For 'Yes' the metre demands _I will_, as I have printed it. See Introd. p. 68. * * * * * "That age, ache, penury, or imprisonment." The folio reads _perjury_; 'penury' is the correction of the 2nd folio. * * * * * "Stead up your appointment, _and_ go in your place." * * * * * SC. 2. "I drink, I eat, array myself, and live." The folio reads _away_. Theobald's correction, 'array,' is self-evident. * * * * * "You will not bail me then, sir? _Neither_ then, Pompey, nor now." Both metre and sense require _Neither_. * * * * * "Ha, what sayest thou, trot?" I adopt Grey's reading, _to't_ for 'trot.' He has just asked a question, and he is repeating it. * * * * * "I know _of_ none. Can you tell me of any?" * * * * * "And that he is a motion generative." With Theobald I read '_un_generative.' * * * * * "Yes, _with_ your beggar of fifty, and his use was." * * * * * "And knowledge with dearer love." The folio has _deare_; the obvious correction is Hanmer's. * * * * * "He's now past it, yet." With Hanmer I read _not_ for 'now.' * * * * * "_My lord_, so please you, this friar hath been with him." The metre requires this addition, which also relieves the Provost's speech from abruptness. * * * * * "Of gracious order, late come from the See." The folio reads _Sea_. This wrong spelling was not unusual. In King John (iii. 1) we have 'holy Sea' used of Canterbury. As 'See' never occurs thus alone, we might read 'the _Holy_ See,' or rather, as I have done, "the See _of Rome_;" "I Pandulph ... Legate from the See of Rome." (Old Play of King John.) For a similar effacement see Ant. and Cleop. ii. 4. * * * * * "He who the sword of Heaven will bear Must be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand and virtue go." The last line is evidently corrupt. I would read, "_In_ grace to stand, in virtue go," in which I had been anticipated by Johnson. We have more than one instance of _in_ being effaced in the beginning of a line; and such having been the case here, the printer, to get some appearance of sense, converted the remaining 'in' to _and_--also a usual change. 'To know,' 'to stand,' 'to go,' are equivalent to _knowing_, etc. (See Introd. p. 70.) For 'know,' I, as well as Mr. Staunton, had conjectured _show_; but no change is needed. * * * * * "How may likeness made in crimes, Making practice on the times, To draw with idle spider's strings Most ponderous and substantial things!"