It was left to the 3rd folio to supply the needful her.
"Thou seest it will not curl by nature."
Theobald's indubitable emendation of 'cool my nature' of the folio.
"In a flame-coloured stock."
This is Pope's correction of 'dam'd coloured' of the folio. Knight reads damask; Collier's folio dun, which is very bad indeed. We meet in other dramatists with straw-, peach-, carnation-colour'd stocks. It is perhaps impossible to recover the right word, yet I see little objection to flame-colour; for if we suppose flame pronounced as in Latin and French (see Introd. p. [74]), flame-coloured might easily become 'damn'd (pr. dam) coloured' in the printer's mind. In confirmation we have elsewhere in the folio 'scar-crow,' not 'scare-crow,' and other like words.
Sc. 4.
"Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound;