The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays
ACT I.
SC. 2. "Well, I cannot last _for_ ever."
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"And so both the degrees prevent my curses."
Collier's folio has _diseases_ for 'degrees.'
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SC. 3. "Yes, if this present quality of war...."
There may be a line lost here; I make in preference an aposiopesis.
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"The plot of situation, and the model."
I read _draw_ or 'and _draw_' for 'and.'
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"In fewer offices, at least desist."
Capell proposed 'at _last_.'
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"Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost."
For 'cost' we should perhaps read _house_ or some such word; yet in Son. xiv. _cost_ seems to be used in the sense of costly edifice.
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"They that, when Richard lived, would have him die, Are now become enamour'd on his grave."
It might be better to read '_Thou_, would_est_,' and 'Ar_t_,' to accord with the rest of the speech.