To whom I am subdued, are but light to me."
For 'nor' Steevens read or; we might also read and or nay; but perhaps it is as it was written. For 'are,' too, the proper word would be were.
Act II.
Sc. 1.
"Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause
Of joy:—so have we all; for our escape," etc.
I make the transposition of "So have we all—of joy," in the second line boldly; for surely neither Shakespeare nor any other writer would put a parenthesis between a noun and its genitive. Gonzalo is speaking quite calmly, and without any perturbation. We have an exactly similar printer's error in
"Add more,
From thine invention, offers."