stress' sake, because thou lovest her.
Farewell. [_Exit Silvia, with attendants._

_Jul._ And she shall thank you for't, if e'er you know her. 175
A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful!
I hope my master's suit will be but cold,
Since she respects my mistress' love so much.
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
Here is her picture: let me see; I think, 180
If I had such a tire, this face of mine
Were full as lovely as is this of hers:
And yet the painter flatter'd her a little,
Unless I flatter with myself too much.
Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow: 185
If that be all the difference in his love,
I'll get me such a colour'd periwig.
Her eyes are grey as glass; and so are mine:
Ay, but her forehead's low, and mine's as high.
What should it be that he respects in her, 190
But I can make respective in myself,
If this fond Love were not a blinded god?
Come, shadow, come, and take this shadow up,
For 'tis thy rival. O thou senseless form,
Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kiss'd, loved, and adored! 193
And, were there sense in his idolatry,
My substance should be statue in thy stead.
I'll use thee kindly for thy mistress' sake,
That used me so; or else, by Jove I vow,
I should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes, 200
To make my master out of love with thee! [_Exit._

Notes: IV, 4.

SCENE IV.] SCENE VI. Pope. Dyce makes no new scene here. See note
(VIII).
The same.] The same. Silvia's Anti-chamber. Capell.
6: _I was sent_] _I went_ Theobald.
11: _to be a dog indeed_] _to be a dog, to be a dog indeed_
Johnson conj.
20: _the third_] _a third_ Hanmer.
23: _you mean_] _do you mean_ Collier MS.
26: _makes me no more_] _makes no more_ Rowe.
28: _his servant_] _their servant_ Pope.
33: _Silvia_] _Julia_ Warburton.
39: _I'll do_] _Ile do_ F1. _Ile do sir_ F2 F3 F4. _I will do_
Malone.
45: _was_] _is_ Capell conj.
48: _did she_] F1 F2. _she did_ F3 F4.
50: _this_] _this cur_ Collier MS.
51: _the other squirrel_] _the other, Squirrel_ Hanmer.
51-54: Printed as four verses ending _me ... marketplace ... dog ...
greater_ Ff. Pope made the change.
52: _hangman boys_] Singer. _Hangmans boyes_ F1. _hangmans boy_
F2 F3 F4. _a hangman boy_ Collier MS.
57: [Exit Launce] om. F1. [Exit. F2 after line 58.
58: _still an end_] _ev'ry day_ Pope.