Note VI.
II. 3. 130-133. Both the Quarto and the Folios put a full stop at report, a colon at war, and a full stop or colon at giant: a punctuation which was followed substantially by Rowe and Pope. Theobald first put a comma at report and inverted commas before Bring, forgetting, however, to mark the end of the quotation. Hanmer printed the line Bring ... war in italics, and Johnson put the whole passage Bring ... giant in inverted commas. Subsequent editors have followed him in marking the quotation thus. We have done the like, though with some doubt as to whether Hanmer's view be not preferable.
Note VII.
II. 3. 187, sqq. Rowe, in this passage, followed the Folios. Pope, too, left the preposterously long line '(As amply titled, as Achilles is,) by going to Achilles:' but in the following, altered 'fat already, pride' to 'pride, already fat.' Theobald followed Pope.
Hanmer reads:
'As amply titled as Achilles' is,
By going to Achilles: for that were
But to inlard his pride, already fat.'
Johnson first adopted the reading and arrangement given in the text, followed by Capell, except that the latter gave, like Hanmer, Achilles' (with an apostrophe) in the first line.
Note VIII.
III. 2. 21. Capell's copy of the Quarto has distinctly 'repured,' though Capell, usually so accurate in his collation, omitted to notice that it differed from the Folio. The same is the reading of the copy in the Duke of Devonshire's Library, and of two copies in the British Museum, one of which formerly belonged to Steevens.