Pan. You shall see.
Cre. If he do, the rich shall have more]
[W: rich] I wonder why the commentator should think any emendation necessary, since his own sense is fully expressed by the present reading. Hanmer appears not to have understood the passage. That to give the nod signifies to set a mark of folly, I do not know; the allusion is to the word noddy, which, as now, did, in our author's time, and long before, signify, a silly fellow, and may, by its etymology, signify likewise full of nods. Cressid means, that a noddy shall have more nods. Of such remarks as these is a comment to consist?
I.ii.260 (22,3) money to boot] So the folio. The old quarto, with more force, Give an eye to boot. (rev. 1778, IX, 25, 1)
I.ii.285 (22,4) upon my wit to defend my wiles] So read both the copies) yet perhaps the author wrote,
Upon my wit to defend my will.
The terms wit and will were, in the language of that time, put often in opposition.
I.ii.300 (23,5) At your own house; there he unarms him] [These necessary words added from the quarto edition. POPE.] The words added are only, there he unarms him.
I.ii.313 (23,6) joy's soul lies in the doing] So read both the old editions, for which the later editions have poorly given,
—the soul's joy lies in doing.