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Peer'd forth the golden window of the east[E 1], A troubled mind drave[C 1][E 2] me to walk abroad; Where, underneath the grove of sycamore[E 3]125 That westward rooteth from the city's[C 2] side, So early walking did I see your son: Towards him I made; but he was ware of me, And stole into the covert of the wood: I, measuring his affections by my own,130 Which then most sought where most might not be found,[E 4] Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humour[C 3], not pursuing his[E 5], And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.

Mon.	Many a morning hath he there been seen,135 With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew, Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs: But all so soon as the all-cheering sun Should in the farthest east begin to draw The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,140

1. 124. drave] F, drive Q. 126.
2. 126. the city's] Q1, Malone; this city Q, F.
3. 133. humour] Q, honour F.

1. 123. Peer'd … east] Q1 has Peept for Peer'd. An echo is noted by Holt White in Summa Totalis, 1607: "Peepes through the purple windowes of the East."
2. 124. drave] The Q drive = drave is retained by Mommsen, and examples from Spenser and Jonson are cited. See Daniel's revised ed. of Q. Here Q1 reads, "A troubled thought drew me from companie."
3. 125. sycamore] In Desdemona's song, Othello, iv. iii. 41, the deserted lover sits "sighing by a sycamore tree." Furness quotes W. Westmacott's Scripture Herbal: "Astrologers regard it as one of Venus her trees."
4. 131. Which … found] Pope and several editors substitute for lines 131, 132, the line (from Q1): "That most are busied, when they're most alone." The meaning of line 131 is Which then sought in chief that place where there was least resort of people. Professor G. Allen conjectures "where more might not be found." "Shakespeare," he says "was not the man (in Romeo and Juliet at least) to let slip the chance of running through the Degrees of Comparison, many, more, most."
5. 133. his] Theobald adopted Thirlby's conjecture him.