Upon the wanton rushes lay you down,” &c.,
is one of those fine hair-strokes of exquisite judgment peculiar to Shakespeare;—thus detaching the Lady's speech, and giving it the individuality and entireness of a little poem, while he draws attention to it.
“Henry IV.—Part II.”
Act ii. sc. 2—
“P. Hen. Sup any women with him?
Page. None, my lord, but old mistress Quickly, and mistress
Doll Tear-sheet.
P. Hen. This Doll Tear-sheet should be some road.”