Chapter CXXV: Act I

SC. 1. "To weep; whose every passion fully strives."

The 1st folio reads 'who'; the correction was made in the 2nd.

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SC. 2. "Must change his horns with garlands."

Both Southern and Warburton read _charge_.

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"And, fertile every wish, a million."

Warburton's correction of 'foretel' of the folio.

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"Saw you my lord?--No, lady."

So 2nd folio; the 1st has _Save_.

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"Extended Asia from Euphrates, _and_
His conquering banners shook from Syria."

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"Antony thou would'st say.--Oh, _no_, my lord."

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"Oh! then we bring forth weeds
When our quick minds lie still, and our ills told us
Is as our earing."

'Minds' is Warburton's correction of 'winds.' This confusion of _m_ and _w_ is not unusual. In King John (v. 7) we have, "And the siege is now against the _wind_;" and in Cymb. (ii. 4) "Now _w_ingled with their courages."

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"And get her love to part."

The usual correction, _leave_, is right. Two Gent. i. 1.

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SC. 3. "Tempt him not so too far. I wish forbear."

'Wish' here signifies recommend, advise. I think we should read 'wish _you_,' as it is always followed by its object when used in this sense.

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SC. 4. "One great competitor."

The proper word is _Our_. See on Cor. iii. 1.

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"Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones
Call on him for it."

Collier's folio reads _Fall_. I agree with it.

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"As we rate boys; who being mature in knowledge."

I read '_im_mature,' for the negative is required.

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"And the ebb'd man, ne'er lov'd till ne'er worth love,
Comes fear'd by being lack'd."

Warburton, who has been generally followed, made the correction _dear'd_. But there is no such verb. I read _dear_. "I shall be lov'd when I am lack'd" (Cor. iv. 1). _Come_ for _became_ occurs also in "so _came_ I a widow" (2 Hen. IV. ii. 3).

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"Goes to and back lacking the varying tide."

Theobald read justly _lackeying_. I read _fro_ for 'back.'

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"Both what by sea and land I shall be able
To 'front the present time."

I read '_With_ what both.'

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"To let me be partaker of."

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SC. 5. "For so he calls me--Now I feed myself
With most delicious poison--thinks on me," etc.

It is thus I would give force to the passage. The appeal to those present is feeble.

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"And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed."

There can be no doubt that 'arm-gaunt' is a printer's blunder. The best correction seems to be that of Boaden and myself, _arrogant_; we might also read _ardent_, as we have "a hot and fiery steed" (Rich. II. v. 2); or _angry_, as in F. Q. i. 1, 1. I had, like M. Mason, conjectured _termagant_; but that term is never applied to an animal. In favour of _arrogant_, Singer quoted from the Arauco Domado of Lope de Vega

"Y el _cavallo arrogante_, en que subido
El hombre parecia
Monstruosa fiera que seis pies tenia."

In Spanish, I may observe, _caballo arrogante_ is simply a gallant, spirited horse. See Calderon, La Niña de Gomez Arias. II. There is not, as far as I know, any instance of the use of _arrogant_ in this sense in English; and it would be a curious circumstance if Shakespeare had learned the Spanish sense of it.

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