"If it be that or any that was hers."
Both 4to and folio read 'it was hers'; the 2nd folio 'if it was hers.' It has been justly observed that the printer took yt (the abbreviation of that) for it.
"Like to the Pontic sea,
Whose icy current and compulsive course
Ne'er keeps retiring ebb, but keeps due on."
The first 'keeps' was plainly produced, in the usual way, by the second. Pope read feels, which was afterwards found in 4to 1630, and is now generally received. Southern had read knows, which seems equally good; and the same is the reading of Collier's folio. I doubt much, however, if the original word was not makes, which I have given, corresponding with 'keeps' in not personifying. Feels is evidently a conjecture in 4to 1630, as well as by Pope, as having some resemblance to 'keeps'; but in these cases no resemblance need be sought. (See Introd. p. [65].) For 'icy' Singer reads yesty, most needlessly.
Sc. 4.
"A frank one.—You may, indeed, say so."