AS YOU LIKE IT.
Act I.
Sc. 1.
"As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion.
He bequeathed me, by will, but poor a thousand crowns, and as thou sayest," etc.
The 2nd folio reads 'a poor thousand,' but the metre is in favour of the original reading, and we meet "What poor an instrument" (Ant. and Cleop. v. 2). It is really surprising to see with what pertinacity editors reject the necessary word He, first supplied by Blackstone.
"Or to speak more properly stays me here at home."
Warburton read stys, as in Temp. i. 2, which is certainly more forcible; but Orlando could not be said to be 'sty'd,' like Caliban.