But he as he, each heavier for a whore.
Heavy is taken both for weighty, and for sad or miserable. The quarto reads,
But he as he, the heavier for a whore.
I know not whether the thought is not that of a wager. It must then be read thus:
But he as he. Which heavier for a whore?
That is, for a whore staked down, which is the heavier.
IV.i.78 (94,7) We'll not commend what we intend to sell] I believe the meaning is only this: though you practise the buyer's art, we will not practise the seller's. We intend to sell Helen dear, yet will not commend her.
IV.ii.62 (96,4) My matter is so rash] My business is so hasty and so abrupt.
IV.ii.74 (97,6) the secrets of neighbour Pandar] [Pope had emended the Folio's "secrets of nature" to the present reading] Mr. Pope's reading is in the old quarto. So great is the necessity of collation.
IV.iv.3 (99,1) The grief] The folio reads,