But that, to your sufficiency as your worth, is able;
And let them work. The nature of our people,
Our city's institutions, and the terms
For common justice, you are as pregnant in,
As art and practice hath enriched any
That we remember: There is our commission,
From which we would not have you warp."
Opening of Measure for Measure.
In Mr. Knight's edition, from which the foregoing passage is printed and pointed, the following note is appended to it:
"We encounter at the onset one of the obscure passages for which this play is remarkable. The text is usually pointed thus:—