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And think so still, so Stella know my mind:
Profess, indeed, I do not Cupid's art;
But you, fair maids, at length this true shall find,
That his right badge is but worn in the heart.
Dumb swans, not chattering pies, do lovers prove:
They love indeed who quake to say they love."
--P. 537, edit. 1598.
It may be worth a remark that the two last lines are quoted with a
difference in "England's Parnassus," 1600, p. 191--
"Dumb swans, not chattering pies, do lovers prove;
They love indeed who _dare not say_ they love."
In the quarto copy of Nash's play the word _swains_ is misprinted for
_swans_. The introduction to the passage would have afforded Mr Malone
another instance, had he wanted one, that shepherd and poet were used
almost as synonymes by Shakespeare's contemporaries.
[101] Perhaps we ought to read _feign_ instead of _frame_; but _frame_
is very intelligible, and it has therefore not been altered.
[102] The quarto gives this line thus--
"Of secrets more desirous _or_ than men,"
which is decidedly an error of the press.
[103] [Old copy, every.]
[104] [Old copy, true hell.]
[105] See act i. sc. 3 of "Macbeth"--
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