Chapter LXXXV: Act I: SC. 2. "Well, I cannot last for ever."

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"And so both the degrees prevent my curses."

Collier's folio has _diseases_ for 'degrees.'

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SC. 3. "Yes, if this present quality of war...."

There may be a line lost here; I make in preference an aposiopesis.

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"The plot of situation, and the model."

I read _draw_ or 'and _draw_' for 'and.'

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"In fewer offices, at least desist."

Capell proposed 'at _last_.'

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"Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost."

For 'cost' we should perhaps read _house_ or some such word; yet in Son. xiv. _cost_ seems to be used in the sense of costly edifice.

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"They that, when Richard lived, would have him die,
Are now become enamour'd on his grave."

It might be better to read '_Thou_, would_est_,' and 'Ar_t_,' to accord with the rest of the speech.

ACT II.

SC. 3. "Threw many a northern look, to see his father
Bring up his powers, but he did long in vain."

I suspect that the poet wrote _look_, not 'long.'

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SC. 4. "Feel, masters, how I shake."

From Doll's reply, and the fact of Falstaff's being the only man present, I incline to think that we should read _mistress_ for 'masters.' See on Tam. of Shr. i. 2.

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"Se fortuna me tormenta, _ben_ sperato me contenta."

By simply adding _ben_ we get rid of all difficulty without altering the text, as is usually done.

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"And, sweetheart, lie thou there."

So Cavalier Shift in Jonson's Every Man out, etc. iii. 1, says to his rapier "No, _my dear_, I will not be divorced from thee."

ACT III.

SC. 1. "With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds."

What the poet seems to mean is, that the billows though hung in the clouds, would not adhere to them, on account of their slippery nature, but fell back into the sea. _Shrouds_, the reading of Collier's folio, seems poor and trivial.

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"Then, happy low, lie down."

For 'low, lie down,' Warburton read _lowly clown_. But it is of a ship-boy the poet is speaking, and he would hardly make so sudden a transition.