Collier's folio reads masking; but it was only the face that was masked. Gifford, without hesitation, read march'd in

"Let fury then disperse these clouds, in which

I long have mask'd disguised."

Mass. Bondman, v. 3.


"I will assay thee, and so defend thyself."


KING HENRY IV.—PART II.

Act I.

Sc. 2.