Chapter CXXI: Act V

SC. 1. "And your unblest fate hies; strumpet, I come."

As 'hies' is always, as far as I am aware, followed by some qualifying term, I add _on_ or with the 4to, 'apace.'

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SC. 2. "Put out the light, and then ... put out the light!"

I adopt this punctuation of Warburton's. He was going to say something further, but he stops, and contents himself with repeating his words.

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"Should I repent me: but once put out thine."

So the 4to; the folio for 'thine' has 'thy light,' which is far less effective.

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"Oh, falsely, falsely murdered!"

It would not be possible, in the whole compass of poetry, to find a more glaring absurdity than this of making Desdemona speak after she had been smothered.

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"Like the base Indian threw a pearl away
More worth than all his tribe."

The folio reads 'Iudean,' and there has been great controversy on the subject. In any case the allusion is unknown.

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"Their medicinal gum."

The reading of the 4to; the folio has 'medicinable.' Mr. Dyce doubts if at that time 'medicinal,' with the accent on the penult, was in use; but this place might seem to prove it, and it may be so pronounced also in W. Tale, ii. 3. (See my note on Milton's Sam. Ag. 627.) In it the French and not the Latin accentuation was followed.

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"Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk."

Perhaps here, as elsewhere, 'Where' has taken the place of _When_.

JULIUS CÆSAR.

ACT I.

SC. 1. "But if you _should_ be out, sir, I can mend you."

For a similar omission, also injurious to the metre, see on Twelfth Night, ii. 5.

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SC. 2. "That her wide walls encompass'd but one man."

The folio has _walks_; the obvious correction is from Collier's folio.

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"What you would work me to I have some aim _of_."

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"From that it is disposed _to_; therefore 'tis meet."

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SC. 3. "In favour's like the work we have in hand."

'In' is the necessary correction of _Is_ of the folio. See on K. John, iv. 2.