But I know not how to apply the word in this sense to unity. I read,
If there be rule in purity itself,
Or, If there be rule in verity itself.
Such alterations would not offend the reader, who saw the state of the old editions, in which, for instance, a few lines lower, the almighty sun is called the almighty fenne.—Yet the words may at last mean, If there be certainty in unity, if it be a rule that one is one.
V.ii.144 (130,3) Bi-fold authority!] This is the reading of the quarto. The folio gives us,
By foul authority!—
There is madness in that disquisition in which a man reasons at once for and against himself upon authority which he knows not to be valid. The quarto is right.
V.ii.144 (130,4)
where reason can revolt
Without perdition, and loss assume all reason