Act V Sc. 1
“So tell your cousin, and bring me word again
What he will do.”
Sc. 2
“Suspicion, all our lives, shall be stuck full of eyes.”
The word in 4tos and folio is Supposition, which may be right; the correction is Pope’s.
“Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so.”
This is so abrupt and prosaic that I think we should read ‘pray go you.’
“Upon his follies; never did I hear
Of any prince so wild a liberty.”
So the 4tos. The folio reads ‘at liberty’; Capell libertine, which is the reading usually adopted, even by the Cambridge editors. In Com. of Err. (i. 2) we have “such like liberties of sin” of persons.
“If life did ride upon a dial’s point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour...
An if we live, we live to tread on kings.”
The aposiopesis here is in character with Hotspur, but there may be a line or more lost.
Sc. 3
“What is thy name that in the battle thus.”
“The King hath many marching in his coats.”
March is here, as so frequently in Spenser and others, simply the French marcher.
“In which the Majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometimes march.”
Ham. i. 1.
Collier’s folio reads masking; but it was only the face that was masked. Gifford, without hesitation, read march’d in
“Let fury then disperse these clouds, in which
I long have mask’d disguised.”
Mass. Bondman, v. 3.
“I will assay thee, and so defend thyself.”