His note on the use of invisible, in Act V. Sc. 7., is also excellent:
"Death having prayed upon the reduced body of the king, quits it, and now invisible, has laid siege to the mind."
I have elsewhere stated my opinion that "all Jackson's emendations are bad." I should have added that some few are very plausible and specious, and worthy of consideration. I will mention one in King John, Act IV. Sc. 2. Pembroke says,—
"If, what in rest you have, in right you hold," &c.
Now, rest and right are no antithesis, nor are they allied in meaning. Jackson inserts a t' between in and rest—
"If, what int'rest you have in right you hold," &c.—
which he supports by admirable parallels from the same play. I will cite one more example of Jackson's sagacity, from his notes on 1 Henry IV., Act I. Sc. 3. Hotspur says,—
"Never did bare and rotten policy," &c.
Jackson reads,—
"Never did barren rotten policy," &c.