And that thou teachest how to make one twain, By praifing him here, who doth hence remain. XL. Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; Thought in ancient language meant melancholy. So, in Antony and Cleopatra, act IV. fc. 6: 66 -but thought will do't, I fear." Again, in Leland's Collectanea, vol. I. p. 234: 66 their mother died for thought." The poet, it is obfervable, has here ufed the Latin idiom, probably without knowing it: Jam vino quærens, jam fomno fallere curam. The quarto reads: Which time and thoughts fo fweetly doft deceive. But there is nothing to which doft can refer. The change being fo fmall, I have placed doth in the text, which affords an easy fenfe. MALONE. 2 how to make one twain, By praifing him here, who doth hence remain.] So, in Ar tony and Cleopatra: 3 "Our feparation fo abides and flies, "That thou refiding here, go'ft yet with me, "And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee." for STEEVENS. my love thou ufeft;] For has here the fignification of becaufe. MALONE. But yet be blam'd, if thou this felf deceiveft] Thus the quarto. It is evidently corrupt. MALONE. Laf Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows, XLI. Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits, Where thou art forc'd to break a two-fold truth; 5 Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won, Beauteous thou art, therefore to be affail'd;] So, in one of our author's plays: "She's beautiful, and therefore to be voo'd; till the have prevail'd.] The quarto reads: STEEVENS. But the lady, and not the man, being in this cafe fuppofed the wooer, the poet without doubt wrote: till he have prevail'd. The emendation was proposed to me by Mr. Tyrwhitt. MALONE. Ab me! but yet thou might'ft my feat forbear,] Surely here is a grofs corruption. I do not hesitate to read: Ah me! but yet thou might'ft, my fweet, forbear, So, in the 76th Sonnet: "O know, fweet love, I always write of you." Again, in the 89th Sonnet: "Thou canst not, love, difgrace me half fo ill-" Again, in the 40th Sonnet: Take all my loves, my love Again, in another Sonnet: -in my fight, "Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye afide." RI 4 MALONE. Her's, Her's, by thy beauty tempting her to thee, XLII. That thou haft her, it is not all my grief, XLIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best fee, When in dead night thy fair imperfect fhade" If I lofe thee, my lofs is my love's gain,] If I lofe thee, my mistress gains by my lofs. MALONE. thy fair imperfect bade] The quarto 1609, reads-their. The two words, it has been already obferved, are frequently confounded in thefe Sonnets. MALONE. All All days are nights to fee, till I fee thee, thee me 2. XLIV. If the dull fubftance of my flesh were thought, Receiving nought by elements fo flow XLV. The other two, flight air and purging fire, All days are nights to fee,] We fhould, perhaps, read: The compofitor might have caught the word fee from the end of the line. Malone. As, fair to fee (an expreffion which occurs in a hundred of our old ballads) fignifies fair to fight, fo, all days are nights to fee, means, all days are gloomy to be beheld, i. e. look like nights. STEEVENS. 2 do fhow thee me. e.] That is, do fhow thee to me. MALONE. -can jump both fea and land,] So, in Macbeth : "We'd jump the life to come." MALONE. fo much of earth and water wrought,] i. e. being fo thoroughly compounded of these two ponderous elements. Thus, in Antony and Cleopatra: 66 I am air and fire, my other elements "I give to bafer life." STEEVENS. The The first my thought, the other my defire, My life being made of four, with two alone, By those swift meffengers return'd from thee, XLVI. fad. Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war 7, My life being made of four,] So, in Much ado about Nothing" Does not our life confift of the four elements ?” • Of thy fair health,] The old copy has: STEEVENS. 7 Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,] So, in a paffage in Golding's Tranflation of Ovid, 1576, which our author has imitated in The Tempest (ante, p. 85): Among the earth-bred brothers you a mortal war did fet." MALONE. • -thy picture's fight would bar,] Here alfo their was printed instead of thy. MALONE. 9thy fair appearance lies.] The quarto has their. In. this Sonnet this miitake has happened four times. MALONE. Το |