"Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new." Son. xxvii. * * * * * "So shews a snowy dove, trooping with crows, As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows." The 4to 1597 reads in the first line _shines_; and the first 'shews' has every appearance of having been, as usual, suggested by the second. * * * * * "This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this." So Warburton, for _sin_ of 4tos and folio. ACT II. SC. 1. "Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so trim." Mr. Dyce reads auburn, and he gives undoubted instances of _Abraham_ or _Abram_ being used for this word. Still I incline to the general reading, first given by Upton, of _Adam_, with an allusion to Adam Bell, the great archer; and I think there may be another to Adam, the first man; for Shakespeare may have known that in classic mythology Love was the first of beings. There would be humour, then, in 'young Adam' denoting the union of youth and age. * * * * * SC. 2. "Her vestal-livery is but pale and green." The reading of 4to 1597; the others and the folio have 'sick and green.' * * * * * "As glorious to this night being o'er my head." Theobald most tastelessly read the _sight_. * * * * * "When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds." The reading of 4to 1597; the others and the folio read '_puffing_,' caused, as has been observed, by _passing_ spelt with long _s_s in the MS. * * * * * "To cease thy strife, and leave me to my grief." The undated 4to reads _suit_ for 'strife,' which has been generally, and rightly, adopted. In the poem of Romeus and Juliet, the latter uses the very expression _cease your suit_ on the same occasion. * * * * * "Romeo!--My dear!--At what o'clock to-morrow?" For 'My dear,' the reading of the undated 4to, that of 1597 has _Madam_; the others and the folio _My niece_; the 2nd folio _My sweet_, the usual reading. * * * * * SC. 4. "She will indite him to some supper." The 4to 1597 has _invite_; but Benvolio was probably anticipating the nurse's language. * * * * * "Bid her devise some means to come to shrift This afternoon." * * * * There is something lost here; perhaps _to the Franciscan convent_. * * * * * "R is for the ... no; I know it begins" etc. Editors in general read, after Tyrwhitt, 'R is for the _dog_.' Mr. Collier has 'R is for thee? no.' * * * * *