III.ii.43 (306, 6) [For life I prize it As I weigh grief which I would spare] Life is to me now only grief, and as such only is considered by me, I would therefore willingly dismiss it.
III.ii.44 (306, 5) [I would spare] To spare any thing is to let it go. to quit the possession of it. (1773)
III.ii.49 (306, 7)
[Since he came,
With what encounter so uncurrent I
Have strain'd, to appear thus?]
These lines I do not understand; with the license of all editors, what I cannot understand I suppose unintelligible, and therefore propose that they may be altered thus,
————Since he came, With what encounter so uncurrent have I Been stain'd to appear thus.
At least I think it might be read,
With what encounter so uncurrent have I Strain'd to appear thus? If one Jet beyond. (see 1765, II,276,5)
III.ii.55 (307,8)
[I ne'er heard yet,
That any of those bolder vices wanted
Less impudence to gain—say what they did,
Than to perform it first]