"For which if I be lapsed in this place."

We should surely read latched, i.e. caught, taken. See on M. N. D. iii. 2. Mr. Hunter, I find, read as I do.


Sc. 4.

"He's coming, madam, but in a very strange manner."


"No dram of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple."

Surely the poet's word must have been ounce for the last 'scruple.'