Note 10 — ACT I. SCENE I.

Come, &c.] The editor of 1816 printed,

“Come, I must help; where left you? I’ll proceed,”

without mentioning the reading of the old eds., which I have followed, and which (though this scene is probably more than slightly corrupted in several places) I believe to be right. Middleton sometimes, when he introduces a couplet, shews perfect indifference about the length of the first line: see note, vol. i. p. 424, and compare the following passage of The Phœnix;

“Without thee,

All the whole world were soiled bastardy.”

vol. i. p. 351, (where, in my note, I too hastily remarked that part of the first line had probably dropt out).