Act III Sc. 1
“Spit in the hole, man, and tune it again.”
“To charge true rules for old inventions.”
All are agreed to read change with 2nd folio; and as ‘old’ evidently makes no sense, Theobald read odd. With Rowe I prefer new. (See Introd. p. 66.)
Sc. 2
“Make friends, invite, and proclaim the banns.”
The 2nd folio adds yes, Malone them, Dyce guests after ‘invite’; my own conjecture was aye. Would it not be better, however, to read as I have done, “Make friends be invited, and proclaim the banns”? There is an exactly similar omission of be in All’s Well, i. 3, where there can be no doubt. We might also read simply ‘friends invited’; but I doubt, after all, if it were not best to read “Make invite friends too and proclaim the banns,” which would agree better with the character of the speaker.
“Master, master! news, and such news as you never heard of.—
Is it new and old too? how may that be?”
Is it quite evident that old has been omitted in the first line. Rowe, who is followed, prefixed it to the first ‘news.’ I think it is better with the second, as in Collier’s folio.
“Often burst, and now’s repaired with knots.”
“And ‘The Humours of forty Fancies.’”
Collier’s folio reads “The Amours or forty Fancies.”
“Were it not better I should rush in thus....”
Sense and metre demand the negative. There is, I think, a break in sense at the end of the line.
“But, sir, to her love concerneth us to add
Her father’s liking.”
So I find Tyrwhitt also correctly completed the line.
“Signior Gremio, how came you from the church.”
“I’ll tell you, sir Lucentio. When the priest.”
For ‘sir’ we should most certainly read signior. (See on Induction, sc. 1.)
“Having no other reason, etc.”
This speech is prose in the 1st folio; in the 2nd it is arranged as verse, but not well. In my Edition I have rearranged it, as I find Reed also had done.
“My household stuff, my field, my barn, my granary.”
S. Walker conjectured my grange; the Cambridge editors my garner.