NOTES.
Note I.
I. 3. 21-24. Pope was the first to place the words 'Thus thou ... undone' in inverted commas, and was followed substantially by all subsequent editors with the exception of those we are about to mention. Hanmer printed in italics 'This thou must do if thou have it' only, and was followed by Capell and Mr. Staunton, except that they restore the original reading 'Thus' for 'This.' Johnson proposed to read 'me' for 'it' in line 22, printing in italics the same words which Pope included in inverted commas. His reading was adopted by Rann. Dr. A. Hunter (Harry Rowe) read:
'Thou'dst have, great Glamis,
That which cries, Thus than must do, if thou have me,
And that's what rather thou dost fear to do,
Than wishest should be undone.'
Mr. Joseph Hunter (New Illustrations &c. of Shakespeare, II. p. 172) proposed to mark the words 'Thus thou must do' only as a quotation, and to read line 22 thus:
'That which cries "Thus thou must do" if thou wouldst have it.'
Note II.
II. 1. 13, 14. The first Folio reads here:
'He hath beene in vnusuall Pleasure,
And sent forth great Largesse to your Offices.'