IV.ii.246 (258,1) He was paid for that] HANMER reads,

  He has paid for that:—­

rather plausibly than rightly. Paid is for punished.  So JONSON,

  “Twenty things more, my friend, which you know due,
  For which, or pay me quickly, or I’ll pay you.”

(see 1765, VII, 356, 3)

IV.ii.247 (258,2) reverence,/(That angel of the world)] Reverence, or due regard to subordination, is the power that keeps peace and order in the world.

IV.ii.268 (259,4) The scepter, learning, physic, must/ All follow this, and come to dust] The poet’s sentiment seems to have been this.  All human excellence is equally the subject to the stroke of death:  neither the power of kings, nor the science of scholars, nor the art of those whose immediate study is the prolongation of life, can protect then from the final destiny of man. (1773)

IV.ii.272 (260,5) Fear not slander, censure rash] Perhaps, Fear not slander’s censure rash.

IV.ii.275 (260,6) Consign to thee] Perhaps, Consign to this.  And in the former stanza, for all follow this, we might read, all follow thee.

IV.ii.280 (260,7) Both. Quiet consummation have;/ And renowned be thy grave!] For the obsequies of Fidele, a song was written by my unhappy friend, Mr. William Collins of Chichester, a man of uncommon learning and abilities.  I shall give it a place at the end in honour of his memory.

IV.ii.315 (262,1) Conspired with] The old copy reads thus,

  —­thou
  Conspir’d with that irregulous divel, Cloten.

I suppose it should be,

  Conspir’d with th’ irreligious devil, Cloten.

IV.ii.346 (263,2) Last night the very gods shew’d me a vision] [W:  warey] Of this meaning I know not any example, nor do I see any need of alteration.  It was no common dream, but sent from the very gods, or the gods themselves.

IV.ii.363 (264,3)

  who was he,
  That, otherwise than noble nature did,
  Hath alter’d that good figure?]

Here are many words upon a very slight debate.  The sense is not much cleared by either critic [Theobald and Warburton].  The question is asked, not about a body, but a picture, which is not very apt to grow shorter or longer.  To do a picture, and a picture is well done, are standing phrases; the question therefore is, Who has altered this picture, so as to make it otherwise than nature did it.

IV.ii.389 (266,5) these poor pickaxes] Meaning her fingers.

IV.iii (266,1) Cymbeline’s palace] This scene is omitted against all authority by Sir T. HANMER.  It is indeed of no great use in the progress of the fable, yet it makes a regular preparation for the next act.

IV.iii.22 (267,3) our jealousy/Does yet depend] My suspicion is yet undetermined; if I do not condemn you, I likewise have not acquitted you.  We now say, the cause is depending.