Saucy, wanton; II. iv. 45. Scaled, weighed (or perhaps "stripped" as of scales, unmasked; "foiled" has been suggested as an emendation); III. i. 264. Scope, power; I. i. 65; licence; I. ii. 126; I. iii. 35. Scruple, very small quantity; I. i. 38; doubtful perplexity; I. i. 65. Secondary, subordinate; I. i. 47. Sects, classes, ranks. II. ii. 5. See Rome; III. ii. 233. Seeming, hypocrisy; II. iv. 150. Seldom when, i.e. 'tis seldom that; IV. ii. 89. Serpigo, a dry eruption on the skin; III. i. 31. 46 Several, different; II. iv. 2. Shears; "there went but a pair of shears between us," i.e. we are both of the same piece"; I. ii. 28. Sheep-biting, thievish; V. i. 358. Shield, forfend; "Heaven S. my mother play'd my father fair," i.e. "God grant that thou wert not my father's true son"; III. i. 141. Shrewd, evil, mischievous; II. i. 253. Sicles (the Folios "sickles"), shekels; II. ii. 149. Siege, seat; IV. ii. 101. Sith, since; I. ii. 35. Smack, have a taste, savour; II. ii. 5. Snatches, repartees; IV. ii. 6. 234. Stage, to make a show of; I. i. 69. Stagger, waver, hesitate; I. ii. 164. Starkly, stiffly, as if dead; IV. ii. 69. Stays upon, waits for; IV. i. 47. Stead, be of service to; I. iv. 17. Stead up, to supply; III. i. 258. 271. Stricture, strictness; I. iii. 12. Succeed, inherit; II. iv. 123. Sufferance, suffering;; III. i. 80. Sweat, the plague was popularly known as "the sweating sickness"; I. ii. 82. Sweetness, self-indulgence; II. iv. 45. Swinged, whipped; V. i. 130. Tax, accuse; II. iv. 79. Temporary meddler, one who meddles with temporal matters; V. i. 145. Critical Notes. BY ISRAEL GOLLANCZ. I. i. 8, 9. There is no gap between 'sufficiency' and 'as' in the Folios. Theobald first advanced the plausible theory that the obscurity of the passage was due to some careless omission on the part of the printers. The Camb. Ed., accepting Theobald's theory, indicates the omission by means of dots. Various attempts have been made to explain the lines, e.g. "But that to your sufficiences your worth is abled” (Johnson); “But your sufficiency as worth is able" (Farmer); Theobald's suggestion has been adopted in the present edition. I. i. 43. Hold therefore, Angelo'; the Duke probably says these words on tendering commission to Angelo. I. ii. 28. There went but a pair of shears between us;' i.e. 'we are of one piece.' I. ii. 119. by weight the words,' so Ff., by weight; I' the words,' Hanmer; perhaps, as Johnson conjectured, a line las dropped out. I. ii. 120. Cp. St. Paul to the Romans, ix. 15, 18: “For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy," and again, "Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth." I. ii. 133. Morality'; the Folios misprint 'mortality.' I. ii. 149. Propagation'; Folio 1 reads propogation, corrected in Folio 2; prorogation, procuration, preservation, have been suggested by various editors, but the text as it stands is probably correct, though not altogether clear; 'propagation': 'increase '; perhaps the word implies increase of interest,' and 'for propacation''that she might continue to receive the interest, which was to be hers while she remained unmarried.' I. iii. 10. and witless,' F2 F, F.; Fi witless'; Nicholson conj. 'a witless.' I. iii. 27. 'Becomes,' added by Pope (after Davenant); Ff. omit the verb. I. iii. 43. To do in slander'; so the Folios; 'me' and 'it' have |