Act III Sc. 1
“And make them men of note?—Do you note men?—that most are affected to these.”
I agree with the proposed reading of me for the second ‘men.’
“No salve in the male, sir.”
Tyrwhitt’s most happy emendation ‘in them all’ gives in my opinion, the true reading.
“And stayed the odds by adding four.”
Collier’s folio, which Singer follows, reads making, which may be right, but is not necessary.
“Sirrah Costard, marry, I will enfranchise thee.”
Costard’s reply shows that marry, added by Collier’s folio, had been omitted.
“I give thee thy liberty, set thee free from durance.”
The same folio supplies free. Singer received both corrections.
“Than whom no mortal so magnificent.”
‘So’ should be more, or rather moe; but it may be as the poet wrote it.
“This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid.”
The original editions have ‘This signior Junio’s giant-dwarf,’ which possibly may be right, there being an allusion to some poem or tale now lost. The text is the correction of Hanmer.
“What, I! I love! I sue! I seek a wife!”
“A whitely wanton with a velvet brow.”
Rosaline was dark, so Collier’s folio reads witty for ‘whitely,’ and the Cambridge editors wightly; yet the poet may have been merely oblivious.
“Well, I will love, will write, sigh, pray, sue, groan.”