But I know not how to apply the word in this sense to _unity_. I read, If there be rule in _purity_ itself, Or, If there be rule in _verity_ itself. Such alterations would not offend the reader, who saw the state of the old editions, in which, for instance, a few lines lower, _the almighty sun_ is called _the almighty fenne_.--Yet the words may at last mean, If there be _certainty_ in _unity_, if it be a _rule_ that _one is one_. V.ii.144 (130,3) Bi-fold authority!] This is the reading of the quarto. The folio gives us, _By foul_ authority!-- There is _madness_ in that disquisition in which a man reasons at once _for_ and _against himself upon authority_ which he knows _not to be valid_. The quarto is right. V.ii.144 (130,4) where reason can revolt Without perdition, and loss assume all reason Without revolt] The words _loss_ and _perdition_ are used in their common sense, but they mean the _loss_ or _perdition_ of _reason_. V.ii.157 (131,6) And with another knot five-finger-tied] A knot tied by giving her hand to Diomed. V.ii.160 (131,7) o'er-eaten faith] Vows which she has already swallowed _once over_. We still say of a faithless man, that he has _eaten his words_. V.ii.161 (131,8) _Ulyss._ May worthy Troilus be half attach'd With that which here his passion doth express!] Can Troilus really feel on this occasion half of what he utters? A question suitable to the calm Ulysses. V.iii.21 (133,2) For us to count we give what's gain'd by thefts, And rob in the behalf of charity] This is so oddly confused in the folio, that I transcribe it as a specimen of incorrectness: --do not count it holy, To hurt by being just; it were as lawful _For we would count give much to as violent thefts_, And rob in the behalf of charity. V.iii.23 (133,3) _Cas._ It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold] The mad prophetess speaks here with all the coolness and judgment of a skilful casuist. "The essence of a lawful vow, is a lawful purpose, and the vow of which the end is wrong must not be regarded as cogent." V.iii.27 (134,4) Life every man holds dear; but the dear man Holds honour far more precious dear than life] _Valuable_ man. The modern editions read, --_brave_ man. The repetition of the word is in our author's manner. V.iii.37 (134,5) Brother, you have a vice of mercy in you, Which better fits a lion, than a man] The traditions and stories of the darker ages abounded with examples of the lion's generosity. Upon the supposition that these acts of clemency were true, Troilus reasons not improperly, that to spare against reason, by mere instinct of pity, became rather a generous beast than a wise man. V.x.33 (137,9) Hence, broker lacquey!] For _brothel_, the folio reads _brother_, erroneously for _broker_, as it stands at the end of the play where the lines are repeated. Of _brother_ the following editors made _brothel_.