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ACT II. · Section 14
Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners:: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on a Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris dance. · Francis Douce
ACT II.
SCENE 1. Page 228.
DRO. E. Will you come _home_? quoth I; my gold, quoth he.
The word _home_, which the metre requires, is said to have been suggested by Capell, but it had been already adopted by Sir Thomas Hanmer.
SCENE 2. Page 234.
ANT. S. If you will jest with me, know my _aspéct_.
Mr. Steevens explains this, _study my countenance_. It seems rather to be an astrological phrase, and to mean, _ascertain whether my aspect be malignant or benign_. He had just before mentioned the sun. Thus in _1 Henry IV._ Act I. Scene 1, "Malevolent to you in all _aspécts_."
SCENE 2. Page 241.
ADR. Thou art an _elm_ my husband, I a _vine_; If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping Ivy, briar or idle moss.
So in _A midsummer night's dream_, Act IV. Scene 1, "The female _ivy_ so enrings the barky fingers of the _elm_." There is something extremely beautiful in making the vine the lawful spouse of the elm, and the _parasite_ plants here named its _concubines_.