Act IV Sc. 1
“Belike you thought our love would last too long
If it were chain’d together.”
For ‘it’ I think we should read we.
Sc. 2
“First she denied you had in him no right.”
This structure seems strange, but it was in use:—
“You may deny that God was not the cause.”
Rich. III. i. 3.
“Fortune forbid my outside have not charm’d her.”
Twelfth Night, ii. 2.
“Here go. The desk! the purse! Sweet, now make haste.”
For ‘Sweet,’ which is rather free in the mouth of Dromio, Collier’s folio reads Swift; we might also conjecture Speed. The truth, however, seems to be that mistress has been omitted after ‘Sweet.’
“A devil in an everlasting garment hath him.”
There is something evidently lost here, riming with ‘steel.’ It may have been by the heels, or laid by the heels, alluding to ‘Tartar Limbo’; but still, or at his will, seems preferable.
“A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough.”
For ‘fairy’ Theobald proposed fury, and we have “O, my good lord, deliver me from these furies” (i.e. bailiffs).—Massinger, Fatal Dowry, v. 1. “Fiends, fairies, hags that fight in beds of steel.”—Peel, Battle of Aleazar, where Mr. Dyce reads furies. In Jonson’s Poetaster (iii. 1) the Lictors are termed furies.
Sc. 3
“Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, or bespeak a long spoon.”
For ‘or’ we should read and, as usual. Mr. Dyce reads so.
Sc. 4
“In verity you did; my bones bear witness
That since have felt the vigour of his rage.”
The change of pronouns is so frequent that I think it would be simpler to read your for ‘his’ than as is usually done make ‘my bones,’ etc. an aside.