Mr Collier's MS. corrector has (Shakespeare, Ed. 2, Note ad loc.):
'As his to me: but old folks seem as dead,
Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and dull as lead.'
This is not mentioned in his Notes and Emendations.
For 'many' Johnson substitutes 'marry;'
'But old folks, marry, feign as they were dead, &c.'
Note VIII.
III. 3. 38-46. Instead of the lines which he put in the margin, Pope inserted the following, copied with some alterations from the first Quarto:
'But Romeo may not, he is banished!
O father, hadst thou no strong poison mixt,
No sharp ground knife, no present means of death,
But banishment to torture me withal?'
Note IX.
III. 3. 40-43. The Quarto of 1599 reads as follows: