Note 15 — NEW READINGS IN SHAKESPEARE.
Reading edition
The attempts made by a judicious foreigner to amend the text of our great dramatist are interesting, and deserve notice, even though not altogether successful. Herr Delius proposes thereby; but we must give the whole passage. The false Iachimo, endeavouring to bring Posthumus into discredit with Imogen, says, “Had I such a wife, I certainly would not do as Posthumus does,
Join gripes with hands Made hard with hourly falsehood (falsehood as With labour), then by peeping in an eye, Base and illustrious as the smoky light That’s fed with stinky tallow.”