Act II Sc. 1
“As the other in music and in mathematics.”
“But, gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger.”
Perhaps for ‘sir’ we should read signior, and for ‘walk’ look.
“Sirrah!
Lead these gentlemen to my daughters, and tell them both.”
So we should arrange the passage.
“No such jade as you, if me you mean.”
We might read ‘Not such a jade.’ Mr. Dyce reads, after Collier’s folio, ‘as bear you,’ which is better, and which I follow.
“‘Tis in his tail.—‘Tis in his tongue.—Whose tongue?”
“The gain I seek is quiet me the match.”
For ‘me’ Rowe properly read in.
“Myself am struck in years I must confess.”
There must be a line at least lost after this.
“To set foot under thy table. Tut, a toy.”
“Do get their children; but in this case of wooing
A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning.”
Rime demands for ‘cunning’ the reading of Steevens, doing. Wooing and doing have already rimed in this scene. (See also Tr. and Cr. i. 2, ad fin.)