These compounds of two adjectives—the first being used adverbially—are not by any means uncommon. They are frequent in Shakespeare; in Fletcher's Hum. Lieut. (iii. 2) we have "serious-true," and in his Chances (ii. 1) "glorious-foolish." (See on 1 Hen. IV. iii. 1.)
"In speed to Padua; see thou render this."
All the old editions read Mantua, but it is so certain that it must have been a mere slip of the poet or the printer that Theobald's correction has been universally and properly adopted. (See on Hen. V. iii. Chor.)
"Unto the Tranect, to the common ferry."
Rowe, I think properly, read Traject (tragetto It.).
Sc. 5.
"And if on earth he do not mean it, then."