Act IV Sc. 2
“Your husband is in his old lunes again.”
The folio has lines. Theobald made the correction. See W. T. ii. 2.
“Good gentlemen, let him not strike the old woman.”
The negative was added in the 2nd folio.
Sc. 4
“You say he has been thrown into the rivers.”
It might be better to read see for ‘say.’
“That silk will I go buy. And in that time.”
With Mr. Dyce, I adopt Theobald’s reading of tire for ‘time,’ as best suited to the context.
“And he my husband best of all affects.”
If ‘husband’ be the subject to ‘affects,’ as I think he is, we should read him. See Introd. p. 52.
Sc. 5
“Conceal them or thou diest.”
Collier’s folio for ‘or’ reads and; but the text is right. Simple had used ‘conceal’ in the sense of reveal, and the Host repeats his word.
Sc. 6
“The mirth whereof’s so larded with my matter.”