"Go to them; your considerate stone am I."
"Truths would be tales only,
Where now half-tales be truths."
Hanmer read 'but tales'; Steevens 'as tales'; Capell 'then be tales.' We might also read 'mere tales.'
"Or else he seeks us out.—Where lies he now?—
About the Mount Misenum.—What's his strength?—
By land great and increasing; but by sea
He is an absolute master."