Act III Sc. 1
“There is a lady in Verona here.”
Here again ‘Verona,’ the poet’s word, has been altered by the editors. Pope, who is usually followed, read ‘sir, in Milan,’ and Mr. Dyce adopts the unheard-of term Milano of Collier’s folio! We have no right to make such changes.
“For ‘get you gone,’ she doth not mean ‘away.’”
Perhaps the poet’s word was By not ‘For’; or there may be an omission of by after ‘For.’
“I fly not Death, to fly his deadly doom.”
For ‘his’ Singer read is.
“As ending anthem of my endless dolour.”
For ‘anthem’ Singer very plausibly read amen.
“Item, She is not to be kissed fasting on account of her breath.”
Rowe added kissed, which, though generally received, is not absolutely necessary.
“Nor does your nostril
Take in the scent of strong perfumes, to stifle
The sourness of our breaths as we are fasting.”
Massinger, Very Woman, i. 1.
“Now will he be swinged for reading of my letter.”
Sc. 2
“But say this weed her love from Valentine.”
The context seems to require wind for ‘weed,’ and I have so given it.
“That may discover such integrity.”
Though in my edition I have made here an aposiopesis, I think it more probable that a line has been lost.