But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, |
- ↑ 17. to her consent] My will is a part subsidiary to her consent, which is the chief thing.
- ↑ 18. An she agree] Daniel, inserting a comma after And, follows Q, And, she agreed.
- ↑ 20. old accustom'd] Dyce, after Walker, hyphens these words.
- ↑ 25. make dark heaven light] Stars of earth which shall cast up their beams to the dark heaven and illuminate it. Warburton read dark even (i.e. evening) light. Mason proposed heaven's light, the earthly stars outshine, and so eclipse, the stars of heaven. Daniel suggests mock ( = rival) dark heaven's light. No emendation is needed.
- ↑ 26. young men] Johnson proposed yeomen, and Daniel, printing young-men from Q1, understands it as yeomen. Malone happily compares Sonnets, xcviii.:
"When proud-pied April dress'd in all his trim
Hath put a spirit of youth in every-thing." - ↑ 28. limping] Daniel prints lumping, Q1, "as conveying a more picturesque notion of dull, heavy, boorish winter."
- ↑ 30. Inherit] possess, as in Tempest, IV. i. 154.
- ↑ 32, 33] I venture on what I suppose to be a new pointing of these lines, but I do not alter any word of Qq 4, 5, inserting only a comma after of,