"I crave no more than what your highness offer'd."
So the 4tos; the folio reads 'than hath.'
"It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,
No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step."
How could the pure and gentle Cordelia suppose herself to be suspected of murder? which, moreover, accords not with the other charges she enumerates. Collier's folio reads or other for 'murder or.' I feel strongly persuaded that the poet's word was misdeed, which, if a little effaced, might easily be taken for 'murder.'
Sc. 2.
"Shall to the legitimate ... I grow, I prosper."
By pointing thus, as Rowe also did, we obviate the necessity of adopting Edwards' ingenious reading of top for 'to.'