been suggested for 'in,' but no change seems necessary; 'do in' ='bring in, bring upon me.'

I. iv. 54. ‘givings-out,' Rowe; Ff. ' giving-out.'

I. iv. 78. 'make'; Ff. ' makes.'

II. i. 39. 'Some run from brakes of vice, and answer none;' the line as it stands in the Folios- brakes of ice'-which is kept by the Camb. ed., is obviously corrupt, and has occasioned much discussion. Shakespeare probably wrote 'brakes of vice'; brakes = 'tortures, instruments of torture (see Glossary); ' of vice' = resulting from, or due to, vice; 'brakes of vice' is antithetical to a fault alone,' cp. Henry VIII., I ii. 75—

"the rough brake

That virtue must go through."

The passage seems to mean: 'some escape scot-free from the penalties of vice—the rough brakes that vice ought to go through, while others are condemned for a mere fault.'

II. i. 135. ‘an open room'; Schmidt, “public room"; perhaps it means open to sun, light, cheerful.'

II. ii. 79. Like man new made'; commentators are strongly tempted to refer the words to 'new made man,' i.e. Adam; Holt White paraphrased thus:-" And you Angelo, will breathe new life into Claudio, as the Creator animated Adam, by breathing into his nostrils the breath of life." Malone explains:-" You will then appear as tender-hearted and merciful as the first man was in his days of innocence, immediately after his creation." Schmidt and others, "like man redeemed and regenerated by divine grace." The lines are perhaps capable of this interpretation:-And mercy will breathe within your lips, even as Mercy (i.e. God) breathed within the lips of new made man.

II. ii. 90. "Dormiunt aliquando leges, moriuntur nunquam," is a well-known maxim in law (Holt White).

II. ii. 159. 'Where prayers cross,' i.e. where his prayer to possess Isabella crosses with hers, "Heaven keep your honour safe! II. iii. 11. the flaws of her own youth'; possibly Warburton's correction, "flames," should be adopted; cp.

'To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,

And melt in her own fire.'-HAMLET, III. iv. 84.

II. iii. 40. O injurious love' (Folios 'loue'); Hanmer's suggestion, 'law' for 'loue,' has been generally accepted; the law respited her a life whose very comfort' was a dying horror.'

II. iv. 9. fear'd; probably a misprint' feared,' i.e. ' seared.'

II. iv. 103. That longing have been sick for '; Rowe suggested, 'I've been sick for'; for the omission of pronoun, cp. 'Has censured him,' I. iv. 72.

II. iv. 172. O perilous mouths'; the line is defective as it stands. (?) O pernicious mouths' (Walker), or 'these perilous' (Seymour).

III. i. II. thou art death's fool;' the phrase was possibly suggested by the introduction of the

fool into most of the old dances

of death, one of which was the original source of the accompanying initial from Stowe's Survey of London (1618).

III. i. 94, 97. Prensie; the source of this strange word has baffled students; it seems identical with the Scottish primsie, 'demure, precise,' which in its turn is connected with prim (in Old French prin pren) under any circumstances there is no reason why the word should be changed, as has been proposed, to

'princely,' the reading of the 2nd Folio, or 'priestly,' 'pensive,'

etc.

III. i. 123.

"or to reside

In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;"

Cp. the following cut from Pynson's edition of the Kalender of Shepherdes (1506).

III. ii. 9. "The passage seems to us to imply, furred (that is, lined with lamb-skin fur inside, and trimmed with fox-skin fur outside) with both kinds of fur, to show that craft (fox-skin), being richer than innocency (lamb-skin), is used for decoration" (Clarke).

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III. ii. 12-14. Good father friar' . .

'good brother father'; the joke, as Tyrwhitt pointed out, would be clearer in French,

III. ii. 41. Free from our faults, as faults from seeming free!'

so F2 F (with comma after seeming); F, from our faults,' etc., retained by Camb. Ed., but the reading adopted commends itself from metrical and other considerations, i.e., "Would that we were as free from faults, as our faults are from seeming (hypocrisy)." Hanmer proposed, 'from our faults as from faults seeming free.' If any correction is really necessary, one feels inclined to hazard'Free from our faults, as from false seeming, free!'

(Cp. thy false seeming,' II. iv. 15.)

III. ii. 242. security enough to make fellowships accurst'; cp. Prov. xi. 15.

III. ii. 276-298. These lines are in all probability not Shakespeare's.

III. ii. 280. Grace to stand, and virtue go;' i.e. To have grace to stand firm, and virtue to go forward.'

III. ii. 289-292. 'How may likeness made in crimes,' etc.; these lines do not readily admit of interpretation, and some corruption has probably crept into the text; Malone suggested wade for

made, i.e. "How may hypocrisy wade in crimes; " Hanmer, 'that likeness shading crimes,' etc. None of the suggestions seem very satisfactory. Perhaps to draw-to-draw,' i.e. 'pull to pieces' (?).

IV. i. 1. This song appears in Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brother, with the addition of the following stanza, assuredly not Shakespeare's, though found in the spurious edition of his poems, (1640)—

"Hide, O hide those hills of snow
Which thy frozen bosom bears,
On whose tops the pinks that grow
Are of those that April wears;
But first set my poor heart free,
Bound by those icy chains by thee."

IV. i. 13. “Though the music soothed my sorrows, it had no tendency to produce light merriment" (Johnson).

IV. i. 76. tilth'; Theobald's emendation for tithe,' the reading of Ff., retained by Camb. Ed.

IV. ii. 45-49. if it be too little-thief; the Folios give this to Clo. (Pompey); Capell first transferred it to Abhorson, and he has been followed by most editors. Cowden Clarke defends the Folio arrangement; among other arguments he maintains that "the speech is much more in character with the clown's snip-snap style of chop-logic than with Abhorson's manner, which is remarkably curt and bluff."

IV. iv. 6. redeliver'; Folio 1, 're-liuer'; Folio 2, 'deliuer'; Capell first suggested' redeliver?'

IV. iv. 28. bears of a credent bulk'; so Folios 1, 2, 3; many emendations have been proposed; the reading of F. seems the most plausible-bears off a credent bulk'; 'credent bulk' = 'weight of credit.'

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V. i. 64. do not banish reason For inequality; i.e. because of 'improbability,' 'incongruity,' or, according to some, 'partiality.' V. i. 323. These shops," according to Nares, were places of great resort, for passing away time in an idle manner. By way of enforcing some kind of regularity, and perhaps at least as much to promote drinking, certain laws were usually hung up. the transgression of which was to be punished by specific forfeitures. It is not to be wondered that laws of that nature were as often laughed at as obeyed."

V. i. 359. 'be hanged an hour' seems to have been a cant phrase, meaning little more than 'be hanged!'

V. i. 360. 'madest,' monosyllabic; Ff. 'mad'st'; Capell made.' V. i. 496. Give me your hand'; i.e. if you give me your hand. V. i. 526. "pressing to death,"=" peine forte et dure": illustrated by the accompanying drawing.