Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] · William Shakespeare
NOTE VI.
II. 4. 192. Theobald's correction, 'mine eye,' or as Mr Spedding suggests, 'my eye' ('my eie' in the original spelling), is supported by a passage in the _Comedy of Errors_, III. 2. 55: 'It is a fault that springeth from your eye.' If this were not satisfactory, another guess might be hazarded: 'Is it mine _unstaid mind_ or Valentine's praise.' The resemblance of 'mine' and 'mind' in the printer's eye (final d and final e being perpetually mistaken for each other) might cause the omission of the two words. 'Valentine' is found as a dissyllable I. 2. 38. 'Sir Valentine's page, &c.': perhaps also III. 1. 191: 'There's not a hair on 's head but 'tis a Valentine,' and, if Capell's arrangement be right, V. 2. 34.
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