Mr. Dyce reads 'short-aim'd.


"Their massy irons out, and cutting the web."

The metre requires this natural addition.


"He sent back our messengers, and we lay by

Our appertainments, visiting of him."

The 4tos read 'He sate'; Theobald, who is generally followed, reads 'He shent; but this verb is never active in Shakespeare. Collier reads 'We sent.'


"His pettish lunes, his ebbs and flows, as if."