New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-12
RUN-AwAYS EYES.

~ E<}to~ Of TN " H. fr'osNs'
s,s. As this vezed question has been briskly ssi-
,,,.d .ocs Mrs.. Palmer, in her "Strstford Gallery
,sv,ve5. with new sod pstural arguments, the views
n Mfr. Douce; aoe a. her explanation seems to Dc
,.pdIy growing in favor with Shakespeare schOlsrs,
,srmit me briefly but clearly, to state what thai eA
patton is, as interpret 1t.
"spre.d thy cls.e corssiu. lovs.pehor@Ds Sisht
That rUnswsy's eyes msy wink, aus houleo,
Leso 20 these arms. unt4ited Of and un'eelL
TIL have not misunderstood Mrs. Palmer ana
have the best reason for believing that have not,
.he turns the passage into the PLAN prose Vi
pstuie, thus: v,.,.y
"Draw thy close curtsin, iOTeperto'""g Ssnr
flor Juliet is about 10 meet hef lo'ei .no N'' "uu
for the first time ss hnsoSna!-'"a' runaway
.vesp lnrettily calling herself runaway, truant,
,sbel from the authority of her parents u having
Ioved and welded ore Of the Montsgues, hereditary
enemies Of her family which have been Oh the wstco'
:, an agony of anxiety oil day e,t her lover, her new
vrsa, husband. should be "teen," as well as talked
~ in bis dangerous connection with herl, may
1virk rest from watching, be closed IN the sss1r-
,pce Of security, uoder the projecting cover Vi ue
rie bt because Men Romeo can leap ~ nef arms un
'@as FOR ourseIves she seems to say, ere have no
reed Of light"
SIover. can zee tn do their suorous rites
By their beauties
You perceive, Sf, tAht, iof - my, Ihir, WIZ "S
lolows is trying passage; she may not quite speak
mt Jnets lon ged-foT OF privacy an security
fld q brides expression in the figure OF the close
curtain. - N
d.v est her lover should be " seen-no doubt oe had
been "talked Of" enoDgh in the family. Win The
coming of night she nhy rect iIon her watching, De-
cause that danger viii then longer exist. Now trans
poss the sentence, and at once 1T becomes Psri7ety
clear: "Spread thy close curtain, oveperformng
might that Romeo rosy lesp to these arms untasen
" of ana unseen, and lsol ruoawAys eyes may WINK
which is bat reducing IT 10 natural, c0IIoquai orm
OF expression. 80 o,,.
Mrs Palmer's construction OF the word I" wink, in
the sense of repose from aoxious watching, IS com.
pletely justified by q passage in act =, scene OF
Hapla, wherein POlOpus, III conversation WIN t1e
King and Oueep thus audes to the relations between
Hamlet and Ophelia, and his own conauct IN tha'
efar: ,..,,uu
When had seen this ho. love on the wins
II had played the de.k, or tsbls-book,
Or given nv beat einsiay M. m,'s s,os, sno o"h0i
What might you think3 No, went round to work"
Here ga wirkiug" evidently means rest from watch
INC Poonius claims that be neither failed 10 detect
Isee this " hot love-" DOR boxed upon il with mte
rgbt that s wss indift rem to II. So Juliet prays
for the hiding curt ain Of the night that perseeuIed
Gum- -.ways" may give tber hearts "a wlnking.
II the disputed word be taken In the plural run
avaysl 30 as to include Romeo 10 Mrs. Palmers opin-
ion the case remains ToquOte her oTn words,
ait is even more natural that she tJuletj should
"coupe and name alike, their identc 81 transgres-
"sion" and 10 their identical prsdcament every part
pf this argument far it is an Argument VIII sp-
NV thiIk it as well to mention that Mrs. Palmer
snalysis is her owr thst of Douce quite unknown
10 her until the StrstfOrd Gallery" was prlntsd.
Faithfully yours, Jw.P.
Ntts- York, Jan. g. 1853.