Chapter XLVII: Act III

SC. 1. "Good Margaret, run thee _in_ to the parlour."

Pope read '_in_to.'

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"Whisper her ear and tell her I and Ursula."

There has probably been an omission of _in_ before 'her.'

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"No, not to be so odd and from all fashions."

The proper word is _nor_, as Capell also saw.

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SC. 2. "Well, every one can master a grief, but he that has it."

Both folio and 4to read 'can_not_' for 'can,' Pope's correction.

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"As a German from the waist downward all slops, and a Spaniard from
the hip upward no doublet."

This is only in 4to, 1600. We should probably read, as Mason also did, '_all_ doublet.'

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"He is no fool for fancy as you would have it to appear he is."

For 'fool' we should perhaps read _food_.

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"She shall be buried with her face upwards."

That is, like everybody else. Theobald read _heels_ for face, quoting,

"Whilst I have meat and drink love cannot starve me;
For if I die of the first fit I am unhappy,
And worthy _to be buried with my heels upward_;"
(Fletcher, Wild-goose Chase, i. 3)

while Mason proposed _feet_. But Singer says, referring to Winter's Tale, iv. 3, that the meaning is, she shall be buried _in her lover's arms_; and I think there _is_ a waggish allusion to nuptial joys.

ACT IV.

SC. 1. "Out on thee, seeming! I will write against it,
You seem to me as Dian in her orb."

For 'thee' we should, I think, read _thy_ or _this_, as they were pronounced alike, and for 'seem' _seem'd_, for the same reason.' (See Introd. p. 52.) Pope also read _thy_, and Hanmer _seem'd_.

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"But if all aim but this be levell'd false."

I would read _in_; for 'but,' suggested by 'But,' makes nonsense. I have, however, made no change in my Edition.