Chapter XVI: Act II: SC. 1. "Lord Longaville is one."

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"Well-fitted in arts, glorious in arms."

I read 'In arts well-fitted'; so also Grant White. The 2nd folio has 'in _the_ arts.'

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"To the wide fields _is_ too base to be mine."

The metre requires a syllable.

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"'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.'

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"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.

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"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.

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"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 _undis_posed in Com. of Err. i. 2. It would seem, however, to be simply inclined with an ellipsis of the object.