Steevens's reprint has 'reputed'—an error which seems to have been the source of the statement that some copies of the Quarto have that reading.
Note IX.
III. 3. 120. In Capell's copy of the Quarto there are traces of what appeared to us at first to be an imperfect letter at the end of the word 'reuerb'rate.' On referring, however, to the Duke of Devonshire's copy, and to the two in the British Museum, we are inclined to believe that the apparently imperfect letter is in reality a lead.
Note X.
III. 3. 123-128. The Quarto has,
'I was much rap't in this,
And apprehended here immediately,
Th' vnknowne Aiax, heauens what a man is there?
A very horse, that has he knowes not what
Nature what things there are.
Most obiect in regard, and deere in vse,' &c.
The first Folio gives,
'I was much rapt in this,
And apprehended here immediately:
The vnknowne Aiax;
Heauens what a man is there? a very Horse,
That has he knowes not what. Nature, what things there are.
Most abiect in regard, and deare in vse.'
The later Folios omitted the stop between 'what' and 'Nature,' which misled Rowe, who in his first edition read:
'That as he knows not Nature, what things are' &c.