish_" (King John, iii. 1). I have, however, read _nourish_, though I see no advantage in it. "Kings shall be thy nursing-fathers" may have been in the poet's mind. 'Good' is goodness, as _fair_ is fairness.

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"How pale she looks,
And of an earthly cold_ness_! Mark her eyes!"

So Collier's folio also reads. Mr. Staunton proposes _Her hand_ for 'And,' or 'And _feels_.'

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"Say to _him_ his long trouble now is passing
Out of the world."