The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Act I Sc. 1
“I leave myself, my friends, and all for love.”
The folio has ‘I love.’ Pope made the obvious correction.
“But what said she? did she nod?”
These last words are an addition by Theobald, and the context shows they had been lost.
Sc. 2
“Yet he of all the rest I think best loves ye.”
‘Lov’d ye’ would rime better with ‘mov’d me.’
“That I might sing it, madam, to a tune.”
As time and ‘tune’ were synonymous, perhaps the poet used the former, which would accord with ‘rime.’
“Let’s see your song. Why, how now, minion!”
“You do not like it!—No, madam, it is too sharp.”
“I see you have a month’s mind to them.”
A syllable is wanting. Some read moneth, but that is not a Shakespearian form. We might also read ‘unto’ for ‘to’ but I prefer ‘I see that you’; as I have given it in my Edition.
Sc. 3
“And be in the eye of every exercise.”