V.iv.45 (281,5) That from me my Posthumus ript] The old copy reads,
That from me _was_ Posthumus ript.
Perhaps we should read,
That from _my womb_ Posthumus ript,
Came crying 'mongst his foes.
V.iv.146 (284,7)
'Tis still a dream; or else such stuff, as madmen
Tongue, and brain not: either both or nothing:
Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such
As sense cannot untie. Be what it is,
The action of my life is like it]
The meaning, which is too thin to be easily caught, I take to be this:
_This is a dream or madness, or both--or nothing--but whether it be a
speech without consciousness_, as in a dream, _or a speech
unintelligible_, as in madness, be it as it is, _it is like my course of
life_. We might perhaps read,
Whether _both, or nothing_--
V.iv,164 (285,8) sorry that you have paid too much, and sorry that you
are paid too much] _Tavern bills_, says the gaoler, _are the sadness of
parting, as the procuring of mirth--you depart reeling with too much
drink; sorry that you have paid too much, and_--what? _sorry that you
are paid too much_. Where is the opposition? I read, _And_ merry _that
you are paid_ so _much_. I take the second _paid_ to be _paid_, for
_appaid, filled, satiated_.
V.iv.171 (286,9) debtor and creditor] For an _accounting book_.
V.iv.188 (286,1) jump the after-enquiry] That is, _venture_ at it
without thought.
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