I think we should read this in the plural, as no particular poet was regarded as the author of this mythe. * * * * * "Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion." In reading "ho!" for the _how_ of the original editions, I had been anticipated by Malone. * * * * * "That she did give me, whose--poësy was --For all the world like cutler's poetry Upon a knife--_Love me and leave me not_." By punctuating thus, we need not read, with Steevens, '_to_ me.' * * * * * "Or your own honour to contain the ring." It might be better, with Pope, to read _retain_. (See on Two Gent. v. 4, _ad fin._) * * * * * "In summer where the ways are fair enough." The usual confusion of _where_ and _when_. * * * * * "Well while I live," etc. A waggish allusion to a story told by Poggio, Ariosto, Rabelais, La Fontaine, and Prior. Our poet probably got it from Rabelais, with whom he was familiar. AS YOU LIKE IT. ACT I. SC. 1. "As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion. _He_ bequeathed me, by will, but poor a thousand crowns, and as thou sayest," etc. The 2nd folio reads 'a poor thousand,' but the metre is in favour of the original reading, and we meet "What poor an instrument" (Ant. and Cleop. v. 2). It is really surprising to see with what pertinacity editors reject the necessary word _He_, first supplied by Blackstone. * * * * * "Or to speak more properly stays me here at home." Warburton read _stys_, as in Temp. i. 2, which is certainly more forcible; but Orlando could not be said to be 'sty'd,' like Caliban. * * * * * "If Rosalind, the Duke's daughter, be banished." Hanmer added _old_ to 'Duke,' which, however, is not necessary. * * * * * SC. 2. "_Ros._ My father's love is enough to honour him enough." _Ros._ should probably be _Cel._ (so also Theobald), and the second 'enough' be rejected. * * * * * "Sport? Of what colour?" The princess here plays on the similarity of sound between _spot_ and _sport_, pronounced with the _r_ nearly effaced. * * * * * "There is such odds in the _man_." Hanmer properly read _men_. * * * * * "Mounsieur the challenger, the princess calls for you.-- I attend them," etc. Celia had desired Le Beau to call him; Orlando, seeing two princesses, says 'them'; so the corrections of the critics are needless. * * * * * "If you saw yourself with your eyes, or knew yourself with your judgement." Warburton ingeniously, but perhaps needlessly, read _our_ for 'your.' * * * * *