cat for delivering your letter: and
being so hard to me that brought your mind, I fear she'll
prove as hard to you in telling your mind. Give her no
token but stones; for she's as hard as steel.

_Pro._ What said she? nothing? 135

_Speed._ No, not so much as 'Take this for thy pains.'
To testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned
me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your letters yourself:
and so, sir, I'll commend you to my master.

_Pro._ Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck, 140
Which cannot perish having thee aboard,
Being destined to a drier death on shore. [_Exit Speed._
I must go send some better messenger:
I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
Receiving them from such a worthless post. [_Exit._ 145

Notes: I, 1.

8: _with_] _in_ Capell.
19: _my_] F1. _thy_ F2 F3 F4.
21-28: Put in the margin as spurious by Pope.
25: _for_] _but_ Collier MS.
28: _thee_] om. S. Walker conj. See note (II).
30: _fading_] om. Hanmer.
48: _blasting_] _blasted_ Collier MS.
57: _To_] F1. _At_ F2 F3 F4. _To Milan!--let me hear_ Malone conj.
65: _leave_] Pope. _love_ Ff.
69: _Made_] _Make_ Johnson conj.
70: SCENE II. Pope.
70-144: Put in the margin by Pope.
77: _a_] F2 F3 F4. om. F1.
89: _follow_] _follows_ Pope.
102: _astray_] _a stray_ Theobald (Thirlby conj.)
_Nay: ... astray,_] Edd. _Nay, ... astray:_ Ff.
105: _a_] _the_ Delius (Capell conj.).
108, 109: Pro. _But what said she?_ Speed. [First nodding] _Ay._]
Edd.
Pro. _But what said she?_ Sp. _I._ Ff. Pro. _But what said she?_
Speed. _She nodded and said I._ Pope.
Pro. _But what said she? Did she nod?_ [Speed nods] Speed. _I._
Theobald.
Pro. _But what said she?_ [Speed _nods_] _Did she nod?_ Speed.
_I._ Capell.
110: _Nod--Ay--_] _Nod--I,_ Ff.
111, 112: _say ... say_] F1. _said ... said_ F2 F3 F4.
126: _at once_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.
130-134: Printed as verse in Ff.
130: _from her_] _from her better_ Collier MS. to rhyme with
_letter_ in the next line.
132: _brought_] _brought to her_ Collier MS.
133: _your_] F1. _her_ F2 F3 F4. _you her_ Collier MS.
135: _What said she? nothing?_] _What said she, nothing?_ Ff.
_What, said she nothing?_ Pope.
137: _as 'Take ... I thank you_] _as 'I thank you; take ..._
Edd. conj.
_testerned_] F2 F3 F4. _cestern'd_ F1.
138: _henceforth_] F1 F