Chapter XVII: Act III

SC. 1. "And make them men of note?--Do you note men?--that most are
affected to these."

I agree with the proposed reading of _me_ for the second 'men.'

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"No salve in the male, sir."

Tyrwhitt's most happy emendation 'in them all' gives in my opinion, the true reading.

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"And stayed the odds by adding four."

Collier's folio, which Singer follows, reads _making_, which may be right, but is not necessary.

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"Sirrah Costard, _marry_, I will enfranchise thee."

Costard's reply shows that _marry_, added by Collier's folio, had been omitted.

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"I give thee thy liberty, set thee _free_ from durance."

The same folio supplies _free_. Singer received both corrections.

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"Than whom no mortal so magnificent."

'So' should be _more_, or rather _moe_; but it may be as the poet wrote it.

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"This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid."

The original editions have 'This _signior Junio's_ giant-dwarf,' which possibly may be right, there being an allusion to some poem or tale now lost. The text is the correction of Hanmer.

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"What, _I_! I love! I sue! I seek a wife!"

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"A whitely wanton with a velvet brow."

Rosaline was dark, so Collier's folio reads _witty_ for 'whitely,' and the Cambridge editors _wightly_; yet the poet may have been merely oblivious.

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"Well, I will love, _will_ write, sigh, pray, sue, groan."