The two first the nuptial torches bore As brightly[271] burning as the mid-day's sun: But after them doth Hymen hie as fast, Clothed in sable and a saffron robe, And blows them out, and quencheth them with blood, As discontent that things continue so. GHOST. Sufficeth me, thy meaning's understood, And thanks to[272] thee and those infernal powers, That will not tolerate a lover's woe: Rest thee, for I will sit to[273] see the rest. REVENGE. Then[274] argue not, for thou hast thy request. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [188] Hitherto this play has been made to consist of _four_ acts; but, surely, through mistake: the _third_ act containing more pages than any _two_ besides. The present editor [Hawkins] has therefore ventured, against the authority of the printed copies, to divide the _third_ into two; and submits the propriety of the arrangement to the judgment of the reader. It should seem, nevertheless, as if Kyd did not mean to make this division, as at the end of all the other acts something passes between the Ghost of Andrea and Revenge. It is singular that all the editions of this tragedy should be in four acts only, if such had not been the intention of the author.--_Collier._ [189] _Eyes_, 1618, '23, '33. [190] Or whipstock. "Probably the handle of a whip, round which a strap of leather is usually twisted, and is sometimes put for the whip itself." So in "Pericles," ii.-- "For by his rusty outside he appears To have practised more the whipstock than the lance." And in Ben Jonson's "New Inn," iii. 1, Pierce says, in reply to Trundle, "Let him go, base _whipstock_." Other examples are in Mr Steevens's note on "Twelfth Night," ii. 3. [191] _Innocency_, 1618, '23, '33. [192] _Liv'd_, ditto. [193] _Write_, 1618, '23, 33. [194] _Must_, ditto. [195] _Exit Page_, omitted, 1618, '23, '33. [196] _Unrest_, for disquiet, is a word frequently used by the old writers, as in "Titus Andronicus," act ii. sc. 3-- "And so repose, sweet gold, for their _unrest_." See Mr Steevens's note on this line. Again, ibid.-- "Then rest we here awhile in our _unrest_." [197] [Old copies, _weapons_.] [198] _Wit_, 1618, '23, '33. [199] _Know_, 1618, '23, '33. [200] _The_, 1618, '23, '33. [201] _Thy hate is love_, 1618. [202] _Twinnes_, 1618, '23, '33. [203] _When_, 1618, '23, '33. [204] _No_, omitted, ditto. [205] [So in Shakespeare's "Midsummer-Night's Dream," act. i. sc. 1-- "O happy fair! Your eyes are lodestars." Jonson correctly describes the lodestar, or _loadstar_, as it is less properly called, as "the leading or guiding star." Milton has the same thought in "Allegro"-- "Towr's and battlements he sees Bosom'd high in loftiest trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighb'ring eyes."