and into

Not more resembles, than he th' sweet rosy lad,
Who died, and was Fidele."

"One sand

Another not resembles more, than he

That sweet and rosy lad, who died, and was
Fidele."

while the more recent editors merely alter the old punctuation thus,

"One sand another

Not more resembles: that sweet rosy lad,

Who died, and was Fidele."

P. 336. (122)

"But we saw him dead."

The folio has "But we see him dead."

P. 337. (123) "I am glad to be constrain'd to utter that
Which torments me to conceal. By villany," &c.

Here the "which" (though we have "that which" in Iachimo's preceding speech) would seem to be an addition by the transcriber or printer.-The arrangement of the more recent editors is,

"I am glad to be constrain'd to utter that which
Torments me," &c.;

and Boswell says, "If we lay an emphasis on that, it will be an hypermetrical line of eleven syllables. There is scarcely a page in Fletcher's plays where this sort of versification is not to be found,"-Fletcher's versification being (except in some scenes of The Two Noble Kinsmen, which I am strongly inclined to believe are by Shakespeare) essentially different from our author's!

Has been amended to "help, help," for the metre.

The folio has "I am sorrow for thee," &c.,-which no one, I presume, will attempt to defend who recollects that the expression "I am sorry” occurs more than fifty times in our author's other plays.

P. 342. (127)

"and hath

More of thee merited than a band of Clotens
Had ever scar for."

I can see no reason to question this passage; nor has it, I believe, been questioned by any critic, except Mr. Singer, who in his Shakespeare, 1856, prints "Had ever score for," which he explains "Had ever credit for, or than could be scored to their account."

Here the folio has "Interrogatories:” but in All's well that ends well, act iv. sc. 3, and (twice) towards the close of The Merchant of Venice, it has the old contracted form of the word.

Johnson would read "By peace," &c.,-which Capell printed.

P. 347. (134)

"Of this yet scarce-cold battle," &c.

The folio has " Of yet this scarse-cold-Battaile," &c.-Corrected in the third folio.

Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen, and Messengers.

DIANA.

GOWER, as Chorus.

SCENE-dispersedly in various countries.

PERICLES.

ACT I.

Enter GoWER.

Before the palace of Antioch.

To sing a song that old was sung,
From ashes ancient Gower is come;
Assuming man's infirmities,

To glad your ear, and please your eyes.
It hath been sung at festivals,

On ember-eves and holy-ales; (1)

And lords and ladies in their lives

Have read it for restoratives:

The purchase(2) is to make men glorious;
Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius.

If you, born in these latter times,
When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes,
And that to hear an old man sing
May to your wishes pleasure bring,
I life would wish, and that I might
Waste it for you, like taper-light.-
This Antioch, then, Antiochus the Great
Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat;
The fairest in all Syria,-