Benjamin Victor, from his adaptation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona

It is the general opinion that this comedy abounds with weeds, and there is no one, I think, will deny, who peruses it with attention, that it is adorned with several poetical flowers such as the hand of a Shakespeare alone could raise. The rankest of those weeds I have endeavoured to remove; but was not a little solicitous lest I should go too far and, while I fancy’d myself grubbing up a weed, should heedlessly cut the threads of a flower.