"Is it not meant damnable in us to be trumpeters of our unlawful intents?"
Malone's first thought was most for 'meant.' Mr. Dyce proposes mean and; I think he is right, and have followed him. (See on Rom. and Jul. i. 3.)
"If I were to live this present hour."
The context seems to require die, not 'live'; so here, as elsewhere, we may happen to have a substitution of the contrary term. (See Introd. p. [66].)
"Or whether he thinks it were not possible."
This would seem to be one of the places where 'or' is for and.