Here 'or' is a correction by Davenant and Rowe of _and_ of the folio. * * * * * "'_T_were equal poise of sin and charity." * * * * * "If that be sin I'll make it my morn-prayer." As Shakespeare has used 'morn' elsewhere but once in a compound, it were better, as the metre requires, to read 'morn_ing_', as Hanmer also read. * * * * * "Or seem so, crafty; and that is not good." Editors read 'craft_ily_'; we might also read 'seem_ing_.' "Or seeming so in skill" (Winter's Tale, ii. 1); but no change is necessary. The folio has 'that's'; hence the reading of the editors, the Cambridge included. * * * * * "Proclaim an enshield beauty." The word 'enshield' occurs nowhere else. It is of course, as Steevens says, enshielded, covered with a shield. To this there is no very great objection; but as elsewhere (Cor. iv. 6) the poet has 'inshell'd,' _i.e._ covered with a shell, it might be better to read so here also, as I find Tyrwhitt has done. * * * * * "Than beauty could display'd.--But mark me _now_." So I think we should read, and not 'displayed' and with the metric accent on 'me.' Perhaps also for 'beauty' we should read _itself_. * * * * * "But in the loss of question." There is no need, with Johnson and others, to change 'loss'; it is quite correct. (See Index _s. v._ 'Lose.') * * * * * "_No._ Ignomy in ransom and free pardon Are of two houses. Lawful mercy is Nothing _a_kin to foul redemption." Sense and metre alike demand the negative, which had evidently been effaced. Steevens also read '_a_kin.' * * * * * "Else let my brother die.-- If not a fedary but only he, Owe and succeed thy weakness."