[51] [Former edits., on.]
[52] This is hardly intelligible, as it stands here and in the third edition. In the two earlier copies, Porcia says to Flora on entering—
"If thou lov'st me, get him away quickly
Before my brother come, and give him this.
[She gives Flora a letter."
—Collier. [There does not appear to be any obscurity here. In a subsequent scene, Ernesto delivers the letter handed to him by Flora from Camilla, whom he mistakes for Porcia.]
[53] [Of himself seems to be used here in the sense of by himself, per se, standing alone.]
[54] The song, and its introduction, were new in the copy of 1671.—Collier.
[ACT II.]
Scene.—The city of Seville.