Steevens (1793) follows Capell in the first two lines, reading in the third:
'And I amongst the Lords be thought a fool.'
Mr. Staunton suggests that the passage once stood:
'So I may prove
An argument of laughter to the rest,
And amongst lords be thought a fool.'
Mr. Dyce, in his second edition proposes the following arrangement:
'That I'll requite it last? No: so it may prove
An argument of laughter to the rest,
And amongst lords I be thought a fool.'
Note XII.
III. 5. 14-18. The first Folio, followed substantially by the rest, has:
'He is a Man (setting his Fate aside) of comely Vertues,
Nor did he soyle the fact with Cowardice,
(And Honour in him, which buyes out his fault)
But &c.'
Rowe arranged the lines as follows: