_Lucio._ But speedily. _Isab._ I will about it straight; 85 No longer staying but to give the Mother Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you: Commend me to my brother: soon at night I'll send him certain word of my success. _Lucio._ I take my leave of you. _Isab._ Good sir, adieu. 90 [_Exeunt._ NOTES: I, 4. SCENE IV.] SCENA QUINTA Ff. SCENE VIII. Pope. 5: _sisterhood, the votarists_] _sister votarists_ Pope. 27: _For that which_] _That for which_ Malone conj. 30: _make me not your story_] _mock me not:--your story_ Malone. _make me not your scorn_ Collier MS. (after Davenant). _make ... sport_ Singer. _It is true_] Steevens. _'Tis true_ Ff. om. Pope. _Nay, tis true_ Capell. 31: _I would not_] Malone puts a full stop here. 40: _have_] _having_ Rowe. 42: _That ... brings_] _Doth ... bring_ Hanmer. _seedness_] _seeding_ Collier MS. 44: _his_] _its_ Hanmer. 49: _O, let him_] F1. _Let him_ F2 F3 F4. _Let him then_ Pope. 50: _is_] _who's_ Collier MS. 52: _and_] _with_ Johnson conj. _do_] om. Pope. 54: _givings-out_] Rowe. _giving-out_ Ff. 60: _his_] _it's_ Capell. 63: _for long_] _long time_ Pope. 68: _hope is_] _hope's_ Pope. 70: _pith of business 'Twixt_] _pith Of business betwixt_ Hanmer. See note (VI). _pith of_] om. Pope. 72: _so seek_] _so, Seeke_ Ff. _so? seek_ Edd. conj. _Has_] _H'as_ Theobald. 71-75: Ff end the lines thus:-- _so,--already--warrant--poor--good._ Capell first gave the arrangement in the text. 73: _as_] om. Hanmer. 74: _A warrant for his_] _a warrant For's_ Ff. 78: _make_] Pope. _makes_ Ff. 82: _freely_] F1. _truely_ F2 F3 F4. Enter _Provost_ inserted by Capell. ACT II. SCENE I. _A hall in ANGELO'S house._ _Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, and a _Justice, Provost, Officers_, and other _Attendants_, behind._ _Ang._ We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. _Escal._ Ay, but yet Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, 5 Than fall, and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman, Whom I would save, had a most noble father! Let but your honour know, Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue, That, in the working of your own affections, 10 Had time cohered with place or place with wishing, Or that the resolute acting of your blood Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose, Whether you had not sometime in your life Err'd in this point which now you censure him, 15 And pull'd the law upon you.