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Ib. 1. 9.

Our author

In so profound abysm, &c. uses this word (abysm) in "The Tempest," and "Anthony and Cleopatra." STEEVENS.

Ib. 1. 10. Of other voices. Read---others' voices.
Ib. ib. and 1. 11. That my adder's sense to critic, &c.
That my ears are equally deaf to the snarling censurer,
and the flattering encomiast. Critic for Cynic. MA-

LONE.

Ib. 1. 14.

That all the world besides me thinks I am dead. This is the nonsense of a modern edition. Read according to the old copies---besides methinks they're dead.

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The quarto has---methinks y'are dead. Y'are was, MALONE. suppose, an abbreviation for they are. The sense is this---I pay no regard to the sentiments of mankind; and observe how I account for this my indifference. I think so much of you, that I have no leisure to be anxious about the opinions of others; I proceed, as if the world, yourself excepted, were no STEEVENS.

more.

Ib. 1. 18.

Doth part his function; i. e. partly per

forms his office. MALONE.

Ib. 1. 21. Of birds, of flowers, of shape, which he doth lack. Read---Of bird, of flower, &c.

Mr. Malone, in his edition, reads---which it doth latch; and says, "The corresponding rhyme shows what I have now substituted was the author's word.

To latch, formerly, signified to lay hold of."

P. 78, 1. 2. The most sweet favour. Favour is coun tenance. MALONE.

Ib. 1.6. My most true mind that maketh mine untrue. The word untrue is used as a substantive. The sincerity of my affection is the cause of my untruth; i. e. of my not seeing objects truly, such as they appear to the rest of mankind.

Ib. 1. 16. Most kindly drinks it up. read-most kingly, &c.

Ib. 1. 17.

Other copies

What with his gust is 'greeing; i. e. what

is pleasing to the taste of my mind. MALONE.

Ib. 1. 25.

Whose million accidents. Read---whose

million'd accidents, &c.

P. 79. Cun sacred beauty, blunt &c. Read-Tan sacred beauty, blunt, &c.

Ib. 1. 6. Crowding. Read--crowning.

Ib. 1. 13. Day by day. This expression was probably suggested by the Magnificat; "Day by day we magnify thee." MALONE.

Ib. 1. 18.

Ib. 1. 24.

make, &c.

Ib. 1. 25.

tart, poignant.

P. 80, 1. 3.

Error down. Read---errors.

Like as you make, &c. Read---Like as, to

With eager compounds. Eager is sour,
STEEVENS.

Near cloying. Read---ne'er-cloying.

Ib. 1. 5. Meekness. Read---meetness.

Ib. 1. 9. A hateful state, Read---a healthful state.

Ib. 1. 11. And the fond lesson true. Read ---and find the lesson true. These are all errors of a modern edition, probably intended as emendations by an ignorant editor.

Ib. 1. 19 and 20. this madding fever.

Been fitted---In the distraction of How have mine eyes been con

vulsed during the frantic fits of my feverous love. The participle fitted, is not, I believe, used by any other author in the sense in which it is here employed. MA

LONE.

P. 81, 1. 11. Might have remember'd; i. e. might have reminded. MALONE.

P. 82, 1. 1. Who are frailer spies. Read---why are, &c.

Ib. 1. 5. Be bevel; i. e. crooked; a term used only, I believe, by masons and joiners. STEEVENS.

Ib. 1. 12. With a lashing memory.

lasting memory.

Ib. 1. 13.

Ib. 1. 19.

retention.

Read---with

Idle rant, &c. Read-idle rank, &c.

That poor attention.

Read---That poor

That poor retention is the table book given to him by his friend, incapable of retaining, or rather of contain

ing, so much as the tablet of the brain.

Ib. 1. 24. Were to impart, &c.

import, &c.

MALONE.

Read---Were to

P. 83, 1. 12. Doth lye. Read--do lye.
Un-feathered. Read---un-father'd.

Ib. 1. 18.

Ib. 1. 24.

Whereto t'inviting time, &c. Read--

Whereto th' inviting, &c.

P. 84, 1. 4. That it nor grows with heat nor drowns with show'rs. Though a building may be drown'd ; i. e. deluged by rain, it can hardly grow under the influence of heat. I would read--glows. STEEVENS.

Our poet frequently starts from one idea to another. Though he had compared his affection to a building, he seems to have deserted that thought; and here, per

haps, meant to allude to the progress of vegetation, and the accidents that retard it. MALONE.

Ib. 1. 5 and 6. The fools of time---Which die, &c. Perhaps this is a stroke at some of Fox's Martyrs. STEEVENS.

Ib. 1. 8. Where it ought to be, &c. Read---Were it aught to me, &c.

edition.

Ib. 1. 11.

Ib. 1. 18.

These are the errors of a modern

Running. Read---Ruining.

Which is not mixed with seconds. I am just informed, by an old lady, that seconds is a provincial term for the second kind of flour, which is collected after the smaller bran is sifted. That our author's oblation was pure, unmixed with baser matter, all that he meant to say. STEEVENS.

P. 85, 1. 1. Virginals. Piano-Fortes. MALONE.

Virginals were shaped like

Ib. 1. 2. How oft when thou thy music, music-play'st. Read---How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st. Ib. 1. 5. The witty concord. Read---The wiry concord.

Ib. 1. 6.

Do I envy, &c. Envy; this word is aceented by other ancient writers in the same manner. MALONE.

Ib. 1. 12. O'er whom their fingers, &c. Thus the old copy. Read---O'er whom thy fingers, &c. P. 86, 1. 1. Made in pursuit, &c. Thus the old copy corruptly. Read---Mad in pursuit, &c.

Read-and

Ib. 1. 3. And proud, and very woe. prov'd, a very woe. The quarto reads---and very woe,

and proud was, probably, adopted by a modern editor, to render it somewhat intelligible. EDITOR. No holy bower. Read---no holy hour. Her eyes so suited. Her eyes of the same colour as those of the raven. MALONE.

Ib. 1. 14.

Ib. 1. 17.

Ib. 1. 18 and 19. And they mourners seem, &c. They seem to mourn, that those who are not born fair, are yet possessed of an artificial beauty, by which they pass for what they are not, and thus dishonor nature by their imperfect imitation and false pretensions. MALONE.

P. 87, l. 1. I have seen roses, damask, &c. Read-I have seen roses damask'd, &c.

Ib.1.9. rare, &c.

Ib. 1. 11.

My love is rare, &c. Read---my love as

Thou art tyrannous, so thou art. Read

Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art.

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-restore, to be my comfort, &c.

Ib. 1. 11. The statute of thy beauty.

Statute has

here its legal signification, that of a security or obliga

tion for money. MALONE.

Ib. 1. 13. For thy sake. Read---for my sake.
P. 90, 1. 12.

full, &c.

I fill it full, &c. Read---Ay, fill it

The modern editors, by following the old copy, in which the vowel I is here used instead of ay, have rendered this line unintelligible. MALONE.

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