DUKE. It well becomes that judge to nod at crimes, That does commit greater himself, and lives. I may forgive a disobedient error, That expect pardon for adultery, And in my old days am a youth in lust. Many a beauty have I turn'd to poison In the denial, covetous of all. Age hot is like a monster to be seen; My hairs are white, and yet my sins are green. FOOTNOTES: [34] [Edits., _myself_. Gilchrist's correction.] [35] [Old copy, _by their_.] [36] [_i.e._, Next heir.] [37] [Query, wheel of fortune. Perhaps we should read _weal_.] [38] [Edits., _fool_.] [39] See note on p. 40. [40] [Old copy, _suffering_.] [41] [A MS. note in one of the former edits., refers us to the closet scene in "Hamlet."] [42] _i.e._, Embrace it. So again in this play-- "Here in this lodge they meet for damned _clips_." _i.e._, cursed embraces.--_Steevens._ [43] [Copies, _you_. This emendation was suggested by a MS. note in one of the former edits.] [44] Alluding to the custom of hanging _hats_ in ancient halls upon _stags' horns_.--_Steevens._ [45] So in Lodge's "Wit's Miserie," p. 24: "What think you to a tender faire young, nay a weakling of womankind _to wear whole Lordships and Manor-houses on her backe without sweating_?" See also note to "The Miseries of Enforced Marriage," [ix. 490.] [46] [Old copy, _and met again_. The word _mete_ occurs again a little lower down. The meaning may be that they calculated their savings.] [47] _i.e._, Measured. Petruchio, in "The Taming of the Shrew," calls the tailor's measuring-yard his _mete_-yard.--_Steevens._ [48] _i.e._, Honesty.--_Gilchrist._ [49] ["What splendid power of passion and imagery there is in this!"--_MS. note in one of the former edits._] [50] _i.e._, Intimate. See note to "The Spanish Tragedy," [v. 168] [51] [Old copy, _a fellow_.] [52] I decline, or lessen in courage. So Falstaff says: "Do I not _bate_? Do I not dwindle?" &c. [53] [Edits., _did me I_.] [54] _i.e._, Quick to understand. See Mr Steevens's note on "The Second Part of King Henry IV.," act iv. sc. 3. [55] Alluding to the promise in the Fifth Commandment. [56] [In their night-clothes.] [57] Alluding to the custom of entering horses sold at fairs in a book called the "Toll-book." See note to "All's Well that Ends Well," edit. 1766, of Shakespeare, iv. 141.--_Steevens._ [58] [Edits., _Push_.] [59] Mr Reed assigned these two lines to Hippolito, a decided error, both by the sense and according to the old copy, which gives them to Vendice. He makes his brother stand back, while he addresses Lusurioso: _My good lord_; and Lusurioso naturally observes: _Piato! why, the man I wished for,_ &c.--_Collier_. [60] [Edits., _lawyer's_.] [61] [Defile.] See note to "The Miseries of Enforced Marriage," [ix. 511.] [62] The quarto reads, _flight_. [63] [Liars.] [64] [See at p. 53 the passage, _our office shall be sound_. In both places the word means, constant, true.]