Act IV Sc. 1
“And the foolish chroniclers of the age found it was—Hero of Sestos.”
The use of the word ‘found’ proves that Hanmer’s reading coroners is right. In Twelfth Night (i. 5) the coroner is said to sit on a drowned man.
“That cannot make her fault her husband’s occasion.”
This seems to mean occasioned, caused by her husband. Or we may read, with Hanmer, accusation. I find I have done so, but doubt if I was justified in so doing.
“I’ll go find a shadow and sigh till he come.—And I’ll go sleep.”
Both sense and metre seem to demand this addition.
Sc. 3
“My gentle Phebe did bid me give you this.”
Editors, myself included, follow 2nd folio, and omit ‘did.’ I think we are wrong.
“Art thou god to shepherd turn’d.”
I think we should read ‘a god.’
“Like a ripe sister, but the woman low.”
The necessary insertion was made in the 2nd folio.
“As how I came into that desert place.”
There may have been, as Malone thought, a line lost here; but I rather think it is an aposiopesis.