Sc. 5.

"His son was but a ward two years ago.—

Good youths, i' faith!—Oh! youth's a jolly thing."

The last line is only found in 4to 1597. It is so natural and so pleasing, that I could not refrain from adopting it.


"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of Night,

Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear."

This is the reading of both 4tos and folio; yet editors have adopted the far inferior reading of the 2nd folio 'Her beauty hangs!' We have the same idea in

"Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,