We might also read, with S. Walker, '_the_ heaven's; but I prefer what is in the text. A syllable was undoubtedly omitted. * * * * * "Where if, before repast, it shall please you to gratify the table with a grace." For '_before_ repast' of the 4to, the folio has '_being_ repast' in a parenthesis; and it may possibly be right, the school-master, in his pedantic way, using 'repast' as a participle. The grace, then, would be after dinner. * * * * * SC. 3. "The dew of night that on my cheeks down flows." Both 4to and folio read 'The night of dew,' and so most editions; but the context requires the transposition. The same is the case in the last line but one of this sonnet, where 4to and folio read 'dost thou.' * * * * * "Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society, The shape of Love's Tyburn, that hangs up simplicity." This is no rime; the poet must have written _sobriety_ in the second line. * * * * * "Disfigure not his shop." As 'hose' has just occurred, Theobald read _slop_, which both Singer and Dyce properly adopt. The usual reading is _shape_. * * * * * "Oh, most divine Kate! Oh, most prophane coxcomb!" Both rime and metre demand _pate_ in the second line (see Introd. p. 63). The whole dialogue, with this exception, is in rime. * * * * * "By earth, she is not. Corporal, there you lie." Theobald, who is usually followed, reads "By earth she is but corporal; there you lie." I think, however, the text is right. In iii. 1 Berowne, styling Love a "great general," adds, "and I to be a _corporal_ of his field!" so he may well apply that title to Dumain. See Index _s. v._ * * * * * "That shall express my true love's fasting pain." Capell read _lasting_. * * * * * "_Of_ faith enfringed, which such zeal did swear?" * * * * * "To see a king transformed to a gnat." For 'gnat,' of which it is not very easy to see the meaning, Mr. Staunton would read _quat_, the conjecture of Mr. Becket, and surely not better. We also meet _sot_ and _knot_, equally bad. In Pericles (ii. 3), however, princes wanting in liberality are compared to gnats. * * * * * "Not you by me, but I betray'd to you." Capell transposed 'by' and 'to'; which seems to be right. Yet 'to' may have been suggested for _by_, by the preceding line. * * * * * "With men like men of inconstancy." As something is evidently wanted, the 2nd folio read 'of _strange_,' and that is the usual reading; Theobald '_moon_-like men.' I have read, as I find S. Walker had done, "With men like _you_, men of inconstancy." * * * * *