Chapter CXL: Act II: SC. 1. "When Achilles' brach bids me."

'Brach' is Rowe's correction; the originals have _brooch_, which--as being an ornament hung round the neck--may be right. See Win. Tale, i. 2.

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SC. 2. "Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes stale the Morning'_s_."

So the folio reads, followed by Singer and Dyce; the 4tos read _pale_ for 'stale'--a reading I incline to prefer.

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"As you must needs; for you all cried--Go, Go."

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"The issue of your proper wisdoms rate."

Perhaps some word, such as _thus_ or _low_, has been lost after 'rate,' or we should read '_under_rate.'

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"I have a roisting challenge sent amongst."

As I have not met with the verb 'roist' anywhere else, I suspect that the poet may have written _roistering_, and the transcriber or printer have omitted a syllable, as in Meas. for Meas. iv. 2.

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"Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled eld."

'Eld' is an excellent correction of Ritson's; the 4tos read _elders_; the folio _old_.

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SC. 3. "Which short-arm'd Ignorance itself."

Mr. Dyce reads 'short-_ai_m'd.

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"Their massy irons _out_, and cutting the web."

The metre requires this natural addition.

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"He sent _back_ our messengers, and we lay by
Our appertainments, visiting of him."

The 4tos read 'He _sate_'; Theobald, who is generally followed, reads 'He _shent_; but this verb is never active in Shakespeare. Collier reads '_We_ sent.'

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"His pettish lunes, his ebbs and flows, as if."

Here 'lunes' is Hanmer's emendation of _lines_. See Mer. Wives, iv. 2.

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"As amply titled as Achilles is
By going to Achilles."

We might perhaps add _in his tent_. See preceding speech.

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"_I_ would he were a Trojan--What a vice."

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"And give him half, and for thy vigour _let_."

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"Fresh kings are come to Troy; to-morrow _morn_."