113: _Lord_] om. F2 F3 F4.
115: _offence_] _offence'_ (for _offences_) S. Walker conj.
115, 116: _by weight The words_] Ff. _by weight; I' th' words_ Hanmer.
_by weight. The words_ Warburton (after Davenant).
_by weight--The sword_ Roberts conj. _by weight The word_ Halliwell.
_by weight.--The word's_ Becket conj. _by weight--The works_
Jackson conj. See note (V).
117: _yet still 'tis just_] _yet 'tis just still_ S. Walker conj.
121: _every scope_] _liberty_ Wheeler MS.
124: _A thirsty evil_] _An evil thirst_ Davenant's version.
_A thirsted evil_ Spedding conj.
128: _morality_] Rowe (after Davenant). _mortality_ Ff.
141: _denunciation_] _pronunciation_ Collier MS.
143: _propagation_] F2 F3 F4. _propogation_ F1. _prorogation_
Malone conj. _procuration_ Jackson conj. _preservation_ Grant White.
147: _most_] om. Hanmer.
148: _on_] F1. _in_ F2 F3 F4.
151: _fault and_] _flash and_ Johnson conj. _foult or_ Id. conj.
_foil and_ Anon. conj. _fault and_] _flash and_ Johnson conj.
_fault or_ Id. conj. _foil and_ Anon. conj.
_glimpse_] _guise_ Anon. conj.
161: _nineteen_] _fourteen_ Whalley conj.
165: _it is_] _so it is_ Hanmer (who prints line 165-167 as four
verses ending _stands, milkmaid, off, him._
166: _she be_] _she be but_ Hanmer.
173: _voice_] _name_ Wheler MS.
175: _youth_] _zenith_ Johnson conj.
176: _prone_] _prompt_ Johnson conj. _pow'r_ Id. conj. _proue_
Becket conj.
177: _move_] Ff. _moves_ Rowe.
_beside_] _besides_ Capell.
181: _under_] F1. _upon_ F2 F3 F4. _on_ Hanmer, who prints 179-185
as six verses ending _may, like, imposition, be, tick-tack, Lucio._
_imposition_] _inquisition_ Johnson conj. (withdrawn).
182: _the enjoying of_] om. Hanmer.
_who I would_] _which I'd_ Hanmer.
184: _her_] _her strait_ Hanmer.
SCENE III. _A monastery._
_Enter _Duke_ and FRIAR THOMAS._
_Duke._ No, holy father; throw away that thought;
Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee
To give me secret harbour, hath a purpose
More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends 5
Of burning youth.
_Fri. T._ May your grace speak of it?
_Duke._ My holy sir, none better knows than you
How I have ever loved the life removed,
And held in idle price to haunt assemblies
Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps. 10
I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo,
A man of stricture and firm abstinence,
My absolute power and place here in Vienna,
And he supposes me travell'd to Poland;
For so I have strew'd it in the common ear, 15
And so it is received. Now, pious sir,
You will demand of me why I do this?
_Fri. T._ Gladly, my lord.
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