[_Oli_. I do, I know not what; and fear to find
Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind]
I believe the meaning is; I am not mistress of my own actions, I
am afraid that my eyes betray me, and flatter the youth without
my consent, with discoveries of love.
II.i.15 (169,9) [to express myself] That is, _to reveal myself_.
II.i.28 (169,1) [with such estimable wonder] These words Dr. Warburton
calls _an interpolation of the players_, but what did the players
gain by it? they may be sometimes guilty of a joke without the
concurrence of the poet, but they never lengthen a speech only to
make it longer. Shakespeare often confounds the active and
passive adjectives. _Estimable wonder_ is _esteeming wonder_, or
_wonder and esteem_. The meaning is, that he could not venture to think
so highly as others of his sister.
II.ii.21 (171,2) [her eyes had lost her tongue] [W: crost] That the
fascination of the eyes was called _crossing_ ought to have been
proved. But however that be, the present reading has not only
sense but beauty. We say a man _loses_ his company when they go
one way and he goes another. So Olivia's tongue _lost_ her eyes;
her tongue was talking of the Duke and her eyes gazing on his
messenger.
II.ii.29 (171,3) [the pregnant enemy] is, I believe, the dexterous
fiend, or enemy of mankind. (1773)