Chapter CLIII: Act V

SC. 1. "It was a bare petition of a State
To one whom they had punish'd."

I do not well understand 'bare' here. Mason read _base_, which is not quite satisfactory.

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"Pray you, go to him.--What should I do _there_?"

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"Unheard, what then? * * *
But as a discontented friend, grief-shot."

I would supply _How, then, should I return?_

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"Good faith, I'll prove him.
Speed how it will, I shall ere long have knowledge
Of my success."

This is also the punctuation of Delius.

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"I tell you he does sit in gold."

For 'in gold' we might read _a god_: "He sits 'mongst men, like a descended god" (Cymb. i. 7). But it may be his chair of state that is meant.

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"What he would do
He sent in writing after me; what he would not
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Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions."

A line is lost between the two last lines.

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SC. 2. "For I have ever verified my friends--
Of whom he's chief--with all the size that verity
Would without lapsing suffer."

As 'verified' would seem to have been suggested by the following 'verity,' we might read, with Hanmer, _magnified_, or perhaps repeat 'amplified.'

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"Out of your gates with sighs."

As 'your' seems utterly unsuitable here, we might read _our_ or _yon_.

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SC. 3. "That, if you fail in our request, the blame
May hang upon your hardness."

Pope also saw that 'you' should be _we_.

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SC. 4. "_For_ the plebeians have got your fellow-tribune."

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SC. 5. "Holp to reap the fame
Which he did end all his."

For 'end' Rowe read _make_; Collier's folio _ear_; Singer, after a writer in Notes and Queries, reads _ear_ for 'reap,' and _reap_ for 'end.' I would read _inn_ for 'end.' "Give me leave to _inn_ the crop" (All's Well, i. 3). "All was _inned_ at last into the King's barn" (Bacon).

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"Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli."

I think Malone was right in reading _Volsces_, and I have followed him. Volscians is rarely a subst. in this play.

CYMBELINE.