II.ii.9 (306,1) Good even, Varro] It is observable, that this good evening is before dinner; for Timon tells Alcibiades, that they will go forth again as soon as dinner’s done, which may prove that by dinner our author meant not the coena of ancient times, but the mid-day’s repast.  I do not suppose the passage corrupt:  such inadvertencies neither author nor editor can escape.

There is another remark to be made.  Varro and Isidore sink a few lines afterwards into the servants of Varro and Isidore.  Whether servants, in our author’s time, took the names of their masters, I know not.  Perhaps it is a slip of negligence.

II.ii.47 (308,4) Enter Apemantus and a Fool] I suspect some scene to be lost, in which the entrance of the fool, and the page that follows him, was prepared by some introductory dialogue, in which the audience was informed that they were the fool and page of Phrynia, Timandra, or some other courtesan, upon the knowledge of which depends the greater part of the ensuing jocularity.

II.ii.60-66 (309,4) Poor rogues] This is said so abruptly, that I am inclined to think it misplaced, and would regulate the passage thus: 

Caph. Where’s the fool now? Apem. He last ask’d the question. All. What are we, Apemantus? Apem. Asses. All. Why? Apem. That you ask me what you are, and do not know yourselves.  Poor rogues’, and usurers’ men! bawds between gold and want!  Speak, &c.

Thus every word will have its proper place.  It is likely that the passage transposed was forgot in the copy, and inserted in the margin, perhaps a little beside the proper place, which the transcriber wanting either skill or care to observe, wrote it where it now stands.

II.ii.71 (309,5) She’s e’en setting on water to scald] The old name for the disease got at Corinth was the brenning, and a sense of scalding is one of its first symptoms.

II.ii.117 (311,7) with two stones more than’s artificial one] Meaning the celebrated philosopher’s stone, which was in those times much talked of.  Sir Thomas Smith was one of those who lost considerable sums in seeking of it.

II.ii.152 (312,9) Though you hear now, yet now’s too late a time] [Warburton objected to this, an emendation by Hanmer] I think Hanmer right, and have received his emendation.

Il.ii.155 (313,1) and at length/How goes our reckoning?] [W:  Hold good our] It is common enough, and the commentator knows it is common to propose interrogatively, that of which neither the speaker nor the hearer has any doubt.  The present reading may therefore stand.

II.ii.171 (314,2) a wasteful cock] [i.e. a cockloft, a garret.  And a wasteful cock, signifies a garret lying in waste, neglected, put to no use.  HANMER.] Hanmer’s explanation is received by Dr. Warburton, yet I think them both apparently mistaken.  A wasteful cock is a cock or pipe with a turning stopple running to waste.  In this sense, both the terms have their usual meaning; but I know not that cock is ever used for cockloft, or wasteful for lying in waste, or that lying in waste is at all a phrase.