[Footnote 7: 'makes Modesty itself suspected.']
[Footnote 8: 'makes Innocence ashamed of the love it cherishes.']
[Footnote 9: 'plucks the spirit out of all forms of contracting or agreeing.' We have lost the social and kept only the physical meaning of the noun.]
[Footnote 10: I cannot help thinking the Quarto reading of this passage the more intelligible, as well as much the more powerful. We may imagine a red aurora, by no means a very unusual phenomenon, over the expanse of the sky:—
Heaven's face doth glow (blush)
O'er this solidity and compound mass,
(the earth, solid, material, composite, a corporeal mass in confrontment with the spirit-like etherial, simple, uncompounded heaven leaning over it)
With tristful (or heated, as the reader may choose) visage: as against the doom,
(as in the presence, or in anticipation of the revealing judgment)
Is thought sick at the act.
(thought is sick at the act of the queen)