And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,
That I revived and was an emperor."
[27] Omitted in eds. 1600, 1606, 1613, and 1637.
[28] Peised, weighed.
[29] Rooms were strewed with rushes before the introduction of carpets. Shakespeare, like Marlowe, attributed the customs of his own day to ancient times. Cf. Cymb. ii. 2—
"Our Tarquin thus
Did softly press the rushes ere he wakened
The chastity he wounded."
[30] Old eds. "crau'd."
[31] Some eds. give "O, none have power but gods."