"I have a widow aunt, a dowager,
Of great revenue, and she hath no child,
And she respects me as her only son.
From Athens is her house remote seven leagues."
Common sense dictates the transposition made here of the last lines. There is no note on this passage in the Cambridge Shakespeare; so none of the known critics can have noticed it. The third line, it is evident, had been an addition made by the poet in the margin.
"By the simplicity of Venus' doves,
By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves."
Singer transposes these lines. It is, by the way, surprising how many transpositions there are in this play; but it was not necessary to transpose here, and his doing so arose from his misunderstanding the second line; in which the allusion is most probably to the Cestus of Venus.