thoughts ..._ Theobald. _those--that ...
thought--Imagine_ Hanmer. _those whom ... thought Imagines_
Heath conj. (after Davenant).
127: _penury_] F2 F3 F4. _periury_ F1.
_and_] om. Pope.
138: _shield_] F1. _shield:_ F2 F3 F4. _grant_ Pope.
141: _but my_] _my only_ Pope.
145: _Nay_] om. Pope.
148: [Going. Capell.
149: SCENE III. Pope.
Re-enter Duke] Capell. Duke steps in. F2. om. F1.
Enter Duke and Provost. Rowe.
155: [Walks apart] Capell.
163: _satisfy_] _falsify_ Hanmer.
168: [Exit C.] Exit. F2, after line 167, om. F1. See note (XVII).
174: Exit ... forward] Edd. [Exit. F2 om. F1.
176: _cheap_] _chief_ Collier MS.
177: _in goodness_] _in such goodness_ Hanmer.
179: _to you_] _on you_ Hanmer.
183: _him:_] _him,_ Dyce.
190, 191: _advisings: ... good_] Pope. _advisings,... good;_ Ff.
192: _uprighteously_] _uprightly_ Pope.
197: _farther_] _, father_ F4.
204: _She_] _Her_ Pope.
_was_] _he was_ Hanmer.
205: _by_] om. F1.
_and_] om. F4.
217: _few_] F1 F2. _few words_ F3 F4.
_her on_] _on her_ Capell conj.
219: _a marble_] _as marble_ Anon. conj.
_tears_] F1. _ears_ F2 F3 F4.
228: _unkindness_] _kindness_ Pope.
236: _granted in course,--and now_] _granted incourse, and now_ Ff.
_granted, in course now_ Pope.
241: _scaled_] _foiled_ Grant White.
244: _from_] _and_ Rowe.
255: [Exeunt severally] [Exit Ff.
SCENE II. _The street before the prison._
_Enter, on one side, DUKE disguised as before; on the other, ELBOW,
and _Officers_ with POMPEY._
_Elb._ Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you
will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we
shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.
_Duke._ O heavens! what stuff is here?
_Pom._ 'Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, 5
the merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by
order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and furred
with fox and lamb-skins too, to signify, that craft,
being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.
_Elb._ Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good father friar. 10
_Duke._ And you, good brother father. What offence
hath this man made you, sir?
_Elb._ Marry, sir, he hath offended the law: and, sir, we
take him to be a thief too, sir; for we have found upon him,
sir, a strange picklock, which we have sent to the Deputy. 15
_Duke._ Fie, sirrah! a bawd, a wicked bawd!
The evil that thou causest to be done,
That is thy means to live. Do thou but think
What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back
From such a filthy vice: say to thyself, 20
From their abominable and beastly touches
I drink, I eat, array myself, and live.
Canst thou believe thy living is a life,
So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend.
_Pom._ Indeed, it does stink in some sort, sir; but yet, 25
sir, I would prove--
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