In the "Two Gentlemen of Verona," (Act iii. Sc. 1,) Mr. White prefers, "She is not to be fasting in respect of her breath," to "She is not to be _kissed_ fasting in respect of her breath,"--an emendation made by Rowe,[F] and found also in Mr. Collier's Corrected Folio of 1632. We cannot agree with him in a reading which seems to us to destroy all the point of the passage. [Footnote F: Mr. Dyce says the word supplied by Rowe was "fasting," a manifest slip of the pen, and worth notice only as showing how easily errors may be committed.] In Dumain's ode, (_Love's Labor's Lost_, Act iv. Sc. 3,) beginning, "On a day, (alack the day!) Love, whose month is ever May," Mr. White chooses to read "Thou, for whom Jove would swear Juno but an Ethiop were," rather than accept Pope's suggestion of "ev'n Jove," or the far better "great Jove" of Mr. Collier's Corrected Folio,--affirming that "the quantity and accent proper to 'thou' make any addition to the line superfluous." We should like to hear Mr. White read the verse as he prints it. The result would be something of this kind:-- Thou-ou for whom Jove would swear,-- which would be like the 'bow-wow-wow before the Lord' of the old country-choirs. To our ear it is quite out of the question; and, moreover, we affirm that in dissyllabic (which we, for want of a better name, call iambic and trochaic) measures the omission of a half-foot is an impossibility, and all the more so when, as in this case, the preceding syllable is strongly accented. Even had the poem been meant for singing, which it was not, for Dumain reads it, the quantity would be false, though the ear might more easily excuse it. Such an omission would be not only possible, but sometimes very effective, in trisyllabic measures,--as, for instance, in anapests like these,-- "'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, And the owls have awakened the crowing cock,"-- where iambs or spondees may take the place of the first or second foot with no shock to the ear, though the change of rhythm be sensible enough,--as 'Tis th[)e] d[=e][=e]p midnight by the castle clock, And [)o]wls have awakened the crowing cock.