"If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis

It shall make honour for you."

I cannot make sense of 'consent.' I had thought of content, also the conjecture of Malone; but it does not quite content me.


"The curtain'd sleepe; witchcraft celebrates."

Something is evidently lost here. Steevens and Collier's folio read 'sleeper.' (See on Temp. iii. 1.) The usual reading has been that of Davenant, 'now witchcraft.'


"With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design

Moves like a ghost.—Thou sure and firm-set earth

Hear not my steps which way they walk."