Capell thus:
'Hear why I speak it, love: The Grecian youths
Are well compos'd, with gifts of nature flowing,
And swelling o'er with arts and exercise:'
Malone reads:
'Hear why I speak it, love;
The Grecian youths are full of quality;
They're loving, well compos'd, with gifts of nature flowing,
And swelling o'er with arts and exercise;'
Mr Knight and Mr Collier give the reading of the second and following Folios, only striking out the comma after 'compos'd.'
Mr Grant White:
'They're loving, well compos'd with gifts of nature,
Flowing and swelling o'er with arts and exercise.'
The reading which we have adopted in the text is that of Mr Staunton. The word 'Flowing' was in all probability a marginal correction for 'swelling,' which the printer of the Folio by mistake added to the line.
Note XII.
IV. 5. 96. The Quarto reads: