"Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister."
We might read 'In the meantime,' but there is no necessity whatever for change.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE.
Act I.
Sc. 1.
"Since I am put to know that your own science
Exceeds in that the lists of all advice
My strength can give you."
I know of no meaning 'put' has in English that will make any sense here. We must, then, regard it as a misprint; and as a negative is plainly wanting, I read not yet, the negative being, as so frequently, omitted, and 'put' printed for yet. "Why, brother Rivers, are you yet to learn?" (3 H. VI. iv. 4.) Pope read not for 'put.'