I. 1. 8, 9. The suggestion that a line has been lost in this place came first from Theobald. It is scarcely necessary to say that there is no mark of omission in the Folios. Malone supposes that a similar omission has been made II. 4. 123 . The compositor’s eye (he says) may have glanced from ‘succeed’ to ‘weakness’ in a subsequent hemistich.

In order to relieve the plethoric foot-note we set down in this place some conjectures for which we are indebted to Mr Halliwell’s note on the passage.

(1)	Then no more remains To your sufficiency as your worth is able But that you let than work. Wheler MS.
(2)	But task to your sufficience ... Dent. MS.
(3)	But that your sufficiency as your worth be able ... Monck Mason.
(4)	Then no more remains: To your sufficiency your worth be added, And let them work. T. Hull’s MS. Commentary.
(5)	... I let them work. Chalmers.

The reading assigned in the foot-note to Steevens is found in a note to the Edition of 1778. He afterwards changed his mind.