The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays

ACT I.

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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.