Act I.

Sc. 1.

2 Cit. "Our business is not unknown to the Senate."

So it stands in the folio here and in the subsequent speeches; but as Malone rightly saw, it should be 1 Cit.


"But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture

To scale it a little more."

All attempts to make sense of 'scale' having been most complete failures, it only remains to read, with Theobald, stale.

"I'll not stale the jest

By my relation."