The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . modern emendation is What ? What ? These correctors cannot conceive of a pause indramatic metre—the retardation of a verse. SCENE I.] LOVE S LABOUB S LOST. 173 A woman, that is like a German clock^, Still a-repairing; ever out of frame ; And never going aright, being a watch, But being watohd that it may still go right I Nay, to be peijurd, which is worst of all; And, among three, to love the worst of all; A whitely wanton with a velvet brow. With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes; Ay, and, by heaven, one that will d
The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . modern emendation is What ? What ? These correctors cannot conceive of a pause indramatic metre—the retardation of a verse. SCENE I.] LOVE S LABOUB S LOST. 173 A woman, that is like a German clock^, Still a-repairing; ever out of frame ; And never going aright, being a watch, But being watohd that it may still go right I Nay, to be peijurd, which is worst of all; And, among three, to love the worst of all; A whitely wanton with a velvet brow. With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes; Ay, and, by heaven, one that will do the deed, Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard ! And I to sigh for her! to watch for her! To pray for her! Go to; it is a plague That Cupid will impose for my neglect Of his almighty dreadful little might. Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, groan^; Some men must love my lady, and some Joan. lExit. a And groan is the reading of the second folio; and is only wanting to satisfy an ear that con-siders syllabic regularity the sole principle of VOL. I,
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