Being excited and inforced. To _urge_ the
fire is the technical term.
I.i.199 (14,7) Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears] As this
line stands single, it is likely that the foregoing or following line
that rhym'd to it, is lost.
I.i.206 (14,8) Tell me in sadness] That is, tell me _gravely_, tell me
in _seriousness_.
I.i.217 (15,1) in strong proof] In chastity _of proof_, as we say in
armour _of proof_.
I.i.222 (15,2)
O, she is rich in beauty; only poor
That when she dies, with beauty dies her store]
Mr. Theobald reads, "_With_ her dies beauties _store_;" and is followed
by the two succeeding editors. I have replaced the old reading, because
I think it at least as plausible as the correction. _She is rich_, says
he, _in beauty_, and _only poor_ in being subject to the lot of
humanity, that _her store_, or riches, _can be destroyed by death_, who
shall, by the same blow, put an end to beauty.
I.ii.15 (17,2) She is the hopeful lady of my earth] _The lady of his
earth_ is an expression not very intelligible, unless he means that she
is heir to his estate, and I suppose no man ever called his lands his
earth. I will venture to propose a bold change:
She is the hope _and stay_ of my _full years_.
I.ii.25 (18,3) Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light] [W:
dark even] But why nonsense [Warburton's comment]? Is any thing mere
commonly said, than that beauties eclipse the sun? Has not Pope the
thought and the word?
"Sol through white curtains shot a tim'rous ray,
"And spe'd those eyes that must _eclipse the day_.
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