Sc. 4.
"Nay, I pr'ythee, stay a little; I hope my holy humour will change."
This is the reading of the 4tos, which I prefer. The folio has 'passionate humour of mine.' The change, as Mr. Dyce says, was made by the editors on account of the statute 3 Jac. I. 21.
"If two such murderers as yourselves came to you
Would not entreat for life? As you would beg
Were you in my distress...—
Relent! no, no; 'tis cowardly and womanish."
This punctuation gives, I think, the sense of the poet; and I am happy to find I had been anticipated in it by Singer.