The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Boyet._ Why, all his behaviours did make their retire
To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire:
His heart, like an agate, with your print impress’d, 235
Proud with his form, in his eye pride express’d:
His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see,
Did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be;
All senses to that sense did make their repair,
To feel only looking on fairest of fair: 240
Methought all his senses were lock’d in his eye,
As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy;
Who, tendering their own worth from where they were glass’d,
Did point you to buy them, along as you pass’d:
His face’s own margent did quote such amazes, 245
That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes.
I’ll give you Aquitaine, and all that is his,
An you give him for my sake but one loving kiss.
_Prin._ Come to our pavilion: Boyet is disposed.
_Boyet._ But to speak that in words which his eye hath disclosed. 250
I only have made a mouth of his eye,
By adding a tongue which I know will not lie.
_Ros._ Thou art an old love-monger, and speakest skilfully.
_Mar._ He is Cupid’s grandfather, and learns news of him.
_Ros._ Then was Venus like her mother; for her father is
but grim. 255
_Boyet._ Do you hear, my mad wenches?
_Mar._ No.
_Boyet._ What then, do you see?
_Ros._ Ay, our way to be gone.
_Boyet._ You are too hard for me.
[_Exeunt._
~~~~~
Linenotes: _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, II, 1.
ACT II.] om. Q1. Actus secunda F1 F2. Actus secundus. Q2 F3
F4.
Enter...] Rowe. Enter the Princesse of France with three attending
Ladies and three Lords. Qq Ff.
1: _dearest_] _clearest_ Collier MS.
2: _who_] Qq F1. _whom_ F2 F3 F4.
13: Prin.] F2 F3 F4. Queen. Qq F1.
_Lord_] _L._ Qq Ff.
_beauty, though_] _thought_ Q2.
19: _your wit in the praise_] Qq F1. _thus your wit in praise_ F2
F3 F4.
21: _You ..._] Prin. _You ..._ F1 Q2.
25: _to ’s seemeth_] Qq Ff. _to us_ _seemeth_ Rowe (ed. 2). _to us
seems_ Pope.
32: _Importunes_] _Importuous_ Q1.
34: _visaged_] Ff Q2. _visage_ Q1.
36: [Exit B.] Dyce. Exit. Q1 F1 (after line 34).
37, 38: Printed as prose in Qq Ff. First as verse by Rowe (ed. 2).
39: First Lord. _Lord Longaville_] Capell. Lor. _Longavill._ Qq Ff.
_you_] _ye_ Warburton.
40: Mar.] Rowe. 1 Lady. Qq Ff. Lord. Hanmer.
_I know_] _I knew_ F2 F3 F4.
40–43: _madam: at...solemnized In_] Capell. _madam at...solemnized.
In_ Qq Ff.
43: _In Normandy,_] Mar. _In Normandy_ Hanmer.
44: _of sovereign parts_] Ff Q2. _of soveraigne peerelsse_ Q1.
_of— sovereign, peerless_ Malone conj. _a sovereign pearl_ Steevens
conj. _of his sovereign peerless_ Jackson conj.
45: _Well fitted in arts_] Qq F1. _Well fitted in the arts_ F2 F3
F4. _In arts well fitted_ Grant White conj.
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