[Footnote 249: power] So the 8vo.--The 4to "powers."] [Footnote 250: knew] So the 8vo.--The 4to "know."] [Footnote 251: Reflexed] Old eds. "Reflexing."] [Footnote 252: their] Old eds. "your."] [Footnote 253: As] So the 8vo.--The 4to "And."] [Footnote 254: tents] So the 8vo.--The 4to "tent."] [Footnote 255: submission] Old eds. "submissions."] [Footnote 256: of ruth and] So the 8vo.--The 4to "AND ruth OF."] [Footnote 257: conceit] i.e. fancy, imagination.] [Footnote 258: Hath] So the 4to.--The 8vo "Haue."] [Footnote 259: nourish'd] So the 8vo.--The 4to "nourish."] [Footnote 260: wish'd] So the 8vo.--The 4to "wish."] [Footnote 261: imperious] So the 8vo.--The 4to "imprecious."] [Footnote 262: passion] i.e. sorrow.] [Footnote 263: resolved] i.e. dissolved.] [Footnote 264: Eyes, when that Ebena steps to heaven, &c.] Either the transcriber or the printer has made sad work with this passage; nor am I able to suggest any probable emendation.] [Footnote 265: fight] So the 8vo.--The 4to "fights."] [Footnote 266: Persia's] Old eds. "Perseans," and "Persians."] [Footnote 267: still] i.e. distil.] [Footnote 268: I thus conceiving, and subduing both, That which hath stoop'd the chiefest of the gods, Even from the fiery-spangled veil of heaven, To feel the lovely warmth of shepherds' flames, And mask in cottages of strowed reeds, &c. i.e. I thus feeling, and also subduing, the power of Beauty, which has drawn down the chiefest of the gods even from, &c. The 8vo has, "I thus conceiuing and subduing both. That which hath STOPT the TEMPEST of the Gods, Euen from the fiery spangled vaile of heauen, To feele the louely warmth of shepheards flames, And MARTCH in cottages of strowed WEEDS," &c. The 4to has, "I thus concieuing and subduing both, That which hath STOPT the TEMPEST of the Gods, Euen from the SPANGLED FIRIE vaile of heauen, To feele the louely warmth of Shepheardes flames, And MARCH in COATCHES of strowed WEEDES," &c. The alterations which I have made in this corrupted passage are supported by the following lines of the play; "See now, ye slaves, my children STOOP YOUR PRIDE (i.e. make your pride to stoop), And lead your bodies sheep-like to the sword." Part Second,--act iv. sc. 1. "The chiefest god, FIRST MOVER OF THAT SPHERE", &c. Part First,--act iv. sc. 2. "Jove SOMETIME masked IN A SHEPHERD'S WEED", &c. Part First,--act i. sc. 2. Perhaps in the third line of the present passage "fiery-spangled" should be "FIRE-YSPANGLED."] [Footnote 269: Attend.] Old eds. "An." (a misprint probably), which the modern editors understand as "Anippe" (the waiting-maid of Zenocrate).] [Footnote 270: March on us with] So the 4to.--The 8vo "MARTCHT on WITH vs with."]