III.iii.197 (86,5) Knows almost every grain of Pluto’s gold] For this elegant line the quarto has only,

  Knows almost every thing.

III.iii.201 (86,7) (with which relation/Durst never meddle)] There is a secret administration of affairs, which no history was ever able to discover.

III.iii.230 (87,9)

  Omission to do what is necessary
  Seals a commission to a blank of danger]

By neglecting our duty we commission or enable that danger of dishonour, which could not reach us before, to lay hold upon us.

III.iii.254 (88,1) with a politic regard] With a sly look.

IV.i.11 (91,1) During all question of the gentle truce] I once thought to read,

  During all quiet of the gentle truce.

But I think question means intercourse, interchange of conversation.

IV.i.36 (92,4) His purpose meets you] I bring you his meaning and his orders.

IV.i.65 (93,6)

  Both merits pois’d, each weighs no less nor more,
  But he as he, the heavier for a whore]

I read,

  But he as he, each heavier for a whore.

Heavy is taken both for weighty, and for sad or miserable.  The quarto reads,

  But he as he, the heavier for a whore.

I know not whether the thought is not that of a wager.  It must then be read thus: 

  But he as he.  Which heavier for a whore?

That is, for a whore staked down, which is the heavier.

IV.i.78 (94,7) We’ll not commend what we intend to sell] I believe the meaning is only this:  though you practise the buyer’s art, we will not practise the seller’s.  We intend to sell Helen dear, yet will not commend her.

IV.ii.62 (96,4) My matter is so rash] My business is so hasty and so abrupt.

IV.ii.74 (97,6) the secrets of neighbour Pandar] [Pope had emended the Folio’s “secrets of nature” to the present reading] Mr. Pope’s reading is in the old quarto.  So great is the necessity of collation.

IV.iv.3 (99,1) The grief] The folio reads,

  The grief is fine, full perfect, that I taste,
  And no less in a sense as strong
  As that which causeth it.—­

The quarto otherwise,

  The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
  And violenteth in a sense as strong
  As that which causeth it.—­

Violenteth is a word with which I am not acquainted, yet perhaps it may be right.  The reading of the text is without authority.

IV.iv.65 (101,3) For I will throw my glove to death] That is, I will challenge death himself in defence of thy fidelity.

IV.iv.105 (103,5)

  While others fish, with craft, for great opinion,
  I, with great truth, catch mere simplicity.]