Sonnet cxxvii.,

"Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy hour;"

i.e., no worship.

Sonnet cxxxii.,

"Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
Knowing thy heart, torment me with disdain:
Have put on black, and loving mourners be,
Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain."

It is evident that Shakespeare

See the rest of the sonnet.
could never have thus contradicted himself.

Read,

Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain,
Have put on black," &c.

Since this emendation was made, I have discovered that in
Pope's edition [vol. vii. p. 249, edited by Dr. Sewell.—
Ed.] this passage stands as I have correeted it.6

Sonnet cxxxvi.,-—

"For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold
That nothing me, a something sweet to thee."

Point, "

a something, sweet, to thee;" as 1. 4, "my lovesuit, sweet, fulfil."

Sonnet cxli.,

Only my plague thus far I count my gain,

That she that makes me sin, awards me pain."

Pain in its old etymological sense of punishment.

6 So, too, an octavo edition, by Curl, 1710. I am not acquainted with Lintot's, of the same date. The same conjecture occurred to a correspondent of Mr. Collier's, Mr. J. O'Connell. The original edition gives the same punctuation, but reads torment, not torments. For this common blunder and the converse, see Art. xxxviii.-Ed.

Sonnet cxlii.,

"If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example may'st thou be denied!" See context. Hide apparently for withhold.

Sonnet cxliii.,

makes all swift dispatch

In pursuit of the thing she would have stay."

Sir Clyomon &c., Dyce's Peele, vol. iii. p. 86 (so arrange), "Well,

To scape the pursuit of the king, of this same shepherd here," Heywood, Dutchess of Suffolk, Lamb, ed. 1835, vol. ii. p. 217,

"Thus far, but heaven knows where, we have escap'd

The eager pursuit of our enemies."

Spanish Tragedy, v., Dodsley, ed. 1825, vol. iii. p. 191.,

Thy negligence in pursuit of their deaths."

Marston, Antonio and Mellida, P. i. i. 1, Old English Plays, vol. ii. p. 124,—

"Vehement in pursuit of strange novelties."

Daniel, Lines to Lord Keeper Egerton, St. viii., Works, 1623, p. 51,

"Altar of safeguard, whereto' affliction flies

From the' eager pursuit of severity."

Hymen's Triumph, i. 1, p. 265,

"In the attempt and pursuit of his love."

Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit at Several Weapons, v. 1, Moxon, vol. ii. p. 350, col. 2,—

her uncle is now hot

In pursuit of the match, and will enforce her," &c.

p. 351, col. 1, l. 1,—

This wings his pursuit, and will be before me." Massinger, Fatal Dowry, ii. 2, towards the end,"Forsake the pursuit of this lady's honour." Pursue. Thomas Lord Cromwell, ii. 2,

"O, you're the man that pursues Banister." In the Merchant of Venice, iv. 1, we have,— "We trifle time; I pray thee pursue sentence." But here, I think, it is pursue.

Sonnet cxlvi.,

"Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross." Terms, in the legal and academic sense. Long periods of time, opposed to hours.

By sights of evermore deformity."

Sidney Arcadia, B. i. p. 20, 1. 24,-"-after the end of these wars, of which they hope for a soon and prosperous issue." B. iii. p. 249, ult.,-" wishing with sighs-for a soon and safe delivery." P. 265, l. 38,—“ an unwares sigh." P. 267, 1. 35,-"These often replies upon conscience in Pamela," &c. (replies, doublings back, retreatings upon conscience, referrings of one's self to conscience, as the ground of one's determination). B. ii. p. 133, 1.2; see context,- considering, what indeed wonders they were able to perform;" i.e., what real, unquestionable wonders. B. v. p. 469, 1. 42,—“ . the time of my ever farewell approacheth."

Sonnet cxlviii.,

"Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,

How can it? O how can Love's eye be true," &c. Ought we not to affix a longer stop to no ?7 otherwise the flow seems not to be Shakespearian; compare the context.

Ib.,

"O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind, Lest eyes, well-seeing, thy foul faults should find." Print love; for surely he is speaking, not, as in the preceding lines, of love personified, but of his mistress.

Sonnet cli.,

"My soul doth tell my body that he may

Triumph in love: flesh stays no farther reason,
But, rising at thy name, doth point out thee
As his triumphant prize."

Triumphant, i.e. triumphal, the prize of his triumph. Somewhat otherwise Lord Brooke, Alaham, v. i. 1. 8,

Hala's present, this triumphant robe."

this robe in which I triumph.

Does not inflame, in the poets of this age, always mean to set on fire? (vEwTεpikws, to ignite.) King John, v. near the beginning. See context,

use all their power

To stop their marches, 'fore we are inflam'd;"

7 I believe Walker is right, though the punctuation to which he objects is that of all the editions. But ought we to stop here? ought we not to expunge the colon before no, and write,—

"Love's eye is not so true as all men's no"?

Shakespeare seems to intend a pun on eye and I, i.e. ay.—Ed.

(Compare 1 King Henry IV. iii. 3,— "The land is burning.")

Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, St. lxiv. Mount Ida,

like a kindly nurse did yeeld (for spight)
Store of firebronds out of her nurseries
Unto her foster children, that they might
Inflame the navie of their enimies."

Butler, Hudibras, P. ii. c. i. 1. 115,-
"No sooner did the Knight perceive her,
But straight he fell into a fever,
Inflam'd all over with disgrace,

To be seen by' her in such a place;" &c.

Milton, P. L., i. 300,

66

till on the beach

Of that inflamed sea he stood;"

at least if he alluded to Isaiah xxx. 33,-" Tophet is ordained of old, &c.- -the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it."

LOVER'S COMPLAINT, &c.

Sidney, Arcadia, B. ii. p. 171, 1. 34 sqq. [The character of Pamphilus.] The origin, if I mistake not, of the Lover's Complaint. Note, too, p. 185, 1. 28, of the same Pamphilus," I might well have known thee by others, but I would not; and rather wished to learn poison by drinking it myself," &c. Compare Lover's Complaint, St.xxi.—

St. xxv.

(The incident, p. 172, 1. 37 sqq. was partly copied by Ford in his Love's Sacrifice).

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