"This outward-sainted deputy,-- Whose settled visage and deliberate word Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth emmew, As falcon doth the fowl,--is yet a devil; His filth within being cast, he would appear A pond as deep as hell." Whereupon (according to the reading of the folio of 1623) Claudio, who is aware of Angelo's reputation for sanctity, exclaims in astonishment: "The _prenzie_ Angelo?" To which Isabella replies (according to the reading of the same edition): "O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell, The damned'st body to invest and cover In _prenzie_ guards! Dost thou think, Claudio, If I would yield him my virginity, Thou might'st be freed?" Claudio, still incredulous, rejoins: "O, heavens! it cannot be." The word _prenzie_ has given rise to much annotation, and it seems to be universally agreed that the word is a misprint. The question is, what was the word actually written, or intended, by Shakspeare? Steevens and Malone suggested "princely;" Warburton, "priestly;" and Tieck, "precise." Mr. Knight adopts "precise," the reading of Tieck, and thinks "that, having to choose some word which would have the double merit of agreeing with the sense of the passage and be similar in the number and form of the letters, nothing can be more unfortunate than the correction of "princely;" Mr. Collier, on the other hand, follows Steevens and Malone, and reads "princely," observing the Tieck's reading ("precise") "sounds ill as regards the metre, the accent falling on the wrong syllable. Mr. Collier's choice is determined by the _authority_ of the second folio, which he considers ought to have considerable weight, whilst Mr. Knight regards the authority of that edition as very trifling; and the only point of agreement between the two distinguished recent editors is with respect to Warburton's word "priestly," which they both seem to think nearly conveys the meaning of the poet.