Note IV.
I. 2. 53-58. The Folios print Apemantus's speech as prose down to 'Timon'; then as four lines of verse:
'Heere's that which is too weake to be a sinner,
Honest water, which nere left man i' th' mire:
This &c.'
The second has 'mird' for 'mire.' The third and fourth follow the first. Pope, whose arrangement we follow, prints as prose down to 'mire.' Capell prints the whole as verse thus:
'Flow this way!
A most brave fellow! he keeps his tides well. Timon,
Those healths will make thee, and thy state, look ill,'
following the Folios in the next four lines.
Steevens adopts this arrangement omitting 'most' in the second line. Sidney Walker would divide the lines thus:
'Flow this way! a brave fellow!
He keeps his tides well. Timon, these healths will make
Thee, and thy state, look ill. Here's that which is
Too weak to be a sinner, honest water,
Which ne'er left man i' th' mire: &c.'