[Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou
Tak'st up the princess, by that forced baseness]
Leontes had ordered Antigonus to _take up the bastard,_ Paulina forbids
him to touch the princess under that appellation. _Forced_ is
false, uttered with violence to truth.
II.iii.106 (299, 6) [No yellow in't] _Yellow_ is the colour of jealousy.
II.iii.181 (301, 8) [commend it strangely to some place] Commit to
some place, _as a stranger,_ without more provision.
III.i.2 (302, 9) [Fertile the isle] [Warburton objected to "isle" as
impossible geographically and offered "soil"] Shakespeare is little
careful of geography. There is no need of this emendation in a
play of which the whole plot depends upon a geographical error, by
which Bohemia is supposed to be a maritime country.
III.i.3 (303, 1) [I shall report, For most it caught me] [W: It shames
report, Foremost] Of this emendation I see no reason; the utmost
that can be necessary is, to change, _it caught me,_ to _they caught
me;_ but even this may well enough be omitted. _It_ may relate to
the whole spectacle.
III.i.14 (304, 2) [The time is worth the use on't] [W: The use is
worth the time on't] Either reading may serve, but neither is very
elegant. _The time is worth the use on't,_ means, the time which we
have spent in visiting Delos, has recompensed us for the trouble
of so spending it.
III.ii.18 (305, 4) [pretence] Is, in this place, taken for a _scheme
laid,_ a _design formed;_ to _pretend_ means to _design,_ in the _Gent.
of Verona._
III.ii.27 (305, 5) [mine integrity, Being counted falsehood, shall, as
I express it, Be so receiv'd] That is, my _virtue_ being accounted
_wickedness,_ my assertion of it will pass but for a _lie. Falsehood_
means both _treachery_ and _lie._
III.ii.43 (306, 6) [For life I prize it As I weigh grief which I
would spare] _Life_ is to me now only _grief,_ and as such only is
considered by me, I would therefore willingly dismiss it.
III.ii.44 (306, 5) [I would spare] To _spare_ any thing is to _let it go.
to quit the possession of it._ (1773)