IV.iii.41 (491,4)
_Des._ "The poor soul sat singing by a sycamore-tree,
"Sing all a green willow]
This song, in two parts, is printed in a late collection of old ballads;
the lines preserved here differ somewhat from the copy discovered by the
ingenious collector.
IV.iii.55 (491,5)
_Des._ "I call'd my love false love; but what said
"he then?
"Sing willow, &c.]
This couplet is not in the ballad, which is the complaint, not of a
woman forsaken, but of a man rejected. These lines were probably added
when it was accommodated to a woman.
IV.iii.94 (493,6) our former having] Our former allowance of experience.
IV.iii.107 (493,7) heaven me such usage send] --_heaven me such_ uses
_send_,] Such is the reading of the folio, and of the subsequent
editions; but the old quarto has,
--_such_ usage _send_.--
_Usage_ is an old word for _custom_, and, I think, better than _uses_.
V.i.11 (494,1) I have rubb'd this young quat _almost to the sense_] In
some editions,
_I've rubb'd this young_ gnat _almost to the sense,
And he grows angry_.]
This is a passage much controverted among the editors. Sir T. Hanner
reads _quab_, a _gudgeon_; not that a gudgeon can be _rubbed_ to much
_sense_, but that a man grossly deceived is often called a _gudgeon_.
Mr. Upton reads _quail_, which he proves, by much learning, to be a very
choleric bird.
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