When, therefore, Claudio, who, as your correspondent LEGES observes, is aware of Angelo's reputation for sanctity, exclaims in astonishment:
"The prenzie Angelo?"
he means the same as if he had said:
"What! that Man in print?"
"The printsy Angelo?"
But prenzie is a term applied to apparel as well us to character; and how does this accord with the interpretation here given?
"O 'tis the cunning livery of hell,
The damned'st body to invest and cover
In prenzie guards!"
Here again we are supplied by Steevens with apt quotations in illustration from other writers of the same age: