"And may direct his course as it please himself."


Act III.

Sc. 1.

"Too late he died, that might have kept that title."

Surely it was too soon or too early. This may, perhaps, be regarded as an instance of the substitution of a contrary term. In the Faerie Queen, however, we have "Saying, that harlot she too lately knew" (i. 3. 25). "And knightly worth which he too late did try" (Ib. iii. 9. 25). See Index, s. v. [Too].


"I pray you, gentle uncle, give me this dagger."

We might also read 'give to me'; but it would sound rather stiff. The usual reading is 'uncle then.'