"O happy fair!
Your eyes are lodestars."
Jonson correctly describes the lodestar, or loadstar, as it is less properly called, as "the leading or guiding star." Milton has the same thought in "Allegro"—
"Towr's and battlements he sees
Bosom'd high in loftiest trees,
Where perhaps some beauty lies,
The cynosure of neighb'ring eyes."
Davies calls Elizabeth "lodestone to all hearts and lodestar to all eyes." See also Steevens's note on the above passage.]
[206] [The lines between brackets represent Jonson's additions to the original text.]
[207] Unleavell'd, 1623, '33.
[208] Cares, ditto.
[209] [Old copies—
"And his great mind, too full of honour,
Took him us to mercy that," &c.
Even as altered (perhaps for the better), the text is rather questionable.]