I may formally in person bear me
Like a true friar. More reasons for this action
At our more leisure shall I render you;
Only, this one: Lord Angelo is precise; 50
Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses
That his blood flows, or that his appetite
Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see,
If power change purpose, what our seemers be. [_Exeunt._

NOTES: I, 3.

SCENE III.] SCENA QUARTA Ff. SCENE VII. Pope.
3: _bosom_] _breast_ Pope.
10: _and witless_] F2 F3 F4. _witless_ F1. _with witless_ Edd. conj.
_keeps_] _keep_ Hammer.
12: _stricture_] _strictness_ Davenant's version. _strict ure_
Warburton.
15: _For_] _Far_ F2.
20: _to_] F1. _for_ F2 F3 F4.
_weeds_] Ff. _steeds_ Theobald. _wills_ S. Walker conj.
21: _this_] _these_ Theobald.
_fourteen_] _nineteen_ Theobald.
_slip_] Ff. _sleep_ Theobald (after Davenant).
25: _to_] _do_ Dent. MS.
26: _terror_] F1. _errour_ F2 F3 F4.
26, 27: _the rod Becomes more ... decrees_] Pope (after Davenant).
_the rod More ... decrees_ Ff. _the rod's More ... most just
decrees_ Collier MS.
27: _mock'd_] _markt_ Davenant's version.
34: _do_] om. Pope.
37: _be done_] om. Pope.
39: _the_] _their_ Dyce conj.
_indeed_] om. Pope.
42, 43: _fight To do in slander_] _sight To do in slander_ Pope.
_fight So do in slander_ Theobald. _sight To do it slander_ Hanmer.
_sight, So doing slander'd_ Johnson conj.
_sight To draw on slander_ Collier MS.
_right To do him slander_ Singer conj.
_light To do it slander_ Dyce conj.
_fight To do me slander_ Halliwell.
_win the fight To die in slander_ Staunton conj.
_never ... slander_] _ever in the fight To dole in slander_
Jackson conj.
43: _And_] om. Pope.
45: _I_] om. Pope.
47: _in person bear me_] Capell. _in person beare_ Ff.
_my person bear_ Pope.
49: _our_] F1. _your_ F2 F3 F4.

SCENE IV. _A nunnery._

_Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA._

_Isab._ And have you nuns no farther privileges?

_Fran._ Are not these large enough?

_Isab._ Yes, truly: I speak not as desiring more;
But rather wishing a more strict restraint
Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare. 5

_Lucio_ [_within_]. Ho! Peace be in this place!

_Isab._ Who's that which calls?

_Fran._ It is a man's voice. Gentle Isabella,
Turn you the key, and know his business of him;
Y