II. 4. 103. 'That longing have been sick for.' Delius says in his note on this passage, 'Das _I_ vor _have_ lässt sich nach Shaksperischer Licenz leicht suppliren.' The second person singular of the governing pronoun is frequently omitted by Shakespeare in familiar questions, but, as to the first and third persons, his usage rarely differs from the modern. If the text be genuine, we have an instance in this play of the omission of the third person singular I. 4. 72, 'Has censured him.' See also the early Quarto of the _Merry Wives of Windsor_, Sc. XIV. l. 40, p. 285 of our reprint: 'Ile cloath my daughter, and aduertise _Slender_ To know her by that signe, and steale her thence, And vnknowne to my wife, shall marrie her.' NOTE XII. II. 4. 111-113. Mr Sidney Walker adopts Steevens' emendation, and affirms that among all the metrical licenses used by Shakespeare, the omission of the final syllable of the line is not one. But if the reading of the first Folio be allowed to stand, we can find many instances of lines which want the final syllable. The line immediately preceding may be so scanned: 'Ignomy in ransom and free pardon.' And in this same scene, line 143, we have 'And you tell me that he shall die for't.' And in V. 1. 83: 'The warrant's for yourself; take heed to't.' It is conceivable that 'mercy' may be pronounced as a trisyllable; but in all the undoubted examples of such a metrical license, the liquid is the second of the two consonants, not the first. See, however, S. Walker's _Shakespeare's Versification_, pp. 207 sqq. Possibly a word may have dropt out, and the original passage may have stood thus: 'Ignomy in ransom and free pardon are Of two _opposed_ houses: lawful mercy Is nothing kin to foul redemption.' NOTE XIII. III. 1. 29. Mr Collier's copy of the second Folio has 'sire.' _Notes and Queries_, Vol. VI. p. 141. NOTE XIV. III. 1. 56, 57. The metrical arrangement is uncertain here. It is not probable that the last word of the Duke's speech, 'concealed,' should be the first of a line which would be interrupted by his exit. Perhaps, too, the true reading of the following line may have been: 'As comforts all are good, most good indeed.' NOTE XV. III. 1. 91, 94. The word 'prenzie,' occurring, as it does, twice in this passage, rests on such strong authority that it is better to seek to explain than to alter it. It may be etymologically connected with 'prin,' in old French, meaning 'demure;' also with 'princox,' a 'coxcomb,' and with the word 'prender,' which occurs more than once in Skelton: e.g. 'This pevysh proud, this prender gest, When he is well, yet can he not rest.' Mr Bullock mentions, in support of his conjecture, that 'pensie' is still used in some north-country dialects. 'Primsie' is also found in Burns' poems with the signification of 'demure, precise,' according to the glossary. NOTE XVI.