"'Then no more remains
But that to your sufficiency, as your worth is able,
And let them work.'
It is certainly difficult to extract a clear meaning from this; and so Theobald and Hanmer assume that a line has dropped out, which they kindly restore to us, each in his own way."
After relating Steevens' attempt at elucidation, Mr. Knight proceeds to explain the passage by a running interpretation parenthetically applied to each expression; but I doubt very much whether any person would feel much enlightened by it; or whether, amongst so many explanations, any one of them could be pointed out less obscure than the rest.
Let us try, then, what a total change of interpretation will do.
In the sixth line of the Duke's speech, as quoted at the commencement, we find the demonstrative pronoun that, which must have some object. Mr. Knight supposes that object to be "your science." I, on the contrary, am of opinion that it refers to the commission which the Duke holds in his hand, and which he is in the act of presenting to Escalus:
"Then no more remains,
But—that, to your sufficiency, as your worth is able,
And let them work."