Act V Sc. 1
“A bawbling vessel was he captain of.”
We should perhaps read ‘bauble-vessel,’ as in Tr. and Cr. i. 3.
“Then he’s a rogue and a passy-measures panyn.”
The 2nd folio, which is generally followed, reads pavin, which is a dance, and so could hardly be used of a man.
“First told me thou wast mad. Then cam’st in smiling,
And in such forms which here were presuppos’d
Upon thee in the letter.”
For ‘Then’ I read ‘Thou.’ (Introd. p. 68.) Theobald read ‘cam’st thou.’ In the next line we should probably read as for ‘which.’
“Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister.”
We might read ‘In the meantime,’ but there is no necessity whatever for change.