And all those weeping dews that nightly fall
Are but the tears shed for thy funeral.
Bishop King, Poems, p. 19.
Help. ‘To help’ used not unfrequently to designate an assisting in one particular manner, in that namely of healing. A recent editor of Shakespeare, not having this present in his mind, has said of those lines first quoted below: ‘We cannot but believe Shakespeare wrote, Do wounds salve wounds, &c., or Do wounds heal wounds, &c.’ There is indeed nothing here needing to be set right.
Why, Collatine, is woe the cure for woe?
Do wounds help wounds, or grief help grievous deeds?
Shakespeare, Lucrece.
Love doth to her repair,
To help him of his blindness,
And being helpt inhabits there.