ce.

_Duke._ If his own life answer the straitness of his
proceeding, it shall become him well; wherein if he chance to 240
fail, he hath sentenced himself.

_Escal._ I am going to visit the prisoner. Fare you well.

_Duke._ Peace be with you! [_Exeunt Escalus and Provost._

He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe; 245
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go;
More nor less to others paying
Than by self-offences weighing.
Shame to him whose cruel striking 250
Kills for faults of his own liking!
Twice treble shame on Angelo,
To weed my vice and let his grow!
O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side! 255
How may likeness made in crimes,
Making practice on the times,
To draw with idle spiders' strings
Most ponderous and substantial things!
Craft against vice I must apply: 260
With Angelo to-night shall lie
His old betrothed but despised;
So disguise shall, by the disguised,
Pay with falsehood false exacting,
And perform an old contracting. [_Exit._ 265

NOTES: III, 2.

SCENE II.] om. Ff. SCENE IV. Pope.
Enter ... Pompey] Enter Elbow, Clowne, Officers. Ff.
5: _usuries_] _usancies_ Collier MS.
7: Punctuated as in Hanmer. Ff place a semicolon after _law_.
Pope a full stop. Warburton supposes a line or two to be lost.
_furred gown_] _furred lambskin gown_ Capell.
8: _fox and lamb-skins_] _fox-skins_ Capell. _fox on lamb-skins_
Mason conj.
11: _father_] om. Johnson conj.
22: _eat, array myself_] Theobald (Bishop conj.).
_eat away myself_ Ff.
24: _Go mend, go mend_] _Go mend, mend_ Pope.
25: _does_] _doth_ Pope.
36: _From our faults_] F1. _Free from our faults_ F2 F3.
_Free from all faults_ F4.
_as faults from seeming_] _as from faults seeming_ Hanmer.
_or from false seeming_ Johnson conj.
_or faults from seeming_ Id. conj.
36: SCENE V. [Enter LUCIO. Pope.
37: _waist_] Johnson, ed. 1778. _wast_ F1 F2 F3. _waste_ F4.
40: _wheels_] _heels_ Steevens.
43: _it_] Pope. om. Ff.
44, 45: _this tune ... Is't not_]
_this? tune ... method,--is't not?_ Johnson conj.
45: _matter and method] the matter and the method_ Hanmer.
_Is't not ... rain_] _It's not down in the last reign_ Warburton.
46: _Trot_] _to't_ Dyce (Gr