ON A PASSAGE IN "CYMBELINE," ACT IV. SC. 2.
It is so usual with Malone and some other commentators on Shakspeare to impute the errors of the printer to the poet, that we often find the most glaring instances of false grammar, and anomalies of construction, laid to his charge, and defended as the practice of the time; and as his own practice!
The following passage is an instance in point:
"Gui. Why, he but sleeps;
If he be gone, he'll make his grave a bed;
With female fairies will his tomb be haunted,
And worms will not come to thee."
Steevens with reason says:
"This change from the second person to the third is so violent, that I cannot help imputing it to the players, transcribers, or printers."