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APPENDIX III
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burton's explanation, quotes from The Faithful Friends (Dyce, Beau, and Flet. vol. iv.):
The all-seeing sun, that makes fair virgins blush,
But three short nights hath hid his peeping eyes,
Since that uniting Hymen tied our hearts, etc.
So Mucedorus (noted by Professor Littledale), p. 35, ed. Delius: "The crystal eye of heaven shall not thrice wink," i.e. the sun shall not thrice set.
I would ask the reader to consider my suggestion as to "That runaway's eyes" as offered with some degree of assurance; but to observe that I throw out the notion of pointing "arms! Untalk'd of" merely as a possibility, which ought not to be wholly lost sight of in studying the passage.
