[Imagine me,
Gentle spectators, that I now may be
In fair Bohemia]
Time is every where alike. I know not whether both sense and grammar may not dictate,
—imagine we,
Gentle spectators, that_ you now may be, &c.
Let us imagine that you, who behold these scenes, are now in
Bohemia?
IV.i.29 (322,3) [Is the argument of time] Argument is the same with subject.
IV.i.32 (322,4) [He wishes earnestly you newer may] I believe this speech of time rather begins the fourth act than concludes the third.
IV.ii.21 (323,6) [and my profit therein, the heaping friendships] [W. reaping] I see not that the present reading is nonsense; the sense of heaping friendships is, though like many other of our author's, unusual, at least unusual to modern ears, is not very obscure. To be more thankful shall be my study; and my profit therein the heaping friendships. That is, I will for the future be more liberal of recompence, from which I shall receive this advantage, that as I heap benefits I shall heap friendships, as I confer favours on thee I shall increase the friendship between us.
IV.ii.35 (324,7) [but I have, missingly, noted] [W. missing him]
[Hammer; musingly noted] I see not how the sense is mended by Sir
T. Hammer's alteration, nor how is it at all changed by Dr. Warburton's.
IV.iii.3 (325,9)
[Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter pale]
Dr. Thirlby reads, perhaps rightly, certainly with much more probability, and easiness of construction;