If idle talk will once be accessary;
Neither is this better. I know not what to offer better than an easy explanation. That is, I will not eat, and if it will be necessary now for once to waste a moment in idle talk of my purpose, I will not sleep neither. In common conversation we often use will be, with as little relation to futurity. As, Now I am going, it will be fit for me to dine first.
V.ii.98 (254,2)
yet to imagine
An Antony, were Nature's piece 'gainst Fancy,
Condemning shadows quite]
[W: Nature's prize] In this passage I cannot discover any temptation to critical experiments. The word piece, is a term appropriated to works of art. Here Nature and Fancy produce each their piece, and the piece done by Nature had the preference. Antony was in reality past the size of dreaming; he was more by Nature than Fancy could present in sleep.
V.ii.121 (255,3) I cannot project mine own cause so well] [W: procter] Sir T. Hanmer reads,
I cannot parget my own cause—-
meaning, I cannot whitewash, varnish, or gloss my cause. I believe the present reading to be right. To project a cause is to represent a cause; to project it well, is to plan or contrive a scheme of defense.