"As love is full of unbefitting strains * * * * * _Form'd by the eye_, and therefore like the eye." L. L. L. v. 2. "I know there is no beauty, Till our eyes give it 'em, and make 'em handsome." Fletch. Maid in Mill, i. 2. See also his Love's Pilgrimage, ii. 3. Steevens and others read '_her_ mine,' taking the latter as _mien_, a term not Shakespearian. (See on Mer. Wives, i. 3.) As there is still a syllable wanting, I would read 'Valentinès,' a mode of forming the genitive not unusual in our author's early plays. * * * * * SC. 5. "Launee, by mine honesty, welcome to Padua." That 'Padua' was the poet's word is proved by the metre, and the editors had no right to change it to _Milan_. 'By mine honesty' occurs in exactly the same manner in the play of Damon and Pitheas, with which Shakespeare was familiar. * * * * * "If thou wilt go with me to the ale-house, _so_; if not." The 2nd folio added _so_, which is required both by sense and metre. * * * * * SC. 7. "And instances of infinite of love." The 2nd folio reads '_as_ infinite,' which may be right, but 'infinite' seems to be made a substantive here. ACT III. SC. 1. "There is a lady in Verona here." Here again 'Verona,' the poet's word, has been altered by the editors. Pope, who is usually followed, read '_sir_, in _Milan_,' and Mr. Dyce adopts the unheard-of term _Milano_ of Collier's folio! We have no right to make such changes. * * * * * "For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'" Perhaps the poet's word was _By_ not 'For'; or there may be an omission of _by_ after 'For.' * * * * * "I fly not Death, to fly his deadly doom." For 'his' Singer read _is_. * * * * * "As ending anthem of my endless dolour." For 'anthem' Singer very plausibly read _amen_. * * * * * "_Item_, She is not to be _kissed_ fasting on account of her breath." Rowe added _kissed_, which, though generally received, is not absolutely necessary. "Nor does your nostril Take in the scent of strong perfumes, to stifle The sourness of our breaths as we are fasting." Massinger, Very Woman, i. 1. * * * * * "Now will he be swinged for reading _of_ my letter." * * * * * SC. 2. "But say this weed her love from Valentine." The context seems to require _wind_ for 'weed,' and I have so given it. * * * * * "That may discover such integrity."