Act III Sc. 1
“Good Margaret, run thee in to the parlour.”
Pope read ‘into.’
“Whisper her ear and tell her I and Ursula.”
There has probably been an omission of in before ‘her.’
“No, not to be so odd and from all fashions.”
The proper word is nor, as Capell also saw.
Sc. 2
“Well, every one can master a grief, but he that has it.”
Both folio and 4to read ‘cannot’ for ‘can,’ Pope’s correction.
“As a German from the waist downward all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip upward no doublet.”
This is only in 4to, 1600. We should probably read, as Mason also did, ‘all doublet.’
“He is no fool for fancy as you would have it to appear he is.”
For ‘fool’ we should perhaps read food.
“She shall be buried with her face upwards.”
That is, like everybody else. Theobald read heels for face, quoting,
“Whilst I have meat and drink love cannot starve me;
For if I die of the first fit I am unhappy,
And worthy to be buried with my heels upward;”
(Fletcher, Wild-goose Chase, i. 3)
while Mason proposed feet. But Singer says, referring to Winter’s Tale, iv. 3, that the meaning is, she shall be buried in her lover’s arms; and I think there is a waggish allusion to nuptial joys.