_Lucio._ I warrant it is: and thy head stands so tickle 165
on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may
sigh it off. Send after the duke, and appeal to him.
_Claud._ I have done so, but he's not to be found.
I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service:
This day my sister should the cloister enter 170
And there receive her approbation:
Acquaint her with the danger of my state;
Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends
To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him:
I have great hope in that; for in her youth 175
There is a prone and speechless dialect,
Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art
When she will play with reason and discourse,
And well she can persuade.
_Lucio._ I pray she may; as well for the encouragement 180
of the like, which else would stand under grievous imposition,
as for the enjoying of thy life, who I would be sorry
should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack. I'll
to her.
_Claud._ I thank you, good friend Lucio. 185
_Lucio._ Within two hours.
_Claud._ Come, officer, away!
[_Exeunt._
NOTES: I, 2.
SCENE II.] SCENE III. Pope.
12: First Gent. _Why, 'twas_] 1. Gent. _Why? 'twas_ Ff.
First Gent. _Why?_ Luc. _'Twas_ Singer.
15: _before_] _after_ Hanmer. See note (II).
_do_] _doth_ Hanmer. _does_ Warburton.
22-26: Lucio. _In any proportion ... language._ First Gent. _I think
... religion._ Lucio. _Ay, why not?... all grace._] Lucio. _Not in
any profession ... language, I ... religion._ 2. Gent. _And why
not?... controversy._ Lucio. _As for ... all grace._ Hanmer.
See note (III).
29: _lists_] _list_ Anon. conj.
42: Here Ff have _Enter Bawde_, transferred by Theobald to line 56.
43: SCENE IV. Pope. Bawd coming at a distance. Hanmer.
44: _I have_] 1. Gent. _I have_ Pope (ed. 2). _He has_ Halliwell.
48: _dolours_] Rowe. _dollours_ Ff. _dollars_ Pope.
56: SCENE IV. Johnson.
65: _head_] _head is_ Rowe. _head's_ Capell.
81: SCENE V. Pope.
88: _with maid_] _with-made_ Seymour conj.
91: _houses_] _bawdy houses_ Tyrwhitt conj.
96: _all_] om. Pope.
110: SCÆNA TERTIA. Ff.
Juliet] Ff. Gaoler. Halliwell. om. Collier MS. See note (IV).
[Transcriber's Note:
Pope's Scene I.VI is not mentioned, but presumably begins here.]
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