This judicious emendation from thou thyself, &c., claimed by one learned gentleman and adopted by another, is the original property of Sir Thomas Hanmer.
Scene 2. Page 168.
Gui. With female fairies will his tomb be haunted.
i. e. harmless and protecting spirits, not fairies of a mischievous nature.
Scene 2. Page 169.
Gui. And worms will not come to thee.
Mr. Steevens imputes great violence to this change of person, and would read "come to him;" but there is no impropriety in Guiderius's sudden address to the body itself. It might indeed be ascribed to our author's careless manner, of which an instance like the present occurs at the beginning of the next act, where Posthumus says,
"... you married ones,
If each of you would take this course, how many
Must murder wives much better than themselves."
Scene 2. Page 169.
Arv. ... the ruddock would,
With charitable bill,—bring thee all this;
Yea and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none
To winter-ground thy corse.