"Griefs of my own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt _propagate_, to have it press'd, With more of thine."--Rom. and Jul. i. 1. "To give thanks to the gods of Rome, That for the _propagation_ of the empire Vouchsafe us one to govern it like themselves." Massinger, Rom. Actor. i. 3. And portions--as we learn by Sir Moth Interest in Jonson's Magnetic Lady--used to double in seven years. The same play would also justify Malone's reading, as guardians were not always willing to part with dowers in their hands. Perhaps for 'of _a_ dower' we should read 'of _her_ dower,' for the _h_ in _her_ not being pronounced, and the _r_ but slightly, the printer might easily make the mistake; so also 'coffer' should probably be 'coffers.' * * * * * SC. 4. "For terror not to use, in time the rod More mock'd than fear'd, so our decrees Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead." In the second line _Becomes_ was added by Pope, or rather by Davenant, and it has been adopted by subsequent editors. Yet the poet may have written, and I think did write, 'the rod _is_' and 'More mocked _at_.' * * * * * "And yet my nature never in the fight _have_ To do in slander." * * * * * "How I may formally in person bear _me_." * * * * * "Only this one _now_: Lord Angelo is precise." * * * * * SC. 5. "Sir, make me not your story." For 'story' Singer would read _sport_; but 'me' may be '_to_ me,' and her meaning be, seek not to impose on me. * * * * * "As those that feed grow full; as blossoming time That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison ... even so her plenteous womb," etc. * * * * * "The Duke, _who_ is very strangely gone from hence, Bore many gentlemen, myself being one, In hand and hope of action." As _in_ and _and_ are so frequently confounded (see on iii. 2 _ad fin._) I would read _in_ for 'and' in the last line. ACT II. SC. 1. "Err'd in this point which now you censure him _for_." * * * * * "What's open made To justice, that justice seizes. What know the laws?" * * * * * "Some run from brakes of ice and answer none, And some _are_ condemn'd for a fault alone."