For 'aid' Mason and Collier's folio read aim.


Act III.

Sc. 1.

"As true as I believe you think them false."

The poet probably wrote 'you'll' think.


"I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;

For Grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop."

Hanmer reads stout for 'stoop,' but I see no need of change. We talk of a person being bowed to the earth with grief, and this is what the poet meant. 'Owner' was used of one who simply had, as "But like the owner of a foul disease" (Ham. iv. 1).