!
And by an eminent body that enforced 20
The law against it! But that her tender shame
Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,
How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no;
For my authority bears of a credent bulk,
That no particular scandal once can touch 25
But it confounds the breather. He should have lived,
Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,
By so receiving a dishonour'd life
With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived! 30
Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not. [_Exit._

NOTES: IV, 4.

SCENE IV.] SCENE XII. Pope.
A room ... house.] Capell. The palace. Rowe.
2, sqq.: Angelo's speeches in this scene Collier prints as verse.
5: _redeliver_] Capell. _re-liver_] F1. _deliver_ F2 F3 F4.
13: A colon is put after _proclaim'd_ by Capell, who prints
lines 13-16 as verse.
19: _And_] om. Hanmer.
23: _dares her no;_] Ff. _dares her:_ Pope. _dares her: no,_ Hanmer.
_dares her No_ Warburton. _dares her? no:_ Capell.
_dares her note_ Theobald conj. _dares her not_ Steevens conj.
_dares her on_ Grant White (Becket conj.).
_reason ... no_] _treason dares her?--No_ Jackson conj.
24: _bears of a credent bulk_] F1 F2 F3.
_bears off a credent bulk_ F4. _bears off all credence_ Pope.
_bears a credent bulk_ Theobald.
_bears such a credent bulk_ Collier MS.
_here's of a credent bulk_ Singer. _bears so credent bulk_ Dyce.
_bears up a credent bulk_ Grant White.

SCENE V. _Fields without the town._

_Enter DUKE in his own habit, and FRIAR PETER._

_Duke._ These letters at fit time deliver me:
[_Giving letters._
The provost knows our purpose and our plot.
The matter being afoot, keep your instruction,
And hold you ever to our special drift;
Though sometimes you do blench from this to that, 5
As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius' house,
And tell him where I stay: give the like notice
To Valentius, Rowland, and to Crassus,
And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate;
But send me Flavius first.

_Fri. P._ It shall be speeded well. [_Exit._ 10

_Enter VARRIUS._

_Duke._ I thank thee, Varrius; thou hast made good haste:
Come, we will walk. There's other of our friends
W