in the margin of the folio, 1632) in this way; and babe, then pronounced with the broad open a, was miswritten for it: therefore, the passage, properly printed, appears to be this:

'O! this life

Is nobler, than attending for a check,

Richer than doing nothing for a bob,' &c."

Collier's Notes and Emendations, &c. p. 494.

Though Mr. Collier patronises this correction, I cannot help regarding it as singularly infelicitous, -the word "bob" being almost ridiculously improper in the mouth of the present speaker, who is moralising very gravely. (Mr. Collier is mistaken in saying that "Shakespeare repeatedly uses bob :" it is found but once throughout his dramas, viz. in As you like it, act ii. sc. 7,-" senseless of the bob.")

As to Malone's notion that "babe" could here signify puppet, one can only wonder at it. Neither "bauble" (which is Rowe's, not Warburton's, emendation), nor "bribe" seem to suit the passage. In all probability, the right reading is "brabe." In a note ad 1. Boswell observes ; "Heth is thus explained by Speght in his Glossary to Chaucer: Brabes and such like.' Hething, for so Mr. Tyrwhitt gives the word, he interprets-contempt."

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