King Henry IV — Part II
Act I Sc. 2
“Well, I cannot last for ever.”
“And so both the degrees prevent my curses.”
Collier’s folio has diseases for ‘degrees.’
Sc. 3
“Yes, if this present quality of war....”
There may be a line lost here; I make in preference an aposiopesis.
“The plot of situation, and the model.”
I read draw or ’and draw’ for ‘and.’
“In fewer offices, at least desist.”
Capell proposed ‘at last.’
“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.
“They that, when Richard lived, would have him die,
Are now become enamour’d on his grave.”
It might be better to read ‘Thou, wouldest,’ and ‘Art,’ to accord with the rest of the speech.