Sc. 4.

"So by a roaring tempest, on the flood

A whole armado of convicted sail," etc.

For 'convicted' I read conflicted, i.e. dashed, or dashing together. We have "conflicting wind and rain" (Lear, iii. 1), "conflicting elements" (Tim. iv. 3). It seems more probable than any of the various corrections proposed.


"No scope of Nature, no distempered day."

I adopt Pope's reading, 'scape.


"Strong reasons make strong actions."

So 2nd folio properly reads; the 1st has 'strange actions.'