Act I. sc. 2. Charles's speech:—
—For what concerns tillage,
Who better can deliver it than Virgil
In his Georgicks? and to cure your herds,
His Bucolicks is a master-piece.
Fletcher was too good a scholar to fall into so gross a blunder, as Messrs. Sympson and Colman suppose. I read the passage thus:—
—For what concerns tillage,
Who better can deliver it than Virgil,
In his /GeORGicks/, or to cure your herds;
(His Bucolicks are a master-piece.)
But when, &c.
Jealous of Virgil's honor, he is afraid lest, by referring to the Georgics alone, he might be understood as undervaluing the preceding work. 'Not that I do not admire the Bucolics, too, in their way:—But when, &c.'
Act iii. sc. 3. Charles's speech:—
—She has a face looks like a story;
The story of the heavens looks very like her.
Seward reads 'glory;' and Theobald quotes from Philaster—
That reads the story of a woman's face.—
I can make sense of this passage as little as Mr. Seward;—the passage from Philaster is nothing to the purpose. Instead of 'a story,' I have sometimes thought of proposing 'Astræa.'