"As glorious to this night being o'er my head."
Theobald most tastelessly read the sight.
"When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds."
The reading of 4to 1597; the others and the folio read 'puffing,' caused, as has been observed, by passing spelt with long ss in the MS.
"To cease thy strife, and leave me to my grief."
The undated 4to reads suit for 'strife,' which has been generally, and rightly, adopted. In the poem of Romeus and Juliet, the latter uses the very expression cease your suit on the same occasion.
"Romeo!—My dear!—At what o'clock to-morrow?"