Act II Sc. 1
“Lord Longaville is one.”
“Well-fitted in arts, glorious in arms.”
I read ‘In arts well-fitted’; so also Grant White. The 2nd folio has ‘in the arts.’
“To the wide fields is too base to be mine.”
The metre requires a syllable.
“’Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,
And sin to break it.”
Perhaps something may have been lost. It might be ‘’tis no sin.’
“My lips are no common, though several they be.”
‘Several’ is the very opposite of ‘common.’ “Truth lies open to all; it is no man’s several.”—Jonson, Discoveries. We should therefore, I think, for ‘though’ read for, which is proved by the following speeches. The printer might have taken for for tho’, or have supposed that ‘be’ was the conjunctive mood.
“Who tendering their own worth, from where they were glass’d,
Did point out to buy them, along as you pass’d.”
The 4to reads ‘point you’; but neither reading makes sense. We might read ‘prompt you,’ or ‘tempt you.’ I have adopted the former.
“Come to our pavilion; Boyet is dispos’d.”
By ‘dispos’d’ here we are to understand—like dispos Fr.—cheerful, or rather gamesome; we have undisposed in Com. of Err. i. 2. It would seem, however, to be simply inclined with an ellipsis of the object.