This passage, among many others, may pass without change. The genuine reading is not marrows, veins, but marrows, vines: the sense is this; O nature! cease to produce men, ensear thy womb; but if thou wilt continue to produce them, at least cease to pamper them; dry up thy marrows, on which they fatten with unctuous morsels, thy vines, which give them liquorish draughts, and thy plow-torn leas. Here are effects corresponding with causes, liquorish draughts with vines, and unctuous morsels with marrows, and the old reading literally preserved.
IV.iii.209 (363,3) the cunning of a carper] Cunning here seems to signify counterfeit appearance.
IV.ii.223 (364,4) moist trees] Hanmer reads very elegantly,
—moss'd trees.
IV.iii.37 (364,5)
Tim. Always a villain's office, or a fool's.
Dost please thyself in't?
Apem. Ay.
Tim. What! a knave too?]
Such was Dr. Warburton's first conjecture ["and know't too">[, but afterwards he adopted Sir T. Hanmer's conjecture,