"O you leaden messengers,
That ride upon the violent speed of fire,
Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air,
That sings with piercing, do not touch my lord!"
Such is the text of the first folio. Mr. Payne Collier, at p. 162. of his Notes and Emendations, informs us that the old corrector of his folio of 1632 reads volant for "violent," wound for "move," and still-piecing for "still-peering."
Two of these substitutions are easily shown to be correct. In the Tempest, Act III. Sc. 3., we read:
"The elements,
Of whom your swords are tempered, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemockt-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters."