The reasoning is thus: Angelo asks, whether there might _not be a charity in sin to save this brother_. Isabella answers, that _if Angelo will save him, she will stake her soul that it were charity, not sin_. Angelo replies, that if Isabella would _save him at the hazard of her soul, it would be not indeed no sin, but a sin to which the charity would be equivalent_. II.iv.73 (56,7) [And nothing of your answer] I think it should be read, _And nothing of_ yours _answer_. You, and whatever is _yours_, be exempt from penalty. II.iv.86 (56,9) [Accountant to the law upon that pain] _Pain_ is here for _penalty, punishment_. II.iv.90 (57,2) [But in the loss of question,] The _loss_ of question I do not well understand, and should rather read, _But in the_ toss _of question_. In the _agitation_, in the _discussion_ of the question. To _toss_ an argument is a common phrase. II.iv.106 (57,4) [a brother dy'd at once] Perhaps we should read, _Better it were, a brother died_ for _once, Than that a sister, by redeeming him. Should die_ for _ever_. II.iv.123 (58,6) [Owe, and succeed by weakness] To _owe_ is, in this place, to _own_, to _hold_, to have possession. II.iv.125 (59,7) [the glasses where they view themselves; Which are as easily broke, as they make forms] Would it not be better to read, ----take _forms_. II.iv.128 (59,8) [In profiting by them] In imitating them, in taking them for examples. II.iv.139 (59,1) [I have no tongue but one. Gentle my lord, Let me intreat you, speak the former language] Isabella answers to his circumlocutory courtship, that she has but _one tongue_, she does not understand this new phrase, and desires him to talk his _former language_, that is, to talk as he talked before. II.iv.150 (60,3) [Seeming, seeming!] Hypocrisy, hypocrisy; counterfeit virtue. II.iv.156 (60,4) [My Touch against you] [The calling his denial of her charge _his vouch_, has something fine. _Vouch_ is the testimony one man bears for another. So that, by this, he insinuates his authority was so great, that his _denial_ would have the same credit that a _vouch_ or testimony has in ordinary cases. Warburton.] I believe this beauty is merely imaginary, and that _vouch against_ means no more than denial. II.iv.165 (60,5) [die the death] This seems to be a solemn phrase for death inflicted by law. So in _Midsummer Night's Dream_. _Prepare_ to die the death. II.iv.178 (61,6) [prompture] Suggestion, temptation, instigation. III.i.5 (62,8) [Be absolute for death] Be determined to die, without any hope of life. _Horace_,-- --_The hour, which exceeds expectation will be welcome._ III.i.7 (62,9) [I do lose a thing, That none but fools would keep] [W: would reck] The meaning seems plainly this, that _none but fools would_ wish _to keep life_; or, _none but fools would keep_ it, if choice were allowed. A sense, which whether true or not, is certainly innocent.