Unless we take it ironically—which is unworthy of the poet—'beauty' here is nonsense. It plainly owes its origin to the preceding 'beautious.' Hanmer read dowdy; Sidney Walker gipsy—both bad. I read, with the utmost confidence, feature as the only word suited to the place. (See [Index] s. v.) Mr. Spedding, I find, conjectured visage or feature, apparently taking them to be synonymous.
"Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge."
For 'pale' Farmer read stale, perhaps needlessly.
"Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence."
Warburton read plainness, of which Mr. Dyce approves, and perhaps with reason. I have, however, made no change. Lead in fact never is pale; for its surface is always oxydized. Shakespeare, moreover, would hardly use the same term of two distinct substances. (See, however, on Rom. and Jul. ii. 5.)
Sc. 3.
"The Duke cannot deny the course of law,