quartos have "threw me on my father." An obvious error, corrected by Theobald. &c. P. 208. Howl, howl, howl, howl!-O, you are men of stone: The old editions have "men of stones." Pope's correction. P. 209. 'Tis a dull light. Are you not Kent? - The folio reads "This is a dull sight." The words are not in the quartos. It does not well appear what sight can refer to here. And the question, “are you not Kent?" naturally infers that Lear thinks the light is growing dim. The long s and / were apt to be confounded. The change is from Collier's second folio. - Both sense and metre are against the reading This is.—See foot-note 35. |